# Local listings management: what AI models recommend, October 2026

GTM AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "local listings management platform" and as "multi-location local SEO tool", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market 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/local-listings-management/

**Standing:** BrightLocal leads with 33% of first choices; verdict contested. 51 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BrightLocal | 33% | 10% | 58 |
| 2 | Moz Local | 20% | 17% | 48 |
| 3 | Synup | 10% | 5% | 37 |
| 4 | Yext | 10% | 39% | 62 |
| 5 | Semrush Local | 4% | 13% | 31 |
| 6 | Whitespark | 4% | 17% | 18 |
| 7 | Uberall | 2% | 11% | 36 |
| 8 | Birdeye | 2% | 12% | 34 |
| 9 | SOCi | 0% | 19% | 16 |
| 10 | Semrush Listing Management | 0% | 20% | 10 |

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

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Yext; alternatives Birdeye, BrightLocal, SOCi, Synup
- GPT-5.4 mini: Yext; alternatives Uberall
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Semrush Local; alternatives BrightLocal, Synup, Whitespark
- Perplexity Sonar: Synup; alternatives BrightLocal, Semrush Listing Management, Uberall, Yext
- Grok 4.1 Fast: BrightLocal; alternatives Moz Local, Synup, Yext
- Mistral Small: Birdeye, Yext; alternatives Moz Local, Synup
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: BrightLocal; alternatives Semrush Local, Synup, Uberall
- Llama 4 Maverick: BrightLocal Track, Synup; alternatives Birdeye, Moz Local, Yext
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Synup; alternatives BrightLocal, Uberall
- Kimi K2: BrightLocal; alternatives SOCi, Semrush Listing Management, Synup
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: BrightLocal; alternatives LocaliQ, Semrush Local, Yext
- MiniMax M2.5: BrightLocal; alternatives Synup, Yext
- GPT-6 Luna: BrightLocal; alternatives Yext
- Muse Glimmer 30B: BrightLocal, Synup; alternatives Semrush Listing Management

## Sources the answers cite

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

- birdeye.com: 47 answers, 58 citations
- guideflow.com: 46 answers, 78 citations
- g2.com: 38 answers, 62 citations
- brightlocal.com: 36 answers, 69 citations
- thestacc.com: 28 answers, 32 citations
- linkedin.com: 26 answers, 29 citations
- worldmetrics.org: 19 answers, 28 citations
- widewail.com: 19 answers, 20 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://guideflow.com/blog/local-listing-management-software-tools (40 answers)
- https://birdeye.com/blog/local-listing-management-tools (35 answers)
- https://brightlocal.com/resources/listings-management-services-compared (26 answers)
- https://linkedin.com/pulse/best-local-listings-management-platforms-agencies-2026-yash-kumar-wruec (20 answers)
- https://thestacc.com/best/local-listing-management-tools (19 answers)
- https://widewail.com/blog/best-local-business-listings-management-tools-and-services (19 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/business-listing-management-software (17 answers)
- https://cybernews.com/marketing-tools/best-listings-management-solutions (16 answers)
- https://expertbeacon.com/listings-management-tools (15 answers)
- https://webfx.com/local-seo/learn/local-listing-management (15 answers)

## Warned against

- Yext: 24 of 62 labels negative. "Why You Should Likely Avoid Yext (For Now) ... it is usually not recommended for a mid-sized B2B company." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, paraphrase prompt)
- BrightLocal: 6 of 58 labels negative. "Platforms like BrightLocal offer free trials and low-cost monitoring tools, though their core automated publishing features usually require a paid plan." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt)
- Moz Local: 8 of 48 labels negative. "Moz Local does not cover as many secondary directories as competitors... Acceptable for very simple needs, but insufficient for multi-location" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt)
- Birdeye: 4 of 34 labels negative. "Birdeye's listing architecture is less granular than specialized tools. Its pricing is also high relative to the listing-specific value provided." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative 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.