Every category where a model named Bonsai 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
Proposal software	Revenue operations	2%	10 of 79	9%	11	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative11 labelsNone

Budget-constrained10 labels3

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative12 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative33 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“Start with Proposally.ai or Bonsai for the absolute lowest cost with full features” Grok 4.1 Fast · Proposals · budget prompt · first choice

“Bonsai (freelancers) or Better Proposals (small teams) offer the best bang for the buck” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Proposals · budget prompt · alternative

“avoid enterprise tools and consider Bonsai, Nusii, or Propal trial instead” Llama 4 Maverick · Proposals · negative prompt · alternative

“If you're a freelancer needing broader business tools → Bonsai” Kimi K2 · Proposals · budget 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.

“Note: Proposals are not the primary focus” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Proposals · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Bonsai, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bonsai was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Better Proposals29 of 335Not in the top three

Proposify28 of 330Not in the top three

PandaDoc27 of 3313Not in the top three

Qwilr21 of 331Not in the top three

Responsive13 of 332Not in the top three

Nusii13 of 330Not in the top three

Prospero12 of 332Not in the top three

Loopio11 of 333Not in the top three

Jotform11 of 330Not in the top three

Proposable10 of 330Not 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 Bonsai. 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 4 of the 33 answers that named Bonsai and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

flowcase.com4

getaccept.com4

autogenai.com3

pandadoc.com3

sifthub.io3

federicopresicci.com2

g2.com2

instructionalsolutions.com2

lindy.ai2

proposal.biz2

Twenty-seven of the twenty-seven domain citations in answers naming Bonsai came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

getaccept.com/blog/proposal-software4

autogenai.com/blog/best-proposal-management-software3

sifthub.io/blog/best-proposal-software-tools3

federicopresicci.com/blog/sales-enablement-technology/best-proposal-software2

flowcase.com/blog/top-10-proposal-management-software-for-small-businesses-20262

flowcase.com/blog/top-proposal-management-solutions-for-enterprise-12-solutions-compared2

getaccept.com/blog/proposal-software-platforms-for-enterprise-sales-teams2

instructionalsolutions.com/blog/best-proposal-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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