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Index › Vendors › AnswerThePublic · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

AnswerThePublic

9Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. AnswerThePublic was named 5 times in SEO and 1 other category, where Surfer SEO led with 25%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business19 of 103

under the label threshold

Mid-market32 of 113

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In seo · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named AnswerThePublic 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
SEO and content optimization platforms	Marketing	0%	32 of 113	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Surfer SEO at 25%
Content marketing platforms	Marketing	0%	44 of 159	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by HubSpot Content Hub at 30%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for AnswerThePublic 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 AnswerThePublic across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“AnswerThePublic → Discover content ideas” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Content marketing · budget prompt · alternative

“AnswerThePublic (Risk Score 11/100)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SEO · negative prompt · alternative

“Ubersuggest, AnswerThePublic” Mistral Small · SEO · negative prompt · alternative

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as AnswerThePublic, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AnswerThePublic was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ubersuggest7 of 92Not in the top three

Google Search Console7 of 90Not in the top three

Surfer SEO6 of 92Not in the top three

Google Analytics 46 of 90Not in the top three

Semrush6 of 90Not in the top three

SE Ranking5 of 92Not in the top three

Ahrefs4 of 90Not in the top three

Frase4 of 90Not in the top three

Mangools3 of 92Not in the top three

Clearscope3 of 91Not 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.

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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 AnswerThePublic'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 AnswerThePublic, 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 answerthepublic.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.