Every category where a model named Afluencer for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Influencer platforms	Marketing	12%	2 of 79	16%	19	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Afluencer yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Afluencer across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	1	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	1	2
Mistral Small	1	0	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	2	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1	0	2

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative12 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained21 labels9

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative50 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 13 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Platforms like Afluencer, CreatorHunter, and ImpulzeAI are affordable, easy to use, and offer great value for startups or small brands without huge budgets.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Influencer · budget prompt · first choice

“the best choice is usually Afluencer if you want the lowest barrier to entry and a free way to start running campaigns” Perplexity Sonar · Influencer · budget prompt · first choice

“Start with Afluencer — It offers the best combination of free features and low cost” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Influencer · budget prompt · first choice

“Afluencer or GRIN's free plan stand out as the best influencer marketing platforms” Grok 4.1 Fast · Influencer · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Creator subscription fees and poor interface were criticized by users; smaller creators were advised to steer clear.” Perplexity Sonar · Influencer · negative prompt · hard negative

“Reddit threads label it "sketchy" or "a bit of a scam"” Grok 4.1 Fast · Influencer · negative prompt · hard negative

“4. Afluencer ⚠️ LOW-MODERATE CAUTION” Kimi K2 · Influencer · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Afluencer, over the 50 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Afluencer was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Shopify Collabs30 of 502Not in the top three

HypeAuditor28 of 501Not in the top three

Modash27 of 507Not in the top three

GRIN26 of 502Compare →

Upfluence23 of 501Not in the top three

Heepsy21 of 501Not in the top three

Aspire21 of 500Not in the top three

Collabstr20 of 504Not in the top three

CreatorIQ18 of 501Not in the top three

Influencity16 of 500Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Afluencer. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 11 of the 50 answers that named Afluencer and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.g2.com8

guideflow.com7

influee.co7

sproutsocial.com7

influencermarketinghub.com5

litcommerce.com5

archive.com4

reddit.com4

shopify.com4

toolradar.com4

Fifty-five of the fifty-five domain citations in answers naming Afluencer came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/influencer-marketing-platforms7

learn.g2.com/free-influencer-marketing-platforms7

sproutsocial.com/insights/influencer-marketing-platforms6

influee.co/blog/influencer-marketing-platforms5

influencermarketinghub.com/top-influencer-marketing-platforms5

litcommerce.com/blog/best-influencer-marketing-platforms5

influencermarketinghub.com/micro-influencer-platform4

toolradar.com/guides/best-influencer-marketing-platforms4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Afluencer's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Afluencer, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at afluencer.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.