GTM AI Index
September 2026 Edition · The permanent record of this edition. The unqualified address always carries the latest edition.
Index Marketing September 2026 Edition

Mobile apps

Asked as “mobile app marketing platform”, and as “mobile app engagement and growth tool”, on behalf of a mid-market 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 a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns15%10%20accepted challenger
02Customer.io15%0%12accepted challenger
03CleverTap11%9%23accepted challenger
04OneSignal9%3%35accepted challenger
05Google App Campaigns9%0%17accepted challenger
06Braze9%24%34accepted challenger
07AppsFlyer7%3%36accepted challenger
08MoEngage7%12%17accepted challenger
09Branch2%4%28accepted challenger
Show the seven products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
16AppLovin0%56%16criticized challenger
15Iterable0%27%11criticized challenger
14TikTok Ads0%20%10accepted challenger
13Airship0%15%13accepted challenger
10Adjust0%3%33accepted challenger
12Singular0%0%19accepted challenger
11Apple Search Ads0%0%16accepted 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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01Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns15%
02Customer.io15%
03CleverTap11%
04OneSignal9%
05Google App Campaigns9%
06Braze9%
07AppsFlyer7%
08MoEngage7%
09Branch2%
10Adjust0%
11Apple Search Ads0%
12Singular0%
13Airship0%
14TikTok Ads0%
15Iterable0%
16AppLovin0%

02What they warned about

Three of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, 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.
AppLovin
56%
9 of 16 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 6 hard negative
“What to Avoid on a Budget - **Programmatic DSPs** (AppLovin, IronSource, Unity Ads) - require $10K+/month minimum” Mistral Small, budget prompt
Braze
24%
8 of 34 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Skip platforms like Braze, Adjust (Enterprise tier), or CleverTap unless you have significant revenue.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt
Liftoff
44%
4 of 9 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“Avoid complex Demand-Side Platforms (DSPs) like AppLovin or Liftoff, which require high spend ($15k+/month)” Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt
Iterable
27%
3 of 11 labels negative · 3 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“**Airship, Iterable** — also enterprise-oriented, opaque quote pricing” DeepSeek V4 Flash, direct 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

