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Direct mail and gifting platforms · October 2026 Edition

Postalytics vs Lob

Zero of fourteen models named Postalytics first on the direct prompt; zero named Lob. Postalytics was named by eleven of the fourteen models and Lob by ten and both carry 18 labels, so the shares below are directly comparable.

Postalytics

accepted challenger

Named in three categories this edition.

Lob

accepted challenger

Named in three categories this edition.

First-choice share9%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%17%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#6A position in a field of 10; printed, not drawn.
Labels1818Equal, which is what makes the shares comparable.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Postalytics reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Sendoso was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. Sendoso vs Postalytics · Sendoso vs Lob · Reachdesk vs Postalytics

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 direct mail and gifting 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.
PostalyticsFirst choices, of fourteen modelsLob
Direct001 against Lob
Paraphrase00
Comparative14
Budget-constrained42
Scale-constrained10
Negative002 against Lob
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.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Postalytics and Lob were named in the same answer 140 times, of the 192 answers naming Postalytics and the 294 naming Lob. In those answers Lob took the first choice thirty-five times and Postalytics fifty-two.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Postalytics and Lob 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
Postalytics Lob first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Postalytics on the left and Lob on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Neither was the first choice, one was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
DeepSeek V4 FlashSendoso alternatives: Postalytics, Reachdesk
GLM 4.7 FlashXPostal alternatives: Postalytics, Reachdesk, Sendoso

Neither was named

12 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Postal alternatives: Reachdesk, Sendoso
GPT-5.4 miniSendoso alternatives: Reachdesk
Gemini 3.5 FlashPostal alternatives: Goody, Reachdesk
Perplexity SonarSendoso alternatives: Reachdesk, Stannp
Grok 4.1 FastSendoso alternatives: Giftsenda, Postal, Reachdesk
Mistral SmallReachdesk, Sendoso alternatives: Postal, Postie
Llama 4 MaverickSendoso
Qwen 3.7 FlashSendoso alternatives: Postal, Reachdesk
Kimi K2Postal alternatives: Goody, Reachdesk
MiniMax M2.5Sendoso alternatives: Alyce By Sendoso, Reachdesk
GPT-6 LunaSendoso alternatives: Reachdesk
Muse Glimmer 30BPostal alternatives: Alyce, Sendoso

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
Level: the same share of first choices.
Postalytics5%#4 of 9
Lob5%#5 of 9
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Postalytics leads by five points.
Postalytics9%#5 of 10
Lob4%#6 of 10
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Lob leads at enterprise.
Lob6%#4 of 9
Postalytics0%#– of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Postalytics

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about Lob

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

“Avoid pure mail-only (e.g., Lob, PostGrid) if gifting is key.” Grok 4.1 Fast · direct prompt · hard negative
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.