2 categories · Named, not rankedThe Cognitive
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. The Cognitive has 4.
Why models recommend it
“SeekOut & The Cognitive excel at finding hidden talent and screening with AI.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“Good for finding specific people with AI-powered search”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as The Cognitive, over the 8 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 2 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → |
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.
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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 8 of the 8 answers that named The Cognitive and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-one of the twenty-nine domain citations in answers naming The Cognitive 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | 243 | 89 | 2026-09-21 | Applicant tracking syste | |
| Blog | 160 | 72 | 2026-09-21 | Recruiting CRM, Applicant tracking syste | |
| Glossary or explainer | 31 | 31 | 2026-09-21 | Talent intelligence, Applicant tracking syste | |
| Case study | 14 | 6 | 2026-08-04 | ||
| Report or ebook | 4 | 4 | 2026-09-21 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 3 | 2026-09-21 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-21Roi calculator template or tool
- 2026-09-21Full cycle recruiting automation blog
- 2026-09-21Compare comparison
- 2026-09-21Alternatives comparison
- 2026-09-21Sourcing and ai interviewing platforms comparison
- 2026-09-21Best ai recruiting software comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page thecognitive.io 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.