Every category where a model named Canto 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
Digital asset management	Marketing	34%	1 of 68	11%	47	endorsed leader

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Canto 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 Canto 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	2	0	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	3	0	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	1	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	1	2	0	5
Mistral Small	1	2	0	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2	0	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	1	1	4
Kimi K2	2	1	1	2	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	1	1	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	0	3

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

Direct28 labels9

Paraphrase24 labels17

Comparative27 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained16 labels2

Scale-constrained10 labels2

Negative11 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative116 labels in all, every segment counted; 30 of the 38 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.

“For most mid-sized B2B companies, I'd recommend Canto first due to its focus on mid-market needs, ease of implementation, and reasonable pricing.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DAM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Top Recommendation: Canto ... offers the best balance of power, usability, AI capabilities, and mid-market-appropriate pricing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DAM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Canto is the strongest fit for mid-market teams that need a capable, AI-forward DAM without enterprise complexity” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DAM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Canto offers the best balance of capabilities, ease of use, implementation speed, and cost-effectiveness” Kimi K2 · DAM · direct 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.

“1. Canto ⚠️ HIGH CAUTION ... Critical Security Vulnerabilities” Kimi K2 · DAM · negative prompt · hard negative

“What to Avoid on a Limited Budget” Kimi K2 · DAM · budget prompt · hard negative

“removed from Gartner's Magic Quadrant because it "failed to meet Gartner's definition of a DAM platform"” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DAM · negative prompt · soft negative

“many users struggle with its search functionality, describing it as clunky” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Canto, over the 116 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Canto was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Bynder89 of 11615Compare →

Brandfolder70 of 1160Not in the top three

Filecamp46 of 11611Compare →

Air45 of 1166Not in the top three

MediaValet43 of 1163Not in the top three

Aprimo41 of 1169Not in the top three

Acquia DAM39 of 1161Not in the top three

Adobe Experience Manager Assets38 of 1163Not in the top three

Frontify35 of 1160Not in the top three

Cloudinary25 of 1160Not 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 Canto. 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 24 of the 116 answers that named Canto and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

canto.comYour site20

frontify.com11

getmasset.com11

celum.com10

thedigitalprojectmanager.com10

cmswire.com9

g2.com9

mediavalet.com9

stockpress.co8

vntana.com8

Eighty-five of the 105 domain citations in answers naming Canto came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

canto.com/blog/top-dam-software15

frontify.com/en/guide/digital-asset-management-software11

getmasset.com/digital-asset-management-software11

celum.com/en/blog/digital-asset-management-systems10

cmswire.com/digital-asset-management/examining-19-enterprise-digital-asset-management-solu9

mediavalet.com/blog/best-digital-asset-management-platform9

thedigitalprojectmanager.com/tools/digital-asset-management-software8

vntana.com/roundup/best-digital-asset-management-software8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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