GTM AI Index
September 2026 Edition · The permanent record of this edition. The unqualified address always carries the latest edition.
Index GTM data and infrastructure DMP › Enterprise September 2026 Edition

Data management platforms for enterprise buyers

Asked as “data management platform for audiences”, and as “DMP”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 60 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Contested
20% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Salesforce Data Cloud20%15%27accepted challenger
02Adobe Real-Time CDP12%12%25accepted challenger
03Tealium8%7%14accepted challenger
04Adobe Audience Manager7%33%12criticized challenger
05Hightouch5%0%16accepted challenger
06ActionIQ5%10%10accepted challenger
07Treasure Data3%0%12accepted challenger
08Snowflake2%30%20criticized challenger
Show the five products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
13Segment0%50%14criticized challenger
12Collibra0%25%12criticized challenger
09Databricks0%20%15accepted challenger
11BigQuery0%15%13accepted challenger
10Alation0%10%10accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative40%
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01Salesforce Data Cloud20%
02Adobe Real-Time CDP12%
03Tealium8%
04Adobe Audience Manager7%
05Hightouch5%
06ActionIQ5%
07Treasure Data3%
08Snowflake2%
09Databricks0%
10Alation0%
11BigQuery0%
12Collibra0%
13Segment0%

02What they warned about

Zero of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. 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 and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Segment
50%
7 of 14 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Avoid for predictability: Twilio Segment/mParticle (per-MTU, spikes with growth)” Grok 4.1 Fast, budget prompt
mParticle
71%
5 of 7 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Platforms to Avoid for Predictability - **mParticle** - Credit-based consumption model that scales unpredictably” Mistral Small, budget prompt
Snowflake
30%
6 of 20 labels negative · 5 of 12 models
“**Snowflake** when the workload is **transactional**, **real-time operational**, or the dataset is relatively small enough that a simpler database has lower total cost” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt
Oracle BlueKai
71%
5 of 7 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“**Oracle BlueKai** – End of life September 30, 2024 (Oracle exited advertising entirely)” Kimi K2, paraphrase prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: four of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

22 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 4 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 5 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 219 links across 123 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. The other 8 models searched through a gateway that returned no source list on this edition.

vendor site · Improvado8 answers · 12 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Domo7 answers · 7 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Gartner6 answers · 8 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Matillion6 answers · 7 citations · 2 models
6 answers · 6 citations · 2 models
5 answers · 7 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Decentriq5 answers · 5 citations · 2 models
vendor site · HubSpot4 answers · 4 citations · 1 model
4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
vendor site · ZoomInfo4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
3 answers · 3 citations · 1 model

