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Account-based marketing platforms · September 2026 Edition

AdRoll ABM vs Terminus

Eleven of twelve models named AdRoll ABM first on the direct prompt; one named Terminus. AdRoll ABM was named by twelve of the twelve models and Terminus by ten and AdRoll ABM carries 67 labels and Terminus 34, so the shares are not directly comparable.

AdRoll ABM

endorsed leader

By AdRoll, San Francisco, United States, founded 2007. Named in ten categories this edition.

Terminus

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

First-choice share56%5%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate6%21%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels6734A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, AdRoll ABM reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Demandbase was named alongside these two in seven of the twelve direct answers. AdRoll ABM vs HubSpot ABM · HubSpot ABM vs Terminus

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve 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 account-based marketing platforms page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
AdRoll ABMFirst choices, of twelve modelsTerminus
Direct111
Paraphrase101
Comparative00
Budget-constrained601 against AdRoll ABM · 1 against Terminus
Scale-constrained41
Negative113 against AdRoll ABM · 6 against Terminus
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where AdRoll ABM and Terminus stood in it.

Both were the first choice

1 of 12 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.
DeepSeek V4 FlashAdRoll ABM, Terminus alternatives: HubSpot ABM

AdRoll ABM first, Terminus an alternative

10 of 12 modelsTerminus was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5AdRoll ABM, ZoomInfo alternatives: 6sense
Gemini 3.5 FlashAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Abmatic AI, HubSpot ABM
Perplexity SonarAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Demandbase
Grok 4.1 FastAdRoll ABM alternatives: Demandbase, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Terminus
Mistral SmallAdRoll ABM alternatives: Factors.ai, HockeyStack, HubSpot Native ABM, Terminus
Llama 4 MaverickAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense Revenue AI, Demandbase, Metaflow AI, ZoomInfo MarketingOS
Qwen 3.7 FlashAdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, Demandbase, Terminus
Kimi K2AdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense, DemandScience, HubSpot Marketing Hub
GLM 4.7 FlashXAdRoll ABM, HubSpot ABM alternatives: 6sense Revenue AI, Demandbase
MiniMax M2.5AdRoll ABM alternatives: 6sense Revenue AI, Demandbase, Terminus

Neither was the first choice, one was named

1 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 mini6sense alternatives: AdRoll ABM, Demandbase

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
AdRoll ABM leads by twenty points.
AdRoll ABM20%#2 of 13
Terminus0%#11 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
AdRoll ABM leads by fifty-one points.
AdRoll ABM56%#1 of 11
Terminus5%#3 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Terminus leads at enterprise.
Terminus4%#3 of 8
AdRoll ABM0%#7 of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about AdRoll ABM

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

“Enterprise tools (RollWorks ~$12K/yr, Demandbase) are overkill/too costly.” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · hard negative
“Renamed to AdRoll ABM (Aug 2025) | Same product, different name — reviews may be split” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“RollWorks / AdRoll ABM (Be cautious of: Ad-only limitations and superficial metrics)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“The best account-based marketing platform for a company with a limited budget is RollWorks, which is an approachable and budget-friendly ABM tool” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd generally recommend RollWorks / AdRoll ABM if your priority is fast setup, practical ABM, and a more approachable mid-market fit” GPT-5.4 mini · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd suggest starting with RollWorks if you need a dedicated ABM platform, as it's specifically designed for mid-market companies” Claude Haiku 4.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about Terminus

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

“some ABM platforms to avoid or be cautious about include: 1. Terminus - Merged with DemandScience in November 2024” Llama 4 Maverick · negative prompt · hard negative
“Terminus (now DemandScience): Post-merger uncertainty, reporting limits, rules-based (not AI-predictive).” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · soft negative
“Merged with DemandScience (Nov 2024) | Now "ABX by DemandScience" — evaluate the combined roadmap” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“the strongest contenders are RollWorks (AdRoll ABM) and Terminus (DemandScience ABX)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
“Platforms like RollWorks or Terminus are built for your scale” Kimi K2 · scale prompt · first choice
“Terminus (if you want multi-channel orchestration)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.