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Client onboarding platforms · October 2026 Edition

ClickUp vs Dock

Zero of fourteen models named ClickUp first on the direct prompt; zero named Dock. ClickUp was named by twelve of the fourteen models and Dock by fourteen and ClickUp carries 29 labels and Dock 40, so the shares are not directly comparable.

ClickUp

accepted challenger

San Diego, United States, founded 2016. Named in seven categories this edition.

Dock

accepted challenger

San Francisco, United States, founded 2021. Named in eight categories this edition.

First-choice share11%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate17%5%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#5A position in a field of 15; printed, not drawn.
Labels2940A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, ClickUp reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Rocketlane was named alongside these two in fourteen of the fourteen direct answers. Rocketlane vs ClickUp · Rocketlane vs Dock · GUIDEcx vs ClickUp

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the client onboarding platforms page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
ClickUpFirst choices, of fourteen modelsDock
Direct001 against Dock
Paraphrase002 against ClickUp
Comparative00
Budget-constrained51
Scale-constrained00
Negative103 against ClickUp · 1 against Dock
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where ClickUp and Dock stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
ClickUp Dock first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, ClickUp on the left and Dock on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where ClickUp and Dock stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

3 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 FlashRocketlane alternatives: Appcues, Dock, GUIDEcx, OnRamp, Pendo, Userpilot
Perplexity SonarRocketlane alternatives: Appcues, Dock, GUIDEcx, Userpilot
Kimi K2OnRamp alternatives: Arrows, Dock, Rocketlane

Neither was named

11 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5OnRamp alternatives: GUIDEcx, HubSpot, Rocketlane
GPT-5.4 miniRocketlane alternatives: GUIDEcx, Planhat
Grok 4.1 FastRocketlane alternatives: Appcues, GUIDEcx
Mistral SmallGUIDEcx alternatives: Precursive, Rocketlane
DeepSeek V4 FlashRocketlane alternatives: GUIDEcx, OnRamp
Llama 4 MaverickGUIDEcx alternatives: OnRamp, Precursive, Rocketlane
Qwen 3.7 FlashGUIDEcx alternatives: Appcues, Rocketlane
GLM 4.7 FlashXRocketlane alternatives: Appcues, GUIDEcx
MiniMax M2.5GUIDEcx alternatives: Rocketlane
GPT-6 LunaRocketlane alternatives: GUIDEcx, OnRamp
Muse Glimmer 30BGUIDEcx, Rocketlane alternatives: OnRamp

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Dock leads by eight points.
Dock18%#1 of 21
ClickUp10%#3 of 21
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: ClickUp leads at mid-market.
ClickUp11%#3 of 15
Dock2%#5 of 15
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
ClickUp0%#– of 13
Dock0%#9 of 13
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about ClickUp

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.

“Tools like Jira or ClickUp are built for internal developers or project managers—not external clients.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“These are general project management tools, not onboarding platforms” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“The best client onboarding platform for a company with a limited budget is ClickUp, which offers a free plan and paid plans starting at $7/user/month.” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Dock

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.