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

Territory and quota planning

Asked as “sales territory and quota planning tool”, and as “sales performance management platform”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 50 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Contested
30% 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
01CaptivateIQ30%9%44endorsed leader
02Fullcast18%6%33accepted challenger
03QuotaPath4%4%23accepted challenger
04Everstage4%0%12accepted challenger
05eSpatial2%11%28accepted challenger
06Maptive2%5%21accepted challenger
07Varicent2%44%36criticized challenger
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
11Xactly0%55%22criticized challenger
10Anaplan0%47%38criticized challenger
08Salesforce Maps0%23%22accepted challenger
09Badger Maps0%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%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%
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01CaptivateIQ30%
02Fullcast18%
03QuotaPath4%
04Everstage4%
05eSpatial2%
06Maptive2%
07Varicent2%
08Salesforce Maps0%
09Badger Maps0%
10Anaplan0%
11Xactly0%

02What they warned about

Two of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, 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.
Anaplan
47%
18 of 38 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“What to avoid for mid-market - **Anaplan** ... "more platform than mid-market teams need."” DeepSeek V4 Flash, direct prompt
Varicent
44%
16 of 36 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“What to avoid for mid-market ... Varicent / Xactly / Oracle SPM — Full sales-performance suites costing $50K–$100K+/year” DeepSeek V4 Flash, direct prompt
Xactly
55%
12 of 22 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“**Avoid:** Traditional enterprise platforms like Xactly ... they're overkill and overpriced for most mid-market needs.” Kimi K2, paraphrase prompt
CaptivateIQ
9%
4 of 44 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Mid-market RevOps tools (~$20K+/year or $2,400+/user/year).” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget 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

20 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. 166 links across 57 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 · CaptivateIQ11 answers · 17 citations · 3 models
vendor site · ZoomInfo8 answers · 9 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Guideflow7 answers · 13 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Salesmotion6 answers · 6 citations · 2 models
5 answers · 7 citations · 1 model
5 answers · 5 citations · 2 models
vendor site · BitScale5 answers · 5 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Prospeo4 answers · 8 citations · 1 model
vendor site · Forma.ai4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Maptive4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models
vendor site · Spotio4 answers · 4 citations · 2 models

