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Market intelligence platforms · October 2026 Edition

ZoomInfo vs Semrush

Two of fourteen models named ZoomInfo first on the direct prompt; zero named Semrush. ZoomInfo was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Semrush by thirteen and ZoomInfo carries 47 labels and Semrush 27, so the shares are not directly comparable.

ZoomInfo

criticized challenger

Vancouver, Washington, United States, founded 2000. Named in twenty-six categories this edition.

Semrush

accepted challenger

Boston, United States, founded 2008. Named in ten categories this edition.

First-choice share12%3%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate30%22%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#6A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels4727A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, ZoomInfo reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Klue was named alongside these two in fourteen of the fourteen direct answers. Apollo.io vs ZoomInfo · Apollo.io vs Semrush · ZoomInfo vs Klue

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

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
ZoomInfoFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSemrush
Direct202 against ZoomInfo
Paraphrase501 against ZoomInfo
Comparative10
Budget-constrained024 against ZoomInfo · 1 against Semrush
Scale-constrained00
Negative007 against ZoomInfo · 5 against Semrush
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 ZoomInfo and Semrush 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
ZoomInfo Semrush first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, ZoomInfo on the left and Semrush on the right.

The direct prompt

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

ZoomInfo first, Semrush not the choice

2 of 14 modelsSemrush was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Perplexity SonarZoomInfo alternatives: Apollo.io, Crayon, Klue
GLM 4.7 FlashXZoomInfo alternatives: AlphaSense, Crayon, Klue, Similarweb

Neither was the first choice, one was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Klue alternatives: Crayon, Improvado, ZoomInfo
Gemini 3.5 FlashApollo.io, Klue alternatives: Cognism, Crayon, Demandbase, Kompyte, Semrush
DeepSeek V4 FlashCrayon alternatives: 6sense, AlphaSense, Klue, Kompyte, ZoomInfo
Qwen 3.7 FlashCrayon, Klue alternatives: Crunchbase, Gong, ZoomInfo
Kimi K2Kompyte alternatives: Crayon, Klue, ZoomInfo
MiniMax M2.5HG Insights, HockeyStack alternatives: AlphaSense, Klue, ZoomInfo
Muse Glimmer 30BKlue alternatives: 6sense, Bombora, Crayon, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Semrush, ZoomInfo

Neither was named

5 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniCrayon alternatives: Contify, Klue
Grok 4.1 FastApollo.io alternatives: Crayon, HubSpot Intelligence/Marketing Hub, Klue
Mistral SmallApollo.io, Klue alternatives: AlphaSense, Crayon, HockeyStack
Llama 4 MaverickHG Insights alternatives: 6sense, AlphaSense, Bombora, Crayon, HubSpot Breeze Intelligence, Klue
GPT-6 LunaCrayon alternatives: Klue, Kompyte

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
Semrush leads by seven points.
Semrush9%#2 of 16
ZoomInfo2%#12 of 16
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: ZoomInfo leads at mid-market.
ZoomInfo12%#2 of 12
Semrush3%#6 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
ZoomInfo leads by twenty-five points.
ZoomInfo25%#1 of 14
Semrush0%#14 of 14
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about ZoomInfo

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

“High Caution: ZoomInfo ... frequent complaints of inaccurate/outdated contact data ... Best avoided if: You're a small team” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · hard negative

What the models said about Semrush

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.