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Index GTM data and infrastructure DMP › Small business September 2026 Edition

Data management platforms for small business buyers

Asked as “data management platform for audiences”, and as “DMP”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 50 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Contested
16% 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 a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Segment16%21%24accepted challenger
02HubSpot12%11%19accepted challenger
03Apollo.io12%0%11accepted challenger
04RudderStack4%0%12accepted challenger
05Hightouch2%10%10accepted challenger
Show the eight products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
13Adobe Audience Manager0%69%13criticized challenger
12Salesforce Audience Studio0%55%11criticized challenger
11BigQuery0%20%10accepted challenger
09Snowflake0%19%16accepted challenger
10Tableau0%9%11accepted challenger
06Fivetran0%0%14accepted challenger
08Microsoft Power BI0%0%13accepted challenger
07dbt0%0%12accepted 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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0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative30%
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01Segment16%
02HubSpot12%
03Apollo.io12%
04RudderStack4%
05Hightouch2%
06Fivetran0%
07dbt0%
08Microsoft Power BI0%
09Snowflake0%
10Tableau0%
11BigQuery0%
12Salesforce Audience Studio0%
13Adobe Audience Manager0%

02What they warned about

Two of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, 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.
Collibra
100%
8 of 8 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“without top-down enforcement, policies are ignored and the platform becomes shelfware. For small teams with fewer than 100 employees, stewardship overhead can exceed ROI.” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
Alation
100%
5 of 5 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Full enterprise governance suites (Collibra, Informatica IDMC, Alation) for small teams ... the ROI is minimal” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
mParticle
71%
5 of 7 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Avoid mParticle/Braze/Adobe/Salesforce enterprise suites at this stage” DeepSeek V4 Flash, scale prompt
Salesforce Data Cloud
75%
6 of 8 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid for Small B2B: Enterprise platforms like Salesforce Data Cloud ($$$)” Mistral Small, direct 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

20 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. 196 links across 106 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 · 11 citations · 2 models
7 answers · 10 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Matillion6 answers · 7 citations · 2 models
5 answers · 5 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Domo4 answers · 5 citations · 2 models
vendor site · ClicData4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Estuary4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Gartner3 answers · 7 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Capterra3 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
vendor site · ZoomInfo3 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Alation3 answers · 3 citations · 2 models
3 answers · 3 citations · 2 models

