6 categories · RankedWellfound
Wellfound is a recruiting platform and talent marketplace for startups, used to post jobs, receive applicants and manage hiring at any stage · wellfound.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“Startup/Tech roles | Wellfound | Audience specifically looking for startup culture and equity.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Combine Recruit'em ... + Apollo.io Chrome Extension ... + Wellfound”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Choose Wellfound if you're a tech startup looking for developers/designers”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“If you're a startup hiring on Wellfound, start there instead”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Why to Avoid: Newer users often report a hostile onboarding experience.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Wellfound, over the 39 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 15 | View → | |
| 22 | 3 | View → | |
| 19 | 7 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 2 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 2 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Wellfound's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Startups hiring at every stage, from a first engineering hire to scaling whole teams, and candidates who want to work at high-growth companies.
- Price stated
- Unlimited jobs, unlimited applicants, and a built-in ATS are $0 forever. Promoting a job for extra visibility is optional and paid, as are Wellfound Reach (AI sourcing) and Autopilot (managed hiring).
- Starting price
- $0 forever
- Free plan or trial
- Yes. Creating a profile and applying to jobs on Wellfound is always free for candidates.
- Customers named
- Chime, Cognition, Oklo, Zipline, Lovable, Notion, Stripe, ModernHealth
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 35 of the 39 answers that named Wellfound and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-six of the eighty-two domain citations in answers naming Wellfound 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 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 353 | 4 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Comparison | 4 | 0 | 2024-04-10 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | undated | |||
| Case study | 1 | 0 | 2023-04-04 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-17Wellfound reach mcp ai assistant blog
- 2026-09-17Company updates blog
- 2026-07-22Skills based hiring why job titles fail blog
- 2026-07-22Hiring blog
- 2026-04-23Best ai recruiting tools for technical hiring in 2026 blog
- 2026-04-20Best ai sourcing tools startup hiring blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page wellfound.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. Read September 29, 2026.