SeekOut Recruit
Strongest at mid-market, contested with Lessie AI. Ranked 12 of 99 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Pin is first at 14%.
Ranked first, contested: Lessie AI has 13%. 8 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Eightfold AI is first at 69%.
Why models recommend it
“SeekOut: Excellent for sourcing intelligence, diversity, and market mapping. Strong external data + ATS integration. Good for recruiting-heavy needs; often praised for mid-market pricing and ease.”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“I'd lean SeekOut—because mid-market companies often need the strongest balance of candidate discovery, team usability, and practical recruiting workflows”GPT-5.4 mini · Direct question · first choice
“1. SeekOut - *Best Overall Value* ... Start with SeekOut if you're primarily focused on sourcing and talent discovery”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Direct question · first choice
“Start with SeekOut or Pin if your primary need is sourcing intelligence at a reasonable price point.”Kimi K2 · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid enterprise-heavy options like Eightfold AI, SeekOut, Beamery”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Many talent intelligence tools (e.g., those from SeekOut, Beamery, Phenom, Gloat, Censia, Findem, Visier, or LinkedIn Talent Insights) aggregate data from public sources”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“SeekOut has notable limitations, such as inconsistent contact data quality and some profiles lacking usable emails”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Sourcing platforms such as SeekOut, hireEZ, and Findem if contact accuracy and data provenance are critical.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as SeekOut Recruit, over the 130 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 119 | 46 | Compare → | |
| 76 | 1 | View → | |
| 74 | 0 | View → | |
| 73 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 52 | 1 | View → | |
| 43 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 32 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 28 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 28 | 1 | View → | |
| 27 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of SeekOut Recruit →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 121 of the 130 answers that named SeekOut Recruit and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
372 of the 397 domain citations in answers naming SeekOut Recruit came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 131 | 2 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Report or ebook | 28 | 0 | 2024-12-17 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 15 | 0 | 2025-03-07 | ||
| Comparison | 7 | 1 | 2026-09-01 | ||
| Case study | 1 | 0 | 2024-01-11 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | 0 | 2024-02-13 | ||
| News or press | 1 | 0 | 2026-03-28 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-18Seekout talent intelligence agent blog
- 2026-09-09Seekout now in microsoft 365 copilot blog
- 2026-09-01X-Ray search vs. SeekOut search | SeekOut Help Center comparison
- 2026-06-24Seekout now an app in chatgpt run your whole recruiting workflow in one chat blog
- 2026-06-16Agentic ai recruiting leveled up with seekout blog
- 2026-06-11Introducing seekout recruit core enterprise grade ai sourcing built for small teams blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page seekout.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.