Every category where a model named Cision 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%	65 of 65	55%	44	criticized challenger

Movement

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

Direct26 labelsNone

Paraphrase26 labels8

Comparative27 labels7not counted in share

Budget-constrained19 labels3

Scale-constrained16 labelsNone

Negative31 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative145 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 18 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.

“Choose Meltwater/Cision for full PR (monitoring + distribution)” Grok 4.1 Fast · PR · comparative prompt · first choice

“Enterprise PR + social in one place → Meltwater or Cision” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PR · comparative prompt · first choice

“Best all-in-one enterprise PR suite: Cision” GPT-5.4 mini · PR · comparative prompt · first choice

“like Muck Rack or Cision, which include tech-focused media contacts and trade publication coverage” Claude Haiku 4.5 · PR · direct 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.

“Avoid Meltwater and Cision unless you have specific needs that outweigh their significant contract risks and outdated technology.” Mistral Small · PR · negative prompt · hard negative

“you want to avoid both low-end tools that lack a high-quality global database, and bloated legacy enterprise systems (like Cision)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PR · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“users have reported a severe decline in customer service... media database... riddled with "dead" contacts” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PR · negative prompt · hard negative

“Enterprise-leaning like Cision (~$10K–$30K/year, 3.9/5); avoid unless scaling globally.” Grok 4.1 Fast · PR · direct prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cision, over the 145 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cision was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Meltwater136 of 14523Not in the top three

Muck Rack103 of 14519Not in the top three

Brand2471 of 14528Not in the top three

Brandwatch62 of 1450Not in the top three

Semrush AI PR Toolkit61 of 14520Not in the top three

Mention56 of 1459Not in the top three

Talkwalker43 of 1450Not in the top three

Onclusive37 of 1451Not in the top three

Agility PR Solutions36 of 1454Not in the top three

Google Alerts31 of 1452Not 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 Cision. 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 145 answers that named Cision and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

prlab.co16

guideflow.com14

gartner.com12

meltwater.com12

brand24.com11

cloro.dev10

learn.g2.com10

onclusive.com10

improvado.io9

pr.co9

113 of the 113 domain citations in answers naming Cision came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

prlab.co/blog/the-best-media-monitoring-tools-for-news-and-social-media15

gartner.com/reviews/market/pr-and-media-monitoring-tools12

guideflow.com/blog/media-monitoring-software11

cloro.dev/blog/media-monitoring-tools10

improvado.io/blog/best-digital-pr-tools-and-software9

brand24.com/blog/media-monitoring-tools8

newsdata.io/blog/media-monitoring-tools8

prlab.co/blog/best-pr-tools8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cision

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

Cision (CisionOne) 7Cision / CisionOne 1Cision/CisionOne 1

The company

Cision.

Website: cision.com
Headquarters: Chicago, United States
Founded: 1867
Ownership: Public, CISN on New York Stock Exchange

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

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