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Index Marketing Loyalty › Enterprise September 2026 Edition

Loyalty, advocacy and referrals for enterprise buyers

Asked as “customer loyalty and referral platform”, and as “customer advocacy and referral program tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 46 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Contested
15% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Influitive15%15%27accepted challenger
02Extole13%12%41accepted challenger
03Open Loyalty13%10%30accepted challenger
04Talon.One9%0%31accepted challenger
05Annex Cloud9%22%18accepted challenger
06Voucherify4%0%17accepted challenger
07Talkable4%18%11accepted challenger
08Ambassador2%11%19accepted challenger
09Salesforce Loyalty Management2%19%16accepted challenger
10Referral Rock2%8%12accepted challenger
11Buyapowa2%30%10criticized challenger
12Smile.io2%73%11criticized challenger
Show the six products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
18ReferralCandy0%80%15criticized challenger
17LoyaltyLion0%67%15criticized challenger
16Yotpo0%43%14criticized challenger
14Friendbuy0%20%15accepted challenger
13Antavo0%11%18accepted challenger
15Mention Me0%10%10accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative30%
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01Influitive15%
02Extole13%
03Open Loyalty13%
04Talon.One9%
05Annex Cloud9%
06Voucherify4%
07Talkable4%
08Ambassador2%
09Salesforce Loyalty Management2%
10Referral Rock2%
11Buyapowa2%
12Smile.io2%
13Antavo0%
14Friendbuy0%
15Mention Me0%
16Yotpo0%
17LoyaltyLion0%
18ReferralCandy0%

02What they warned about

One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
ReferralCandy
80%
12 of 15 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 9 hard negative
“Examples include **ReferralCandy** or basic built-in referral widgets... Why enterprises should avoid or use extreme caution” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
LoyaltyLion
67%
10 of 15 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Examples include **Smile.io, LoyaltyLion, and Growave**... Why enterprises should avoid or use extreme caution” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Smile.io
73%
8 of 11 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“avoid ... operators positioned primarily for SMBs (Smile.io, Kangaroo, Viral Loops)” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
Yotpo
43%
6 of 14 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Risk level: HIGH — vendor instability and product sun-setting ... avoid platforms with product-sunsetting histories (Yotpo)” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: four of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

23 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 4 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 219 links across 100 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. The other 8 models searched through a gateway that returned no source list on this edition.

vendor site · Open Loyalty10 answers · 18 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Yotpo6 answers · 6 citations · 3 models
5 answers · 8 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Voucherify5 answers · 8 citations · 2 models
vendor site · CustomerGauge5 answers · 6 citations · 2 models
5 answers · 5 citations · 2 models
4 answers · 5 citations · 1 model
vendor site · Gartner4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Smile.io4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
3 answers · 7 citations · 1 model