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best data management platform for audiences for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which DMP would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade data management platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best data management platform for audiences for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a data management platform for audiences. What should we look at?”Negative“Which data management platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Oracle Unity, Tealium, ZoomInfo
One alternativeCognism
Informatica Intelligent Data Management CloudChanged
Three alternativesAdobe Audience Manager, Oracle BlueKai, Palantir Foundry
no first choiceTreasure Data
Two alternativesAdobe Real-Time CDP, Salesforce Customer 360 Audiences
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniAdobe Real-Time CDP B2B Edition
Two alternativesHightouch, Salesforce Data Cloud
Adobe Audience ManagerChanged
Two alternativesOracle Data Cloud / BlueKai, Salesforce Data Cloud
Databricks Lakehouse / Unity Catalog, Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
Five alternativesAlation, Collibra, Google Cloud BigQuery / Lakehouse, IBM Cloud Pak for Data / Watson-based governance stack, Snowflake Data Cloud
against: Talend
Oracle Unity Data Platform / Oracle CX Audienceagainst: Adobe Audience Managerno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashAdobe Real-Time CDP, Salesforce Data Cloud
Three alternatives6sense, Demandbase, Hightouch
6sense, Adobe Real-Time CDP, Demandbase, Salesforce Data CloudChanged
Four alternativesCensus, Databricks, Hightouch, Snowflake
against: Oracle's advertising suite, Salesforce Audience Studio/Krux
Databricks, Snowflake
Eight alternativesAlation, Atlan, Collibra, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Purview, Profisee, Reltio, Semarchy
against: Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud
Hightouch
Three alternativesGrowthLoop, Meiro, Tealium
against: Adobe Real-Time CDP, Salesforce Data Cloud, Segment
Census, Hightouch, RudderStackagainst: ActionIQ, Amperity, Segment, Tealiumagainst: Adobe Audience Manager, Adobe Campaign Classic, Adobe Real-Time CDP, Cloudera/Hortonworks, Informatica PowerCenter, Legacy IBM InfoSphere, Oracle BlueKai, Salesforce Audience Studio & Advertising Studio, Salesforce Data Cloud
Perplexity SonarActionIQ, Adobe Real-Time CDP, Salesforce Data Cloud
Two alternativesTealium, Treasure Data
Adobe Audience Manager, Adobe Real-Time CDPChanged
Two alternativesInformatica IDMC, Salesforce Data Cloud
Collibra, Informatica IDMC / MDM
Six alternativesAlation, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric / Purview, Reltio, Semarchy xDM, Snowflake
Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Power BI
Three alternativesAdobe Audience Manager, Adobe Real-Time CDP, Informatica IDMC
against: Snowflake
no first choiceagainst: AWS, Azure, Cassandra, Databricks, Snowflake
Grok 4.1 FastOracle Unity, Salesforce Data Cloud
Two alternativesTreasure Data, ZoomInfo
Adobe Audience Manager, Lotame SphericalChanged
Two alternativesAdobe Real-Time CDP, Salesforce Data Cloud
against: Oracle BlueKai, Salesforce Audience Studio
no first choiceSnowflake
Eight alternativesActionIQ, GrowthLoop, Hightouch, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, Salesforce Data Cloud, Simon Data, Tealium, Treasure Data
against: BigQuery, Segment, mParticle
Adobe Audience Manager
Three alternativesLotame, Salesforce Audience Studio, Snowflake
against: Collibra, Databricks, IBM, Informatica IDMC, Oracle BlueKai, SQL Server 2016, Salesforce Data Cloud, Talend, Teradata
Mistral SmallAdobe Real-Time CDP, Demandbase
Three alternatives6sense, Salesforce Data Cloud, ZoomInfo Marketing OS
Microsoft PurviewChanged
Two alternativesOneTrust, Vanta
Snowflake Data Cloud
Four alternativesCollibra Data Intelligence Platform, Databricks Lakehouse, Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud, Microsoft Azure Purview
Salesforce Data Cloud, Tealium
Two alternativesActionIQ, Adobe Real-Time CDP
against: Amperity, Segment, mParticle
no first choiceagainst: Alation, BigQuery, Collibra, Databricks, Fivetran, IBM InfoSphere, Informatica IDMC, Matillion, OvalEdge, SAP Master Data Management, Snowflake
DeepSeek V4 FlashHightouch, Salesforce Data Cloud
Three alternativesActionIQ, Adobe Real-Time CDP, ZoomInfo
Salesforce Data CloudChanged
Four alternativesActionIQ, Adobe Real-Time CDP, Hightouch, Treasure Data
against: Adobe Audience Manager
Informatica, Informatica IDMC
Fourteen alternativesAlation, Atlan, BigQuery, Collibra, Databricks, Denodo Platform, Informatica CDGC, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Purview, Profisee, Reltio, Semarchy, Snowflake, Stibo Systems
against: Apache Atlas
ActionIQ, Tealiumagainst: Adobe Real-Time CDP, Salesforce Data Cloud, Segment, mParticleno first choiceagainst: Adobe Audience Manager, Dynamics GP, Oracle BlueKai, Oracle BlueKai DMP, SAP ECC/Business Suite 7, Salesforce Audience Studio, Snowflake, Talend MDM
Llama 4 MaverickAmplemarketno first choiceChanged
One alternativeAdobe Audience Manager
no first choiceno first choiceno first choiceagainst: IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Informatica, Matillion, Microsoft Purview, SAP Master Data Governance
Qwen 3.7 FlashSalesforce Customer 360 Audiences
Four alternativesAdobe Real-Time CDP, GWI, Omna by Stirista, ZoomInfo
Salesforce Data CloudChanged
Two alternativesAdobe Real-Time CDP, Informatica
Databricks, Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services, Snowflake
Nine alternativesAlation, BigQuery, Collibra, Fivetran, IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Microsoft Purview, Reltio, SAP Master Data Governance, Semarchy
ActionIQ, Tealium
Four alternativesBlueConic, Census, Hightouch, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights
against: Bloomreach, Segment, mParticle
no first choiceagainst: Alteryx, Collibra, Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services, Oracle Data Integrator, Pentaho, Talend, Unmanaged Custom Scripts
Kimi K2Salesforce Data Cloud
Five alternatives6sense, Adobe Real-Time CDP, Demandbase, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, Treasure Data
Adobe Real-Time CDPChanged
Three alternativesLotame Panorama, Permutive, Salesforce Data Cloud
against: Oracle BlueKai, Salesforce Audience Studio
Databricks, Snowflake
Seven alternativesAmazon Redshift, Azure Synapse, BigQuery, IBM Cloud Pak for Data / InfoSphere MDM, Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud, Microsoft Fabric, SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) + Datasphere
Tealium, Treasure Data
Three alternativesHightouch, RudderStack, Salesforce Data Cloud
against: Segment, mParticle
no first choice
Three alternativesSegment, Tealium, mParticle
against: Cloudera, IBM InfoSphere / Db2 Ecosystem, Informatica
GLM 4.7 FlashXAdobe Real-Time CDP, Salesforce Data Cloud
Two alternativesSegment, ZoomInfo
Informatica Intelligent Data Management CloudChanged
Five alternatives6sense, Abmatic AI, Demandbase, IBM InfoSphere, ZoomInfo Marketing
Databricks Lakehouse, Snowflake Data Cloud
