Every category where a model named Channelscaler 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	Since September 2026
Partner relationship management	Partner and channel	16%	3 of 61	18%	38	accepted challenger	▲+16Since September 2026: 2% → 18%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
Channel partner and local marketing	Partner and channel	10%	1 of 124	13%	23	accepted challenger	▼−1Since September 2026: 12% → 12%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Referral and partner programs	Partner and channel	0%	25 of 112	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by PartnerStack at 22%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

Since September 2026, Channelscaler moved past the floor in one of three categories: PRM, +16 points to 18%. It held within the floor in the other two.

Best category · PRM · by segment

Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

2%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 46 → 13 of 67

Mid-market▲+16Since September 2026: 2% → 18%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.

18%from 2% in September 2026

Cleared the floor by 5 pointsRank 9 → 2 of 59

Enterprise▲+7Since September 2026: 4% → 11%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

11%from 4% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 5 → 4 of 53

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
PRM	2%	18%	▲+16Since September 2026: 2% → 18%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.	Moved past the floor	Rank 9 → 3 of 61
Channel marketing	12%	12%	▼−1Since September 2026: 12% → 12%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 2 → 1 of 124
Referrals	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 25 of 112, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Channelscaler across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	2	1	5
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	3	1	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	2	0	3
Grok 4.20	0	2	2	2	6
Mistral Small	1	2	1	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	4	1	2	9
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	2	0	0	4
Kimi K2	5	3	1	2	11
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	3	1	0	6
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	2	0	5
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	4	0	2	6

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

Direct26 labels8

Paraphrase27 labels6

Comparative39 labelsNone

Budget-constrained18 labels5

Scale-constrained20 labels3

Negative19 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative149 labels in all, every segment counted; 22 of the 23 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 today, Allbound offers the best balance of price, ease of implementation, and partner engagement.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PRM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I recommend starting with Channeltivity or Allbound as they offer the best balance of features, usability, and value” GLM 4.7 FlashX · PRM · direct prompt · first choice

“Start with Allbound or Zift Solutions. Allbound if you need equal emphasis on partner sales enablement and marketing” Kimi K2 · Channel marketing · direct prompt · first choice

“For a 500-person company, mid-market PRMs like Allbound, Impartner, or Zift are often the best fit” Mistral Small · PRM · scale 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.

“Allbound require custom pricing and typically run $1,000+/month, making them unsuitable for limited budgets” Kimi K2 · PRM · budget prompt · hard negative

“Are merging/rebranding products (Channelscaler's current instability)” Kimi K2 · PRM · negative prompt · hard negative

“These would be overkill for a company with a limited budget.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PRM · budget prompt · hard negative

“What to Avoid on a Limited Budget” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PRM · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Channelscaler, over the 147 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Channelscaler was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Impartner PRM124 of 14738Compare →

ZINFI Unified Partner Management83 of 14711Compare →

PartnerStack81 of 1478Compare →

Salesforce PRM66 of 14712Not among the top eight

Unifyr56 of 1479Compare →

Channeltivity56 of 1475Compare →

Kiflo PRM46 of 14711Compare →

PartnerPortal.io29 of 14713Compare →

impact.com29 of 1470Not among the top eight

Mindmatrix21 of 1471Compare →

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Channelscaler. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 136 of the 147 answers that named Channelscaler and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com87

zinfi.com79

guideflow.com70

journeybee.io57

partnerportal.io56

learn.g2.com53

monday.com41

articsledge.com38

channelinsider.com35

introw.io31

547 of the 547 domain citations in answers naming Channelscaler came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/best-prm-software56

learn.g2.com/best-prm-software51

partnerportal.io/best-prm-software50

channelinsider.com/channel-business/helpdesk-itsm-and-other-tools/prm-software35

g2.com/categories/partner-relationship-management-prm34

monday.com/blog/crm-and-sales/prm-software34

partnerfleet.io/blog/best-prm-tools-for-your-partner-program29

zinfi.com/blog/best-prm-software-ultimate-guide28

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

channelscaler.com ranks 9 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Channelscaler takes 16% of first choices and PartnerPortal.io takes 22%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “partner relationship management platform”