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best customer loyalty and referral platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which customer advocacy and referral program tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade loyalty, advocacy and referral platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best customer loyalty and referral platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a customer loyalty and referral platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which loyalty, advocacy and referral platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5CustomerGauge
Four alternativesAntavo, Kademi, PartnerStack, Salesforce Loyalty Management
InfluitiveChanged
Two alternativesBase, Extole
Open Loyalty
Six alternativesAnnex Cloud, Antavo, Bubblehouse, Salesforce Loyalty Management, Talkable, Talon.One
Open Loyalty
Two alternativesFriendbuy, SaaSquatch
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniAnnex Cloud
Three alternativesReferral Factory, Talon.One, impact.com
InfluitiveChanged
One alternativePostBeyond
Annex Cloud
Four alternativesComarch Loyalty Marketing / Loyalty Cloud, Friendbuy, Talon.One, Yotpo Loyalty & Referrals
Referral Factory
Two alternativesPreferred Patron Loyalty, Tada
no first choiceagainst: Buyapowa, LoyaltyLion, Okendo, Referral Factory, ReferralCandy, Smile.io, Talkable
Gemini 3.5 FlashAnnex Cloud
Three alternativesExtole, Influitive, PartnerStack
Base, InfluitiveChanged
Two alternativesExtole, ReferenceEdge
Capillary, Extole, Influitive, Talon.One
Ten alternativesAnnex Cloud, Antavo, Base.ai, Friendbuy, GaggleAMP, Heyoo.ai, Mention Me, SaaSquatch, Salesforce Loyalty Management, impact.com
Voucherify
Three alternativesOpen Loyalty, Referral Rock, Talon.One
Extole, Talon.One
Three alternativesAnnex Cloud / ReactorCX, Bubblehouse, Friendbuy
against: Growave, LoyaltyLion, ReferralCandy, Smile.io
Perplexity SonarCustomerGauge, Open Loyalty
Four alternativesFielo, Maritz, Talon.One, Voucherify
Base.aiChanged
Four alternativesExtole, Influitive, Point of Reference, ReferenceEdge
Annex Cloud
Eleven alternativesAntavo, Arvato, Comarch, Kobie, LoyaltyLion, Open Loyalty, Oracle CrowdTwist, Salesforce Loyalty Management, Talon.One, Voucherify, Yotpo
against: Smile.io
Open Loyalty
Four alternativesComarch Loyalty, SAP Emarsys, Talon.One, White Label Loyalty
no first choiceagainst: Blackhawk Network, Incomm, Loopy Loyalty, LoyaltyLion, Loyoly, Oracle CrowdTwist, SAP Emarsys, Smile.io, Yotpo Loyalty, Zoho CRM
Grok 4.1 FastOpen Loyalty
Four alternativesAmbassador, Extole, Influitive, Salesforce Loyalty Management
InfluitiveChanged
Four alternativesBase.ai, Extole, Higher Logic, Referral Rock
no first choiceagainst: Oracle CrowdTwist, Salesforce Loyalty ManagementPreferred Patron Loyalty, Smile.io
Two alternativesReferral Rock, Talkable
against: Annex Cloud, Extole, Open Loyalty, ReferralCandy, Salesforce Loyalty Management
no first choiceagainst: Ambassador, Annex Cloud, Antavo, Comarch, Extole, Friendbuy, GrowSurf, Influitive, LoyaltyLion, Referral Rock, ReferralCandy, Yotpo
Mistral SmallPartnerStack, Salesforce Loyalty Management
Five alternativesAmbassador, Extole, Open Loyalty, Talon.One, impact.com
ExtoleChanged
Three alternativesAmbassador, Influitive, ReferenceEdge
Talon.One
Thirteen alternativesAnnex Cloud, Antavo, Enable3, Extole, Influitive AdvocateHub, Mention Me, NextBee, Open Loyalty, Oracle CrowdTwist, Referral Rock, SAP Emarsys, Salesforce Loyalty Management, Voucherify
Annex Cloud, Talon.One
Three alternativesExtole, Oracle CrowdTwist, Zinrelo
no first choiceagainst: Fleetcor, Grubhub, Marriott Bonvoy, UberOne, Upside Services
DeepSeek V4 FlashAnnex Cloud
Seven alternativesApex Loyalty, Cello, CustomerGauge, Open Loyalty, PartnerStack, Salesforce Loyalty Management, Talon.One
against: Extole, Smile.io, Yotpo
InfluitiveChanged
Four alternativesAmbassify, Referral Rock, SlapFive, impact.com
against: Extole
Extole, Influitive, Talon.One
Thirteen alternativesAmbassador, Annex Cloud, Antavo, Birdeye, Friendbuy, Loyalty Juggernaut, Mention Me, NextBee, ReferenceEdge, SlapFive, Talkable, UserEvidence, Yotpo
against: Referral Factory, ReferralCandy
Preferred Patron
Four alternativesExtole, Salesforce Loyalty Management, Talon.One, Voucherify
against: Annex Cloud, Antavo, LoyaltyLion, Open Loyalty, ReferralCandy, Yotpo Loyalty
no first choiceagainst: Ambassador, Buyapowa, Friendbuy, GrowSurf, Kangaroo Rewards, LoyaltyLion, Mention Me, ReferralCandy, Smile.io, Talkable, Viral Loops, Yotpo
Llama 4 MaverickExtole
One alternativeCustomerGauge
ExtoleHeld
Five alternativesBase.ai, Higher Logic, Influitive, ReferenceEdge, Upland RO Innovation
no first choiceno first choiceTalon.Oneagainst: Fivestars, Influitive, LoyaltyLion, ReferralCandy, Smile.io, Viral Loops
Qwen 3.7 FlashOpen Loyalty, Talon.One
Five alternativesApex Loyalty, Extole, Maritz, Salesforce Loyalty Management, Voucherify
AmbassadorChanged
Two alternativesExponential, Welcome
Extole, Influitive, Talon.One
Five alternativesAmbassador, Open Loyalty, SlapFive, Voucherify, Yotpo
Talkable
One alternativeExtole
against: Friendbuy, Yotpo
no first choiceagainst: Azpiral, Influitive
Kimi K2Influitive
Three alternativesApex Loyalty, Extole, Open Loyalty
against: Salesforce Loyalty Management
Base.ai, InfluitiveChanged
Two alternativesHigher Logic, Upland RO Innovation
Ambassador, Annex Cloud, Antavo, Extole, Higher Logic, Influitive, Open Loyalty, SlapFive, Talon.One, Yotpo
Six alternativesExchange Solutions, LoyaltyLion, NextBee, Oracle CrowdTwist, Salesforce Loyalty Management, Voucherify
against: Birdeye, GrowSurf, Referral Factory
Buyapowa
Two alternativesPreferred Patron, Referral Rock
against: Extole, LoyaltyLion, Open Loyalty, ReferralCandy, Yotpo
no first choiceagainst: Annex Cloud, Bazaarvoice, Epsilon PeopleCloud Loyalty, LoyaltyLion, Marigold Loyalty, Oracle CrowdTwist, PowerReviews
GLM 4.7 FlashXReferral Rock
Four alternativesBrandmovers, Extole, GrowSurf, Salesforce Loyalty Management
Base.aiChanged
Three alternativesExtole, Influitive, Upland RO Innovation
impact.com
