Edition 01 · September 2026
September 2026 Edition
Published September 15, 2026. This page is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition: the standing of every category as measured in it, under vendor table v2026-09-16.3. It is also the edition the site carries now.
73 categories · 12 models · 438 prompts · 5,256 answers · 34,585 judge labels, all published
The leaderboard
The first choice in all 73 categories · 54 unsettledShare is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models. Each row opens that category's page for this edition.What the verdicts mean
GTM data and infrastructure
Tag managementSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Sales
Sales intelligence and contact dataSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
GTM data and infrastructure
Data enrichmentSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Marketing
Programmatic and display advertisingSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Marketing
Video marketing and hostingSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
LobContested
GTM data and infrastructure
Customer data platformsSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Customer
Customer support and helpdeskSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
GTM data and infrastructure
Data warehouse and reverse ETL for marketingOne leader in all three segments
GTM data and infrastructure
Workflow automation and iPaaSMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Customer
Chatbots and conversational AI for supportMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Revenue operations
CRM data quality and deduplicationSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Marketing
Experimentation and personalizationSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
VWOContested
GTM data and infrastructure
Product analyticsMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Marketing
Attribution and marketing mix modelingSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
GTM data and infrastructure
Email verificationMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Marketing
Review and reputation managementMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Revenue operations
Contract lifecycle management and e-signatureSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Marketing
SEO and content optimization platformsSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Marketing
Loyalty, advocacy and referralsSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Marketing
Native and content advertisingMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Customer
In-app messaging and customer communicationsMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Marketing
AI visibility and answer engine tracking toolsSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Marketing
Retail, proximity and IoT marketingMid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Customer
Knowledge base and self-serviceSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
GTM data and infrastructure
Data management platformsSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
GTM data and infrastructure
Customer intelligence and data scienceSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Marketing
Search and social advertising platformsSmall business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
The record
Every prompt, every answer with its version string and search flag, every raw judge label, and the vendor table the edition was scored under. Free to download and free to cite.
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Raw judge labels
One row per named product, with the name exactly as written and a verbatim evidence quote.
34.4 MB
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Full responses
Every call with its full answer text, timestamp, version string, search flag, cited URLs, latency and token counts.
90.6 MB
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Vendor table v2026-09-16.3
Canonical names, aliases, category-scoped readings, exclusions and the change log.
922 KB
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Prompts
Every prompt verbatim: six variants across 73 categories for each buyer segment, 438 per segment. Each prompt carries its set; the September 2026 mid-market set, asked as a B2B software company, is kept under its own ids beside the current one.
821 KB
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Model set
Pinned models, endpoints, search tools and list prices as of the edition.
12 KB
Markdown
Edition report
The derived report for the edition, including the appendix on loose paraphrase stability.
636 KB
Markdown
Data dictionary
What each column of the record means, how to reproduce any share on the site, the license and the citation. The same file ships in the pack.
4 KB
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Calibration repeat: judge labels
The same prompts asked again on September 15, 2026 with nothing changed, over 20 categories. One row per named product, as in the edition file.
3.5 MB
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Calibration repeat: full responses
Every call of the repeat with its full answer text, timestamp, version string, search flag, cited URLs, latency and token counts.
8.3 MB
Markdown
Calibration report
The derived report for the repeat, the per-model flip rates behind the noise floor.
66 KB
Cite this edition
GTM AI Recommendation Index, September 2026 Edition. gtm-ai-index.com. Scored under vendor table v2026-09-16.3.