Every category where a model named Aspire 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	6%	6 of 79	29%	31	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Aspire 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 Aspire 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	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	0	1	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	2	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	3	5
Mistral Small	0	2	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	3	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1	2
Kimi K2	1	2	0	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	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

Direct8 labelsNone

Paraphrase15 labels4

Comparative21 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labelsNone

Scale-constrained11 labels1

Negative14 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative80 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 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.

“All-in-one mid-market/DTC | GRIN, Aspire, Upfluence | ... sweet spot for your size” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Influencer · scale prompt · first choice

“My Top Recommendation: Aspire (formerly AspireIQ)” Kimi K2 · Influencer · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Top Recommendation: Aspire (formerly AspireIQ)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Influencer · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Legitimate influencer marketplaces (like Aspire, Mavrck, or TikTok Creator Marketplace) make their money by charging *brands* SaaS fees” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Influencer · 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.

“Platforms to AVOID on a Limited Budget - Aspire, Upfluence, CreatorIQ \u2014 typically $2,000+ per month” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Influencer · budget prompt · hard negative

“If you value your time, budget, or team's productivity, steer clear.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Influencer · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid: Enterprise tools like Aspire/Upfluence ($2K+/mo)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Influencer · budget prompt · hard negative

“What to skip: GRIN, Aspire, CreatorIQ, and Upfluence” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Influencer · direct prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Aspire, over the 80 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Aspire was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GRIN69 of 808Not in the top three

CreatorIQ63 of 8019Not in the top three

Upfluence53 of 802Not in the top three

Modash47 of 809Not in the top three

Traackr39 of 807Not in the top three

Heepsy23 of 802Not in the top three

HypeAuditor23 of 800Not in the top three

Afluencer21 of 802Not in the top three

Shopify Collabs21 of 802Not in the top three

Favikon19 of 8011Not 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 Aspire. 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 9 of the 80 answers that named Aspire and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aspire.ioYour site5

creatoriq.com5

influee.co4

upfluence.com4

businessofapps.com3

grin.co3

modash.io3

sproutsocial.com3

g2.com2

influencermarketinghub.com2

Twenty-nine of the thirty-four domain citations in answers naming Aspire came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

influee.co/blog/influencer-marketing-platforms4

businessofapps.com/marketplace/influencer-marketing/platforms3

grin.co/compare3

sproutsocial.com/insights/influencer-marketing-platforms3

upfluence.com/pricing3

creatoriq.com/influencer-marketing-solution2

grin.co/news/grin-launches-self-serve-creator-marketing2

influencermarketinghub.com/top-influencer-marketing-platforms2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Aspire

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Aspire; a claim can dispute any of them.

Aspire (formerly AspireIQ) 6Aspire (formerly AspireIQ / Influence.co) 1GRIN/Aspire 1

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