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 a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which DMP would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top data management platforms for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best data management platform for audiences for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a data management platform for audiences. What should we look at?”Negative“Which data management platforms should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Delve AILeadspace CDPChanged
One alternativeOracle CX Marketing Suite
Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt
Two alternativesAtlan, Domo
Airtable
One alternativeSquadata
no first choiceagainst: Collibra, SAP Datasphere
GPT-5.4 miniHubSpot Customer Platform
Two alternativesHightouch, Segment
against: Bloomreach, Treasure Data, mParticle
Adobe Real-Time CDP B2B EditionChangedagainst: Adobe Audience ManagerMicrosoft Dataverse for Teams, Microsoft Lists
Four alternativesDatabricks, Microsoft Dataverse, Microsoft Fabric / OneLake, Microsoft Purview
RudderStack
One alternativeHightouch
no first choiceagainst: IBM, Informatica, Reltio, SAP, Stibo, Tamr
Gemini 3.5 FlashHubSpot
Five alternativesApollo.io, Census, Dreamdata, Hightouch, Ortto
against: Adobe Audience Manager, Salesforce Audience Studio
Apollo.ioChanged
Four alternativesDreamdata, HubSpot CRM Suite, Segment, UpLead
against: Adobe Audience Manager, Oracle BlueKai, Salesforce Audience Studio
Airtable
Six alternativesAble CDP, Baserow, Klaviyo, MotherDuck, RudderStack, Supabase
against: Adobe Real-Time CDP, BigQuery, Segment, Snowflake
HubSpot, Klaviyo
Seven alternativesBrevo, Census, Google Ads Audience Manager, Hightouch, Meta Events Manager / Custom Audiences, RudderStack, Segment
against: Adobe Audience Manager, Adobe Real-Time CDP, Oracle BlueKai, Salesforce Data Cloud
Census, Hightouch
Six alternativesCustomer.io, HubSpot, Klaviyo, RudderStack, Salesforce Audience Studio, Zeotap
against: Segment
against: Adobe Audience Manager, Collibra, Google Sheets/Excel, Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud, Microsoft Access, OneTrust, Oracle BlueKai, SAP Master Data Governance, Salesforce Audience Studio, Segment, TIBCO EBX, Talend Data Fabric, Tealium, TrustArc, mParticle
Perplexity SonarApollo.io
One alternativeZoho Marketing+
against: Adobe Real-Time CDP, Salesforce Data Cloud, ZoomInfo
Lotame, PermutiveChangedFivetran
Seven alternativesAirtable, ClicData, DBeaver, Microsoft Power BI, Snowflake, Tableau, dbt
against: Ataccama, Collibra, Informatica
ClicData
Two alternativesAtroCore, DBeaver Community
no first choiceagainst: Alation, Amazon Redshift, Atlan, Collibra, Domo, Informatica IDMC, Microsoft Purview
Grok 4.1 FastSegment
Three alternativesHightouch, HubSpot, RudderStack
against: BlueConic, Salesforce Data Cloud
SegmentHeld
Two alternativesGoogle Marketing Platform, OnAudience DMP
BigQuery, Snowflake
Six alternativesAirbyte, Amazon Redshift Serverless, Fivetran, Hevo, Looker Studio, dbt
against: Informatica
RudderStack
One alternativeSegment
against: Klaviyo, Snowplow, mParticle
no first choiceagainst: Alation, Collibra, Informatica IDMC, SAP Master Data Governance, Salesforce Data Cloud, Snowflake
Mistral SmallSalespanel
Four alternativesAmplemarket, Apollo.io, Dealfront, HubSpot Breeze Intelligence
against: Salesforce Data Cloud
HubSpot Marketing HubChanged
Four alternativesPipedrive, Salesforce Audience Studio, Zoho Analytics, Zoho CRM
Airbyte, Fivetran
Three alternativesHevo, Snowflake, dbt
RudderStack Community Edition
Four alternativesJitsu, RudderStack Cloud, Segment, Tracardi
no first choiceagainst: MCH Strategic Data, Talend
DeepSeek V4 FlashHubSpot Breeze Intelligence
Three alternativesApollo.io, Dealfront, Visitor Queue
against: 6sense, Bombora, Demandbase, ZoomInfo
AdRoll ABM, Factors.ai, SegmentChanged
Two alternativesHightouch, HubSpot
Airtable
Ten alternativesAirbyte, Coginiti, Definite, Fivetran, Hevo, Monday.com, Notion, Panoply, Stitch, dbt
Brevo
Three alternativesKlaviyo, RudderStack, Segment
against: Census, Hightouch
Customer.io, HubSpot, Klaviyo
Four alternativesHightouch, Maestra, RudderStack, Segment
against: Adobe Real-Time CDP, Bloomreach, Braze, Insider, MoEngage, Salesforce Audience Studio, mParticle
against: CrashPlan, IBM InfoSphere, MongoDB, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce Audience Studio, Zoho
Llama 4 MaverickAmplemarketno first choiceChangedno first choiceClicData
Two alternativesIBM InfoSphere, OnAudience.com Data Management Platform
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashApollo.io, HubSpot
Three alternativesCapsule CRM, Coffee, Dealfront
against: Segment, ZoomInfo
HubSpotChanged
Four alternativesApollo.io, Dealfront, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, ZoomInfo
against: Adobe Audience Manager, Lotame, The Trade Desk
ClicData, Fivetran
Three alternativesMicrosoft Fabric, Snowflake, dbt
Segment
Three alternativesBlueshift, Customer.io, RudderStack
Attentive, Klaviyo
Four alternativesRudderStack, Segment, Tealium, Treasure
against: Adobe Audience Manager, The Trade Desk
against: Birdeye, BrightLocal, Podium
Kimi K2Apollo.io, Segment
Three alternativesHubSpot, Lusha, RudderStack
against: Tealium, mParticle
Apollo.io, SegmentHeld
Two alternativesHubSpot Breeze Intelligence, RudderStack
against: Adobe Audience Manager, ZoomInfo
ClickUp
Four alternativesAirtable, Monday.com, Notion, Smartsheet
Segment
Four alternativesAmplitude, Capsule CRM, EngageBay, HubSpot
Segment
Three alternativesTealium, Treasure Data, mParticle
against: Salesforce Data Cloud
against: Adobe Audience Manager, Alation, BigQuery, Collibra, Databricks, HubSpot, IBM Cloud Pak for Data / Db2, Informatica IDMC, Oracle BlueKai, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA, Salesforce Audience Studio, Snowflake, Tableau, Teradata
GLM 4.7 FlashXHubSpot Breeze Intelligence
Three alternativesApollo.io, Clay, Salespanel
PandaDocChanged
Three alternativesContractSafe, GetAccept, Proposify
Airtable, Baserow, Glide
Two alternativesDefinite, Microsoft Power BI
Coffee
Four alternativesActiveCampaign, EngageBay, Freshsales, HubSpot CRM
against: Segment