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 sales territory and quota planning tool for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which sales performance management platform would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top territory and quota planning tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best sales territory and quota planning tool for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a sales territory and quota planning tool. What should we look at?”Negative“Which territory and quota planning tools should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5CaptivateIQ Planning
Three alternativesClari Align, Fullcast, eSpatial
no first choiceChangedCaptivateIQ, Varicent
Five alternativesAnaplan, Fullcast, Salesforce Maps, Workday Adaptive Planning, eSpatial
Maptive
Three alternativesBatchGeo, CaptivateIQ, eSpatial
against: Anaplan
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniCaptivateIQ Planning
Two alternativesSalesforce Sales Planning / Territory Planning, Xactly
CaptivateIQChanged
Two alternativesVaricent, Xactly
Salesforce Sales Planning / Territory Planning
Three alternativesAnaplan, CaptivateIQ, Xactly
Vena
Two alternativesAlignMix, Salesforce / Agentforce Sales
against: Anaplan, Oracle SPM, Varicent
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashFullcast
Five alternativesCaptivateIQ, Pigment, QuotaPath, Salesforce Maps, Salesforce Sales Planning
against: Anaplan, SAP Commissions, Varicent
CaptivateIQChanged
Three alternativesEverstage, QuotaPath, Salesforce Spiff
against: Anaplan, Varicent, Xactly
no first choice
Seven alternativesForma.ai, Fullcast, Lative, Pigment, Salesforce Maps / Territory Planning, Varicent, Xactly
against: Anaplan
Clevenue, InstaMaps
Five alternativesForecastio, Freshsales, Mapsly, Maptitude, Zoho CRM
against: Anaplan, Pigment, Salesforce Maps, Varicent
Abacum, Fullcast, Pigment
Five alternativesCaptivateIQ, Everstage, QuotaPath, Salesforce Sales Planning, Salesforce Spiff
against: Anaplan, Oracle Sales Planning, SAP Commissions
against: Anaplan, SAP SuccessFactors Territory and Quota, Salesforce Sales Territories, Varicent
Perplexity SonarFullcast
One alternativeCaptivateIQ
against: Varicent
CaptivateIQChanged
Two alternativesEverstage, QuotaPath
no first choiceAirtable
One alternativeBadger Maps
against: CaptivateIQ, eSpatial
no first choiceagainst: Plotly Dash Enterprise, Spreadsheets
Grok 4.1 FastCaptivateIQ
Five alternativesEverstage, Fullcast, Salesforce Maps, Salesforce Sales Planning, eSpatial
against: Anaplan, Varicent
CaptivateIQHeld
Two alternativesEverstage, Performio
against: SAP Commissions, Varicent, Xactly
Anaplan, Fullcast
Three alternativesCaptivateIQ, Varicent, Xactly
against: Salesforce Maps
Mapline
Five alternativesAlignMix, Apptivo, HubSpot CRM, MapBusinessOnline, Pipedrive
CaptivateIQ
Six alternativesAnaplan, Fullcast, Maptive, Salesforce Maps, Salesforce Sales Planning, eSpatial
against: Anaplan, Badger Maps, CaptivateIQ, Plotly, Salesforce Sales Planning/Maps, Spreadsheets, Varicent
Mistral SmallFullcast, QuotaPath
Three alternativesAnaplan Territory & Quota Planning, Everstage, Varicent
against: Xactly
EverstageChanged
Four alternativesCaptivateIQ, Performio, QuotaPath, Salesforce Spiff
Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning
Ten alternativesBadger Maps, CaptivateIQ, EasyTerritory, Fullcast, Maptive, SAP Territory and Quota, Salesforce Maps, Spotio, Varicent, eSpatial
Google My Maps + Google Sheets
Three alternativesApptivo, BatchGeo, MapBusinessOnline
Varicent
Five alternativesAnaplan, Fullcast, Salesforce Enterprise Territory Management, Spotio, Xactly AlignStar
against: Salesforce Sales Planning, Spreadsheet-Dependent "Solutions", Territory Manager
DeepSeek V4 FlashFullcast
Two alternativesCaptivateIQ, Salesforce Sales Planning + Territory Management
against: Anaplan, MapBusinessOnline, Maptive, Oracle SPM, Pigment, QuotaPath, Varicent, Xactly, eSpatial
Salesforce SpiffChanged
Three alternativesCaptivateIQ, Everstage, QuotaPath
against: Anaplan, Varicent, Xactly
CaptivateIQ, Fullcast
Seven alternativesAnaplan, Badger Maps, Geopointe, Maptive, Varicent, Xactly, eSpatial
against: Salesforce Maps
Apptivo, MapBusinessOnline
Six alternativesGoogle My Maps, Google Sheets/Excel, Mapline, Maptitude, Maptive, QuotaPath
against: AlignMix, Anaplan, CaptivateIQ, EasyTerritory, Fullcast, Salesforce Maps, Salesforce Starter Suite, Varicent, Workday Adaptive, Xactly, eSpatial
no first choice
Four alternativesFullcast, Lative, Leved, Revcast
against: Anaplan, Pigment, Varicent, Xactly
against: Anaplan, SAP Territory & Quota, SalesRabbit, Salesforce Sales Planning, Spotio, SugarCRM, Varicent, Workday Adaptive Planning, Xactly, Zoho CRM
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceCaptivateIQChangedCaptivateIQ
Seven alternativesAnaplan, Fullcast, QuotaPath, Salesforce Maps, Varicent, Vena, Workday Adaptive Planning
no first choiceno first choiceagainst: Anaplan, CaptivateIQ, Rev Planning Agent
Qwen 3.7 FlashCaptivateIQ
Two alternativesSalesRabbit, Territory Helper
CaptivateIQHeld
Two alternativesQuotaWise, VCM
against: Xactly
CaptivateIQ
Seven alternativesAnaplan, Fullcast, Maptive, SAP Territory & Quota, Workday Adaptive Planning, ZoomInfo, eSpatial
eSpatial
Three alternativesMapBusinessOnline, Mapline, Maptive
CaptivateIQ, Forma.ai
Six alternativesAnaplan, Jedox, Maptive, Pigment, Varicent, eSpatial
against: Oracle Financials, Planorama, SAP Commissions, Salesforce Maps, Veeva Vault
Kimi K2Fullcast, Pigment
One alternativeCaptivateIQ
against: Jedox, Varicent, Xactly
CaptivateIQChanged
Two alternativesEverstage, QuotaPath
against: Xactly
no first choice
Eight alternativesAnaplan, BoogieBoard, CaptivateIQ Planning, Fullcast, Lative, Salesforce Maps, Varicent, Xactly
HubSpot CRM, Zoho CRM
Four alternativesBigin by Zoho, Freshsales, Pipedrive, Spreadsheets
against: Anaplan, Fullcast, Xactly
CaptivateIQ, Fullcast
Two alternativesSalesRabbit, Varicent
against: Anaplan, Workday Adaptive
nothing named
GLM 4.7 FlashXFullcast
Two alternativesSalesforce Sales Planning / Territory Planning Add-On, Vena