Four alternativesAlation, Collibra, Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud, Microsoft Purview
against: Apache Atlas
Untitled AI
Four alternativesGWI, Modash, Peliqan, Tealium Data Cloud Activation
against: GrowthLoop
no first choiceagainst: ManageEngine Products, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Salesforce Agentforce, Salesforce ecosystem, ServiceNow AI Agents, Snowflake
MiniMax M2.56sense, ZoomInfo
Four alternativesAmplemarket, Apollo.io, Cognism, Demandbase
Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud, Salesforce Data CloudChanged
Two alternativesIBM InfoSphere, Palantir Foundry
BigQuery, Snowflake Data Cloud
Four alternativesCollibra, Databricks, Reltio, Semarchy
against: Informatica
Tealium Data Cloud Activation
Four alternativesActionIQ, Hightouch, Tealium, Treasure Data
Salesforce Data Cloud
Three alternativesActionIQ, Adobe Real-Time CDP, Tealium
against: Big Data/Hadoop Environments, Oracle E-Business Suite, Snowflake
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 03:40yes88 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-14 23:27yes35 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-14 23:56yes1225 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 03:19yes2021 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 04:01yes011 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:56yes011 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-14 23:23yes046 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 02:26yes02 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 00:15yes028 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 04:15yes052 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 03:28yes0263 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 22:53yes020 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 00:56yes89 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-14 23:48yes44 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 02:25yes919 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 00:26yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 03:53yes010 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 01:08no03 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 04:44yes020 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:27yes01 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-14 23:12yes032 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 04:29yes042 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 02:07yes078 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 03:35yes015 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 00:07yes1411 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:39yes210 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 00:52yes2228 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 00:00yes2012 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 04:26yes09 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 01:19yes010 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 02:57yes035 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 00:36yes02 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 04:46yes031 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 03:26yes078 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 01:18yes068 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 00:21yes018 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 00:38yes128 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:39yes34 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 01:07yes2530 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 00:05yes205 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 00:51yes012 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 00:16yes015 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 02:57yes045 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 02:53yes02 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 02:29yes085 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 02:42yes039 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 02:27yes0119 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 02:58yes093 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 01:51yes1614 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:13yes05 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 05:00no017 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 04:28yes209 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 02:53yes08 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:07no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 03:49yes058 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:34yes01 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:24yes069 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 04:27yes046 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 03:42yes051 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 04:02yes020 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 00:18yes2310 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:03yes65 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-14 22:53yes1821 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 02:41yes208 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 00:05yes011 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 05:04yes015 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-14 23:07yes026 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:27yes03 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 04:29no043 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 03:59yes068 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:47yes041 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 22:54yes030 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
Fabric read as Microsoft Fabric
Oracle read as Oracle BlueKai
Salesforce read as Salesforce Audience Studio
Unresolved, counted raw
Adobe Campaign Classic
Amazon Redshift / AWS analytics stack
Apache Gravitino
Apache Iceberg
Azure
Azure Data Factory
Big Data/Hadoop Environments
Boomi Data Hub
Cloudera/Hortonworks
Collibra Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks Lakehouse / Unity Catalog
Databricks Unity Catalog
Dynamics GP
Google Cloud BigQuery / Lakehouse
IBM Cloud Pak for Data / InfoSphere MDM
IBM Cloud Pak for Data / Watson-based governance stack
IBM InfoSphere / Db2 Ecosystem
Informatica IDMC / MDM
K2View
Legacy IBM InfoSphere
Lotame Panorama
ManageEngine Products
Microsoft Azure Purview
Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
Omna by Stirista
Oracle BlueKai DMP
Oracle BlueKai Data Management Platform
Oracle Data Cloud / BlueKai
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI)
Oracle Fusion Unity CDP
Oracle Unity Data Platform / Oracle CX Audience
Oracle's advertising suite
Pure Storage Atlas
Real-Time Customer Data Platform (CDP)
Rimes
SAP ECC/Business Suite 7
SAP Master Data Governance (MDG) + Datasphere
SAP Master Data Management
SQL Server 2016
Salesforce Audience Studio & Advertising Studio
Salesforce Audience Studio/Krux
ServiceNow AI Agents
Snowflake Horizon
Talend MDM
Unity Catalog
Unmanaged Custom Scripts
Untitled AI
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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