no first choiceagainst: Alation, Amazon Redshift, Collibra, Domo, HubSpot, IBM InfoSphere MDM, Informatica IDMC, Talend
MiniMax M2.5Apollo.io
Five alternativesDemandbase, HubSpot, HubSpot Breeze Intelligence, MCH Strategic Data, ZoomInfo
HubSpotChanged
Three alternativesHey Sid, Salesforce Audience Studio, Salesforce Data Cloud
BigQuery, Snowflake
Three alternativesFivetran, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau
OnAudience DMP
Three alternativesCoffee CDP, Klaviyo, Segment
no first choiceagainst: Alation, Collibra, IBM InfoSphere, Informatica MDM, SAP MDG
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 00:20yes1410 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 04:43no05 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-14 23:05yes1323 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 22:55yes207 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-14 23:15yes09 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 00:13yes09 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-14 22:52yes036 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 02:22yes01 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 02:20yes063 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-14 23:45yes040 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:42yes0115 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 23:45yes017 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 02:02yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 02:15yes35 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 02:49yes1923 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 22:57yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-14 23:58yes07 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:39yes08 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 04:31yes019 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 00:55yes01 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 02:16yes078 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 00:12yes037 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 02:35yes011 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 03:53yes023 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 03:58yes77 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:41yes66 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-14 23:17yes2126 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 04:11yes208 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-14 23:24yes09 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:49yes011 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 03:57yes026 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 01:16yes02 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 00:22yes042 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 03:50yes034 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 02:12yes0263 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 03:28yes014 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 00:39yes76 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:55yes27 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 00:30yes1421 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 04:19yes204 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 00:27yes07 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 02:09yes08 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 03:10yes018 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:31yes01 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:39yes052 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 00:56yes029 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:05yes028 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 22:55yes015 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 04:08no07 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:49no06 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 02:19no014 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 04:05yes208 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 00:29yes07 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:25no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 04:49yes035 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 04:40yes02 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 04:14yes033 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 03:41yes033 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 00:29yes013 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 02:15no010 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 01:11yes2314 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 02:25yes56 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 04:40yes1423 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 02:13yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 00:42yes010 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-14 23:13yes010 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 02:27yes022 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 02:06yes02 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:28yes034 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:33yes067 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 01:26yes0195 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 04:52yes028 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
Adobe read as Adobe Real-Time CDP
Salesforce read as Salesforce Audience Studio
Unresolved, counted raw
Acronis
Backblaze
Clearbit Intelligence
Coffee CDP
Coginiti
CrashPlan (Code42)
DBeaver Community
Delve AI
ERPNext
Google Ads Audience Manager
Grist
HubSpot CRM Suite
IBM Cloud Pak for Data / Db2
IDrive
Knack
Leadspace CDP
MSP360
Meta Conversions API
Meta Events Manager / Custom Audiences
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Dataverse
Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
Microsoft Fabric / OneLake
Microsoft Lists
Ninox
OnAudience.com Data Management Platform
OpenMetadata
Optable
RudderStack Cloud
RudderStack Community Edition
SAP
SAP Business One
SQLite
SoftwareAdvice
Squadata
Talend Data Fabric
TeamDesk
Treasure
Turso
Zoho
Zoho CRM Free Edition
Zoho Dataworks
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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