Position for “best partner relationship management platform”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 260 a month (“channelscaler”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 3 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 948 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 316 · 22 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 297
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 6 clicks and $279 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

15 ads · 15 text · 13 shown in the last 30 days

First shown June 2025, as Channelscaler Limited, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 11 in the year, 4 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

16%

rank 3 of 61 in PRM

Segment leader

22%

PartnerPortal.io

First choices: 22 across its categories
Named in: 147 answers
Its own site cited: in 136 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on channelscaler.com

412

subdomains included

Content

338

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

34 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Blog	149	undated	PRM
Podcast or video	80	undated	PRM
Report or ebook	49	undated	PRM
Webinar or virtual event	29	undated	PRM
News or press	22	undated	PRM
Comparison	5	undated	PRM
Case study	1	undated
Conference or event	1	undated
Template or tool	1	undated
Glossary or explainer	1	undated	PRM

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page channelscaler.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Names read as Channelscaler

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

Allbound 45ChannelScaler 3Allbound (Channelscaler) 2Allbound (now ChannelScaler) 2Allbound (now Channelscaler) 2Allbound / Channelscaler 2Channelscaler (formerly Allbound) 2Allbound (now ChannelScaller) 1Allbound (now known as Channelscaler) 1ChannelScaler (formerly Allbound) 1Channelscaler (formerly Allbound + Channel Mechanics) 1Channelscaler (formerly Channel Mechanics + Allbound) 1Impartner/Allbound (Channelscaler) 1

Follow Channelscaler

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Channelscaler.

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On record

Wikidata

Website: channelscaler.com
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2010

Fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · LinkedIn

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: PRM and Channel Program Automation Platform
channelscaler.com
For: Enterprise channel leaders
channelscaler.com
Price stated: Channelscaler is priced per program, with no usage based fees, no bundles, and no add-ons. channelscaler.com/pricing
Starting price: $50k per module annually channelscaler.com/pricing
Certifications: AMTIVO ISO 27001 CertifiedSOC Compliance Assured (1)certified Microsoft partnerAzure benefit eligible Marketplace solutionISO/IEC 27001:2022SOC 1 Type 2SOC 2 Type 2
Hosting: EUUS
Customers named: Ribbon CommunicationsExtreme NetworksSentinelOneOptivMitsubishi ElectricMitelClouderaJuniper Networks
Not stated on the pages read: Free plan or trial, integrations

What Channelscaler's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: channelscaler.com, channelscaler.com/pricing, trust.channelscaler.com, channelscaler.com/platforms/integrations, channelscaler.com/resources/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of 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 Channelscaler'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 Channelscaler, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Channelscaler by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Channelscaler is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Channelscaler, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Channelscaler is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Partner relationship management

Channelscaler is among the products AI models recommend first in Partner relationship management this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/partner/partner-relationship-management/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/channelscaler--partner-relationship-management-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Partner relationship management, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Partner relationship management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/partner/partner-relationship-management/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/channelscaler--partner-relationship-management-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Partner relationship management, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Partner relationship management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/partner/partner-relationship-management/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/channelscaler--partner-relationship-management-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Partner relationship management, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

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Channel partner and local marketing

AI models recommend Channelscaler first in Channel partner and local marketing this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/partner/channel-partner-and-local-marketing/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/channelscaler--channel-partner-and-local-marketing-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Channel partner and local marketing, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Channel partner and local marketing standing, where the claim can be checked.

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/partner/channel-partner-and-local-marketing/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/channelscaler--channel-partner-and-local-marketing-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Channel partner and local marketing, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Channel partner and local marketing standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/partner/channel-partner-and-local-marketing/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/channelscaler--channel-partner-and-local-marketing-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Channel partner and local marketing, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Channel partner and local marketing standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.