Crayon vs Semrush
Four of fourteen models named Crayon first on the direct prompt; zero named Semrush. Crayon was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Semrush by thirteen and Crayon carries 42 labels and Semrush 27, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in five categories this edition.
Boston, United States, founded 2008. Named in ten categories this edition.
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 market intelligence platforms page.
By framing
CrayonFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSemrush
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Crayon and Semrush were named in the same answer 154 times, of the 308 answers naming Crayon and the 407 naming Semrush. In those answers Semrush took the first choice seventeen times and Crayon twenty.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | | |
Crayon Semrush first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Crayon on the left and Semrush on the right.The direct prompt
Crayon first, Semrush not the choice
4 of 14 modelsSemrush was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
9 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
1 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.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
Crayon7%#4 of 12Semrush3%#6 of 12What the models said about Crayon
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“Avoid enterprise-oriented platforms like Crayon, Klue, or AlphaSense if budget is the main constraint” Perplexity Sonar · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid enterprise platforms — Klue, Crayon, AlphaSense, and ZoomInfo” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Pick Crayon if you want the most balanced "mid-market CI platform" for day-to-day competitive tracking and sales enablement.” GPT-5.4 mini · direct prompt · first choice
What the models said about Semrush
No label in this category carried a quote.
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.