against: Anaplan Territory & Quota Planning, Varicent
CaptivateIQ, QuotaPathChangedno first choiceHubSpot CRM
Seven alternativesApptivo, Bitrix24, Freshsales, Nutshell, Pipedrive, QuotaPath, Salesmate
Fullcast
Four alternativesAnaplan, CaptivateIQ, Salesforce Sales Planning, Varicent
against: SalesRabbit
MiniMax M2.5CaptivateIQ
Three alternativesFullcast, SalesRabbit, Varicent
CaptivateIQ, EverstageChanged
One alternativeQobra
no first choiceInstaMaps
Four alternativesApptivo, Google Earth Pro, MapBusinessOnline, Mapline
no first choiceagainst: Native Salesforce Tools
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 02:45yes87 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 04:29yes47 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 04:44yes2628 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:00yes187 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 03:05yes08 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 00:57yes012 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 03:25yes049 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 01:30yes02 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 03:47yes026 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 04:16yes045 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:24yes0106 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 04:51yes024 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 00:47no04 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:38yes55 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-14 22:56yes1222 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:11yes195 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 02:49yes08 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:22yes010 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 04:22yes022 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:25yes01 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-14 22:58no031 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:59yes031 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:19yes043 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 04:14yes013 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 04:49yes812 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 04:56yes47 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 04:15yes1727 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:32yes207 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-14 23:04yes09 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-14 23:12yes08 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 02:58yes024 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 01:45yes03 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 00:30yes031 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:09yes071 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 00:17yes095 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 00:19yes023 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 04:19yes1211 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-14 23:14yes36 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 04:28yes2525 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:14yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 04:05yes010 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-14 23:14yes010 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 04:43yes019 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 04:08yes02 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:36yes064 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-14 23:01yes038 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 02:03yes0251 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 00:48yes015 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 04:18no05 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-14 23:06no011 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-14 22:55yes1224 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 04:50yes207 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 03:53yes08 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 02:36yes06 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 03:12yes037 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 22:52yes02 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-14 23:44yes063 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-14 23:49yes028 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 02:43yes017 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 01:08yes014 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 00:35no02 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 02:50yes55 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 01:23yes3026 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 02:32yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-15 02:49yes09 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 03:04yes09 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 03:17yes0109 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 04:51yes03 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-14 22:57no035 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 04:39yes037 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 04:16yes070 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 00:32yes017 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
Oracle read as Oracle Sales Planning
SAP read as SAP Commissions
Salesforce read as Salesforce Maps
Salesforce (Territory Management/Maps + Sales Planning) read as Salesforce Maps
Salesforce (Territory Planning / Maps / ETM) read as Salesforce Maps
Unresolved, counted raw
Clari Align
Clevenue
Google My Maps + Google Sheets
Grosspoint
Leved
Native Salesforce Tools
Oracle Financials
Planorama
Plotly
QuotaWise
Rev Planning Agent
Salesforce / Agentforce Sales
Salesforce Maps / Territory Planning
Salesforce Sales Planning + Territory Management
Salesforce Sales Planning / Territory Planning Add-On
Salesforce Starter Suite
Spreadsheet-Dependent "Solutions"
Territory Manager (by unspecified vendor)
VCM (Vinculum)
Veeva Vault
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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