21 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. 5 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 219 links across 125 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 · Guideflow8 answers · 11 citations · 2 models
7 answers · 8 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Gartner5 answers · 6 citations · 2 models
5 answers · 6 citations · 2 models
4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Moburst4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Braze3 answers · 7 citations · 2 models
3 answers · 4 citations · 1 model
3 answers · 3 citations · 1 model
vendor site · AppsFlyer3 answers · 3 citations · 2 models
3 answers · 3 citations · 2 models
3 answers · 3 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 mobile app marketing platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which mobile app engagement and growth tool would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top mobile app marketing platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best mobile app marketing platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a mobile app marketing platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which mobile app marketing platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
Four alternativesAcoustic, Braze, Customer.io, MoEngage
CleverTapChanged
Two alternativesLocalytics, OneSignal
no first choiceOneSignal
Five alternativesAdjust, AppsFlyer, Buffer, Google UAC, Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns
against: Hootsuite
no first choiceagainst: Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns, Snapchat, TikTok Ads
GPT-5.4 miniBraze
Three alternativesCleverTap, Iterable, OneSignal
BrazeHeld
One alternativeAirship
against: OneSignal
Adjust, AppsFlyer
Two alternativesBranch, Singular
AppsFlyer Zero, Branchno first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashCustomer.io
Five alternativesAppcues, AppsFlyer, Branch, MoEngage, Pendo
against: Adobe Journey Optimizer, Braze
Customer.ioHeld
Three alternativesAppcues, Mixpanel, Pendo
against: Braze, CleverTap, Iterable, MoEngage
AppsFlyer
Eleven alternativesAdjust, App Radar, AppTweak, Branch, Braze, CleverTap, MoEngage, OneSignal, Sensor Tower, Singular, Sonar
AppsFlyer, Firebase
Six alternativesApp Radar, Apple Search Ads, Native Console A/B Testing, OneSignal, SendPulse, Tenjin
no first choicenothing named
Perplexity SonarHubSpot Marketing Hub, MoEngage
Two alternativesBraze, Customer.io
MoEngageChanged
Two alternativesAdobe Marketo Engage, Braze
Adjust, AppsFlyer
Nine alternativesApple Search Ads, Branch, CleverTap, Firebase, Google Ads, Google App Campaigns, Meta Ads, Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns, OneSignal
Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns
One alternativeGoogle App Campaigns
against: AppLovin, Liftoff
no first choiceagainst: AppSumo, Google Ads, Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns, TikTok Ads
Grok 4.1 FastAppsFlyer
Three alternativesAdjust, Branch, Singular
against: Attentive, Klaviyo
CleverTapChanged
Three alternativesMixpanel, OneSignal, Pushwoosh
against: Braze, MoEngage
no first choiceGoogle App Campaigns, Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns
Three alternativesAppFollow, Firebase Cloud Messaging, OneSignal
against: AppLovin
no first choice
Seven alternativesAdjust, Airship, AppsFlyer, Branch, Braze, Google/Firebase, OneSignal
against: AppLovin, AppsFlyer, CPIDroid.com, KeyApp.top
Mistral SmallBraze, CleverTap
Five alternativesAdobe Marketo Engage, AppsFlyer, Firebase, Insider, OneSignal
Customer.ioChanged
Three alternativesCleverTap, Iterable, OneSignal
AppsFlyer, Braze
Seven alternativesAdjust, AppTweak, Branch, CleverTap, MoEngage, OneSignal, Sensor Tower
Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns
Five alternativesFirebase Analytics, Google App Campaigns, OneSignal, Product Hunt, TikTok Smart+ App Campaigns
against: AppLovin, Unity Ads, ironSource
no first choiceagainst: AdMob, AppLovin, InMobi, Meta Audience Network, Mintegral, Vungle
DeepSeek V4 FlashOneSignal
Two alternativesCustomer.io, MoEngage
against: Airship, Braze, Iterable
Customer.ioChanged
Two alternativesCleverTap, OneSignal
against: Braze
Apple Search Ads, Meta Ads
Twelve alternativesAdjust, AppTweak, AppsFlyer, Branch, Braze, CleverTap, Google App Campaigns, MoEngage, OneSignal, Sensor Tower, Singular, TikTok Ads
OneSignal
Four alternativesASOSuite / Applyra / AppDrift, AppFollow, Apple Search Ads, Firebase
no first choiceagainst: AppSally, Go Logo Now, Marketing.biz, Reviewlancer
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceBrazeChanged
Three alternativesAirship, MoEngage, OneSignal
no first choiceGoogle App Campaigns, Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns
Two alternativesMadgicx, Meta Audience Network
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashCustomer.io
Two alternativesBraze, HubSpot
Customer.ioHeld
Two alternativesBraze, OneSignal
AppsFlyer, Singular
Six alternativesAdjust, AppLovin, Apple Search Ads, Google App Campaigns, Liftoff, Meta (Facebook/Instagram) Advantage+
against: Branch
Google App Campaigns, Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns
Five alternativesAppFollow, AppsFlyer, Firebase, Mailchimp, OneSignal
against: Adjust, AppLovin, Braze, CleverTap, Liftoff
no first choiceagainst: Fiverr, Upwork
Kimi K2HubSpot Marketing Hub
Four alternatives6sense Revenue AI, Airship, Braze, OneSignal
Customer.ioChanged
Three alternativesOneSignal, Pendo, Vero
against: Airship, Braze, Iterable
AppsFlyer, Braze
Seven alternativesAdjust, Attentive, Branch, CleverTap, MoEngage, OneSignal, Singular
AppFollow, Firebase Analytics
Six alternativesAdjust, App Radar, AppsFlyer, Google App Campaigns, Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns, OneSignal
against: AppLovin, Liftoff
CleverTap, MoEngage, WebEngage
Four alternativesAirship, Braze, Iterable, OneSignal
against: AppLovin, EZmob, Google Display Network, Meta Audience Network
GLM 4.7 FlashXAppsFlyer
Three alternativesAdjust, Branch, Braze
CleverTapChanged
Three alternativesAppStorys, Braze, Google Analytics 4
AppsFlyer
Nine alternativesAdjust, AppLovin, AppTweak, Branch, Braze, CleverTap, OneSignal, Sensor Tower, Singular
Google App Campaigns, Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns
Six alternativesASOMobile, AppFollow, AppScreenStudio, Appfigures, Apple Product Page Optimization, Google Play Store Listing Experiments
against: AppLovin, Liftoff
no first choicenothing named
MiniMax M2.5OneSignal
Two alternativesAcoustic, Google Ads
PendoChanged
Four alternativesAmplitude, AppsFlyer, Branch, ChurnZero
no first choiceagainst: BrazeMeta Advantage+ App Campaigns
Four alternativesAdjust, AppsFlyer, Google App Campaigns, OneSignal
no first choicenothing named
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 02:28yes138 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 02:10yes44 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 02:08yes1520 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:28yes2039 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 01:00yes09 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 02:33yes010 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 03:53yes022 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 03:01yes02 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:33yes043 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 05:07yes048 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:13yes064 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 02:53yes042 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 00:17yes1610 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 04:01yes34 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 01:48yes1827 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 01:30yes195 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-14 23:02yes07 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 02:28yes07 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 02:12yes029 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 02:26yes02 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 00:23no031 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 04:38yes028 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 01:31yes043 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 01:29no011 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 04:29yes78 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-14 23:36yes67 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-14 22:59yes2031 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 02:45yes207 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 01:02yes012 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 00:11yes011 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 01:38yes085 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:42yes02 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 04:50yes045 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 00:43yes038 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 05:07yes0108 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 03:46yes017 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 00:17yes97 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 00:05yes26 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-14 23:13yes1221 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 02:05yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-14 23:55yes08 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 00:50yes010 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 02:05yes017 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 03:42yes02 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 04:19yes031 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 02:07yes043 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 02:11yes018 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 04:23yes019 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 00:55no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-14 23:19no08 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 01:16no014 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 00:25yes209 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 00:46yes09 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 02:57yes011 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 02:41yes022 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 01:42yes03 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 04:48no035 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:41yes064 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 00:29yes070 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 01:44yes011 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 02:46yes3415 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 04:50yes65 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 04:05yes823 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 02:24yes205 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 03:10yes07 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-14 22:54yes012 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 00:58yes054 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:28yes01 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:43no044 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 03:07yes051 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:55yes050 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 03:17yes021 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
Facebook read as Meta Ads
Meta read as Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns
Meta (Facebook/Instagram feed) read as Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns
Meta (Facebook/Instagram) read as Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns
TikTok read as TikTok Ads
Unresolved, counted raw
ASOSuite / Applyra / AppDrift
ASOTools.io
Aarki
Adjust Fraud Prevention
AppLovin / MAX
AppRadar
AppSally
AppScreenStudio
AppStorys
Apple Product Page Optimization
AppsFlyer Protect360
BetaList
Branch Fraud Defender
Branch/Tenjin free tiers
CPIDroid.com
EZmob
FraudBlocker
Go Logo Now
Google
Google Ads UAC/ACe
Google Play Store Listing Experiments
Google UAC
Google/Firebase
Gummicube
KeyApp.top
Marketing.biz (Jonathan Bodnar's company)
Meta (Facebook/Instagram) Advantage+
Native Console A/B Testing
Phiture
Reviewlancer
Sensor Tower Free Tier
Telemetry
TikTok Smart+
TikTok Smart+ App Campaigns
Upland Localytics
mFilterIt Valid8
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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