Best applicant tracking systems

We asked 10 models: The best applicant tracking systems for recruiting. Each named its own top 10.

Asked 4 ways: List request · Buyer asking for advice · Search query · Worth paying for?. Share of voice pools every wording.

Agreement between models
80%
Same model, run twice
86%
Different picks
17

When agreement between models is well below a model's agreement with itself, the split reflects real differences in taste rather than randomness.

The consensus

Each cell is the position that model gave the pick; blank means it left the pick off. Click a row for each model's reasoning.

#PickScoreListed byClaude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra

2 lower-scoring picks are not shown; every ballot below lists them in full.

Most divisive

Picks most models listed, at very different positions

Hot takes

Picks that appear on only one ballot

Every ballot

Hover a pick to find it on the other ballots. Marked picks appear on no other ballot.

Claude Haiku 5.5

  1. Greenhouse
  2. Lever
  3. Workday
  4. iCIMS
  5. SmartRecruiters
  6. Ashby
  7. Jobvite
  8. SAP SuccessFactors
  9. Workable
  10. Bullhorn

87% with consensus · 86% self-consistent

GPT-6 Luna

  1. Greenhouse
  2. Lever
  3. Workday
  4. Ashby
  5. iCIMS
  6. SmartRecruiters
  7. Jobvite
  8. BambooHR
  9. JazzHR
  10. Breezy HR

84% with consensus · 91% self-consistent

Gemini 4 Argon

  1. Greenhouse
  2. Lever
  3. Ashby
  4. Workable
  5. iCIMS
  6. SmartRecruiters
  7. JazzHR
  8. BambooHR
  9. Bullhorn
  10. Pinpoint

81% with consensus · 89% self-consistent

Qwen 3.8 Flash

  1. Greenhouse
  2. Workday
  3. Lever
  4. iCIMS
  5. SmartRecruiters
  6. Ashby
  7. Bullhorn
  8. SAP SuccessFactors
  9. JazzHR
  10. BambooHR

81% with consensus · 80% self-consistent

DeepSeek V4 Pro

  1. Greenhouse
  2. Lever
  3. JazzHR
  4. Breezy HR
  5. Workday
  6. SmartRecruiters
  7. Workable
  8. iCIMS
  9. Recruitee
  10. BambooHR

77% with consensus · 81% self-consistent

GLM-5.3

  1. Greenhouse
  2. Lever
  3. Workday
  4. iCIMS
  5. Ashby
  6. SmartRecruiters
  7. JazzHR
  8. BambooHR
  9. Jobvite
  10. Breezy HR

88% with consensus · 91% self-consistent

Kimi K3

  1. Greenhouse
  2. Lever
  3. iCIMS
  4. SmartRecruiters
  5. Ashby
  6. Workday
  7. Workable
  8. BambooHR
  9. JazzHR
  10. Teamtailor

97% with consensus · 83% self-consistent

MiniMax M3

  1. Greenhouse
  2. Lever
  3. SmartRecruiters
  4. Ashby
  5. iCIMS
  6. Workday
  7. Workable
  8. BambooHR
  9. JazzHR
  10. Recruitee

90% with consensus · 85% self-consistent

Mistral Large 4

  1. Greenhouse
  2. Lever
  3. Workday
  4. Ashby
  5. SmartRecruiters
  6. Workable
  7. iCIMS
  8. BambooHR
  9. Taleo
  10. Recruitee

84% with consensus · 93% self-consistent

Nemotron 3 Ultra

  1. Greenhouse
  2. Lever
  3. iCIMS
  4. SmartRecruiters
  5. Workable
  6. BambooHR
  7. Jobvite
  8. JazzHR
  9. Workday
  10. Recruitee

90% with consensus · 83% self-consistent

Who agrees with whom

Overlap between two models' lists, weighted toward the top · 100 means identical · Color runs from 66 (lightest) to 95 (darkest)

Claude Haiku 5.5GPT-6 LunaGemini 4 ArgonQwen 3.8 FlashDeepSeek V4 ProGLM-5.3Kimi K3MiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Nemotron 3 Ultra
Claude Haiku 5.5917688729285828780
GPT-6 Luna918283749584879177
Gemini 4 Argon768270728183868280
Qwen 3.8 Flash888370668579768070
DeepSeek V4 Pro727472667674757672
GLM-5.3929581857687848879
Kimi K3858483797487938589
MiniMax M3828786767584938883
Mistral Large 4879182807688858876
Nemotron 3 Ultra807780707279898376