Every category where a model named BuzzSumo 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
PR and media monitoring	Marketing	0%	18 of 65	14%	7	under 10 labels · led by Muck Rack at 24%
Content marketing platforms	Marketing	0%	34 of 159	0%	4	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 BuzzSumo 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 BuzzSumo across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative15 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 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.

“content marketing platforms that are considered to be effective, such as BuzzSumo, CoSchedule, and Outgrow” Llama 4 Maverick · Content marketing · negative prompt · alternative

“moving toward Raven Tools or BuzzSumo (for research) combined with distinct social tools” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PR · negative prompt · alternative

“Best for: Smaller budgets or content-focused PR teams” MiniMax M2.5 · PR · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“(content/PR monitoring with clear tiered pricing)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PR · 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.

“BuzzSumo (hourly refresh only)... BuzzSumo (no broadcast)” Grok 4.1 Fast · PR · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as BuzzSumo, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BuzzSumo was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Cision17 of 250Not in the top three

Meltwater17 of 250Not in the top three

Muck Rack14 of 251Not in the top three

Brand2412 of 252Not in the top three

Brandwatch12 of 250Not in the top three

Semrush AI PR Toolkit11 of 251Not in the top three

Mention9 of 251Not in the top three

Agility PR Solutions8 of 251Not in the top three

Google Alerts7 of 251Not in the top three

Hootsuite7 of 250Not 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 BuzzSumo. 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 5 of the 25 answers that named BuzzSumo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com3

prlab.co3

thecmo.com3

agilitypr.com2

blog.hubspot.com2

cloro.dev2

ereleases.com2

guideflow.com2

improvado.io2

newsdata.io2

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

Pages cited

prlab.co/blog/the-best-media-monitoring-tools-for-news-and-social-media3

blog.hubspot.com/website/content-marketing-platform2

cloro.dev/blog/media-monitoring-tools2

ereleases.com/best-media-monitoring-tools-small-businesses-complete-guide2

gartner.com/reviews/market/pr-and-media-monitoring-tools2

guideflow.com/blog/media-monitoring-software2

improvado.io/blog/best-digital-pr-tools-and-software2

newsdata.io/blog/media-monitoring-tools2

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 BuzzSumo'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 BuzzSumo, 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 buzzsumo.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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