# Event lead capture apps for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, October 2026

GTM AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "event lead capture app" and as "trade show badge scanning and lead retrieval tool", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories. Page: https://gtm-ai-index.com/marketing/event-lead-capture/enterprise/

**Standing:** iCapture leads with 23% of first choices; verdict contested. 53 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iCapture | 23% | 17% | 41 |
| 2 | Cvent LeadCapture | 21% | 17% | 46 |
| 3 | Captello | 11% | 8% | 38 |
| 4 | Blinq | 9% | 27% | 37 |
| 5 | momencio | 6% | 25% | 24 |
| 6 | B2Brain | 4% | 0% | 11 |
| 7 | BoothIQ | 4% | 0% | 10 |
| 8 | Bizzabo | 2% | 8% | 13 |
| 9 | Wave Connect | 2% | 20% | 25 |
| 10 | Mobly Capture | 2% | 27% | 15 |
| 11 | Popl | 2% | 39% | 23 |
| 12 | Whova | 0% | 64% | 11 |

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Bizzabo; alternatives Blinq, Cvent LeadCapture
- GPT-5.4 mini: B2Brain; alternatives Captello, Cvent LeadCapture, HiHello Events, Pana Events
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: iCapture; alternatives Captello, Integrate Events, Jifflenow
- Perplexity Sonar: Cvent LeadCapture; alternatives Bizzabo, iCapture
- Grok 4.1 Fast: Captello; alternatives Blinq, Cvent iCapture
- Mistral Small: iCapture, momencio; alternatives Cvent LeadCapture
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Cvent LeadCapture, Salesforce Event Lead Capture; alternatives Captello, iCapture
- Llama 4 Maverick: Blinq, iCapture, momencio
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: iCapture; alternatives Cvent Lead Capture, Eventbase, momencio
- Kimi K2: Blinq; alternatives Cvent LeadCapture, Wave Connect
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Cvent LeadCapture; alternatives Bizzabo, Blinq, Popl, Webex Events Lead Retrieval
- MiniMax M2.5: Webex Webinars; alternatives Accel Events, Cvent LeadCapture, Wave Connect
- GPT-6 Luna: Cvent iCapture; alternatives Cvent LeadCapture, momencio
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Captello; alternatives Cvent Lead Capture, Cvent iCapture, Webex Webinars

## Sources the answers cite

81 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- b2brain.com: 55 answers, 131 citations
- blinq.me: 55 answers, 86 citations
- bizzabo.com: 47 answers, 86 citations
- mymanagementguide.com: 43 answers, 46 citations
- g2.com: 40 answers, 69 citations
- mobilocard.com: 38 answers, 48 citations
- eventify.io: 28 answers, 28 citations
- wavecnct.com: 24 answers, 31 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://mymanagementguide.com/top-event-lead-capture-platforms (43 answers)
- https://blinq.me/blog/best-event-lead-capture-software-2026 (41 answers)
- https://mobilocard.com/post/whats-the-best-event-lead-generation-software (33 answers)
- https://b2brain.com/blogs/best-app-for-events (31 answers)
- https://bizzabo.com/blog/best-lead-capture-apps-for-events (31 answers)
- https://bizzabo.com/blog/best-conference-lead-capture-apps (28 answers)
- https://eventify.io/blog/best-lead-retrieval-software (25 answers)
- https://g2.com/categories/event-lead-capture (22 answers)
- https://blinq.me/blog/best-trade-show-lead-capture-apps (18 answers)
- https://b2brain.com/blogs/lead-capture-app (16 answers)

## Warned against

- Blinq: 10 of 37 labels negative. "Avoid any app that charges per scan or per lead unless you have a hard cap and full visibility into the pricing formula." (DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt)
- Popl: 9 of 23 labels negative. "Consumer-grade digital business card apps (Popl, Blinq) often push leads into their own network or app ecosystem" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt)
- Whova: 7 of 11 labels negative. "Organizer-Dependent Scanners (e.g., Cvent LeadCapture, Whova, standard momencio tiers)" (Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt)
- iCapture: 7 of 41 labels negative. "What to Avoid ... Per-user licensing (~$79/user/month) — thousands of users = unpredictable six-figure+ costs" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://gtm-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://gtm-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as GTM AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, gtm-ai-index.com.