Every category where a model named Chili Piper 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
Meeting scheduling	Sales	12%	3 of 77	21%	34	accepted challenger
Lead routing and management	Sales	11%	3 of 104	22%	46	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Chili Piper 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 Chili Piper 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	4	0	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	1	2	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	4	5	1	1	11
Perplexity Sonar	0	6	0	1	7
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	5	0	2	8
Mistral Small	2	3	1	1	7
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	6	0	3	9
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	2	1	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	1	1	0	4
Kimi K2	3	2	1	4	10
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	3	1	1	6
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	2	3	7

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

Direct63 labels14

Paraphrase41 labels2

Comparative43 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained36 labelsNone

Scale-constrained40 labels10

Negative26 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative249 labels in all, every segment counted; 26 of the 32 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.

“If you have >500 inbound leads/month and use Salesforce: Start a trial of Chili Piper. The speed-to-lead advantage at scale usually outweighs the cost.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scheduling · direct prompt · first choice

“The gold standard for form-to-routing automation. Deep CRM integration; ideal if you drive massive inbound volume via forms. Higher cost.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scheduling · scale prompt · first choice

“For most mid-market B2B companies, I recommend starting with Chili Piper as your primary routing and scheduling tool.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Lead routing · direct prompt · first choice

“Chili Piper: *Best for complex B2B sales routing.* ... Chili Piper is the enterprise standard.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scheduling · 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.

“Avoid These for Mid-Market - Chili Piper: Now starts at $15,000/year minimum ... overkill for most mid-sized companies” Kimi K2 · Scheduling · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“full Chili Piper suites can be incredibly frustrating, as they often require five-figure annual contracts” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Lead routing · budget prompt · hard negative

“What to Avoid on a Limited Budget - Chili Piper — Now starts at $15,000/year minimum” Kimi K2 · Lead routing · budget prompt · hard negative

“Avoid for Limited Budgets - Chili Piper — starts at $15,000/year (enterprise pricing)” MiniMax M2.5 · Lead routing · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Chili Piper, over the 249 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Chili Piper was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

LeanData124 of 24945Compare →

Calendly118 of 24963Compare →

RevenueHero86 of 24911Not in the top three

LeadAngel74 of 24915Compare →

HubSpot Sales Hub72 of 24921Not in the top three

Cal.com67 of 24911Not in the top three

HubSpot Meetings67 of 2498Compare →

Default53 of 2493Not in the top three

Kubaru50 of 24912Not in the top three

Distribution Engine41 of 2493Not 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 Chili Piper. 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 44 of the 249 answers that named Chili Piper and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com22

leadangel.com19

cal.com17

cleverly.co14

blog.hubspot.com13

marketbetter.ai13

calendly.com12

leandata.com11

youcanbook.me11

albato.com10

142 of the 142 domain citations in answers naming Chili Piper came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/lead-routing-software11

albato.com/blog/publications/best-appointment-scheduling-software-sales-pipeline10

articsledge.com/post/lead-routing-software10

improvado.io/blog/the-best-lead-management-software10

cal.com/blog/lead-routing-software9

croclub.com/tools/best-lead-routing-software9

leadangel.com/blog/abm/best-lead-routing-software9

revenuehero.io/blog/best-meeting-scheduling-software9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Chili Piper

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

Chili Piper (Distro) 4Chili Piper/ChiliCal 1

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