Nineteen alternativesAntavo, Base.ai, Extole, Friendbuy, Higher Logic, Influitive, LoyaltyLion, ReferenceEdge, Referral Factory, Referral Rock, Rivo, SaaSquatch, Smile.io, Talon.One, Upland RO Innovation, UserEvidence, Viral Loops, Voucherify, Yotpo Loyalty
Voucherify
Three alternativesAnnex Cloud, Capillary, Talon.One
no first choiceagainst: Buyapowa, ReferralCandy, Yotpo
MiniMax M2.5Open Loyalty
Three alternativesAmbassador, Comarch Loyalty Marketing, Marsden Loyalty
ExtoleChanged
One alternativeInfluitive
no first choiceExtole, Talkable
Two alternativesOpen Loyalty, Referral Factory
against: GrowSurf, ReferralCandy, Viral Loops
no first choiceagainst: Influitive, LoyaltyLion, ReferralCandy, Smile.io
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 04:57yes1611 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:36yes34 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 02:42yes2623 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 03:15yes156 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 00:19yes011 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:27yes010 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 03:18yes039 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 22:55yes02 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 02:42yes052 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 04:29yes032 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:25yes065 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 01:13yes016 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 02:36yes89 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:37yes56 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 03:24yes719 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 00:47yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 01:06yes010 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 02:33yes010 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 02:25yes036 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 01:53yes01 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 03:25no037 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 02:15yes044 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 04:53yes0103 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 23:47yes018 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 01:43yes1513 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-14 23:50yes813 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 03:48yes2534 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 03:41yes2012 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 04:12yes011 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-14 22:58yes014 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 04:21yes028 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 01:34yes02 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 05:03yes031 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 02:57yes087 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 04:43yes029 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 02:25yes025 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 04:30yes1210 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:00yes35 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 01:36yes2330 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 04:59yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 03:45yes012 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 03:07yes09 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 00:55yes061 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 22:56yes02 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 00:58yes040 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 04:36yes038 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 03:37yes0205 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 03:54yes064 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-14 22:59yes1710 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-14 23:09no011 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 02:58yes822 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 01:44yes2011 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 03:54yes013 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-14 23:24no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 04:04yes081 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 02:56yes02 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 00:01no042 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 04:04no083 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:27yes073 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 01:04yes033 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 02:40yes1711 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:01yes36 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 01:09yes1328 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 03:53yes177 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 00:34yes011 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 01:27yes013 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 02:10yes080 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 05:06yes03 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:52yes063 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 02:27yes085 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 01:16yes046 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 23:24yes024 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
Salesforce read as Salesforce Loyalty Management
Unresolved, counted raw
Ambassify
Annex Cloud / ReactorCX
Azpiral
Blackhawk Network
Comarch Loyalty
Comarch Loyalty Management
Comarch Loyalty Marketing
Comarch Loyalty Marketing / Loyalty Cloud
Epsilon Loyalty / SessionM
Epsilon PeopleCloud Loyalty
Exchange Solutions
Exponential
Fielo
Fleetcor
Grubhub
Heyoo.ai
Incomm
Marriott Bonvoy
Marsden Loyalty
Oracle CrowdTwist Loyalty
Perx
ReactorCX
Rybbon/Blackhawk
SAP Customer Loyalty Management
SocialHP
TINT/Vesta
Tada
UberOne
Upside Services
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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