| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing resource management | Marketing | 13% | 2 of 110 | 17% | 24 | accepted challenger | |
| Client onboarding platforms | Customer | 11% | 3 of 104 | 17% | 29 | accepted challenger | |
| Sales enablement and content | Sales | 4% | 6 of 72 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by HubSpot Sales Hub at 29% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 5% now. |
| Content marketing platforms | Marketing | 4% | 7 of 135 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by HubSpot Content Hub at 33% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Knowledge base and self-service | Customer | 2% | 15 of 88 | 8% | 12 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workflow automation and iPaaS | GTM data and infrastructure | 2% | 11 of 67 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Workato at 28% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Event management platforms | Marketing | 0% | 53 of 81 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Bizzabo at 28% |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“The best client onboarding platform for a company with a limited budget is ClickUp, which offers a free plan and paid plans starting at $7/user/month.” Llama 4 Maverick · Client onboarding · budget prompt · first choice
“My recommendation: Start with HubSpot Sales Hub or ClickUp - both offer strong free/freemium tiers” MiniMax M2.5 · Sales enablement · budget prompt · first choice
“ClickUp (Best Overall Value) ... I'd recommend starting with: 1. ClickUp or Notion” MiniMax M2.5 · Knowledge base · budget prompt · first choice
“ClickUp (Best All-Around Value) ... best balance between high-end features and affordability” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Marketing resource mgt · budget prompt · first choice
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.
“Users have criticized ClickUp specifically for lacking basic organizational features like "sub-folders," making deep knowledge bases messy” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Knowledge base · negative prompt · hard negative
“Tools like Jira or ClickUp are built for internal developers or project managers—not external clients.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Client onboarding · negative prompt · hard negative
“they are not true MRMs... lack automated financial reconciliation/ledger-level budget tracking” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Marketing resource mgt · negative prompt · hard negative
“These are general project management tools, not onboarding platforms” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Client onboarding · negative prompt · hard negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 202 of the 206 answers that named ClickUp and are not a share of its labels.
517 of the 628 domain citations in answers naming ClickUp came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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.
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 15,947 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2,333 | 0 | 2026-04-08 | ||
| Comparison | 1,978 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 241 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 85 | 0 | 2026-04-03 | ||
| Case study | 74 | 0 | 2025-11-07 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 59 | 0 | 2025-05-09 | ||
| Podcast or video | 48 | 0 | 2026-03-15 | ||
| News or press | 24 | 0 | 2025-11-22 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 15 | 2 | 2026-09-11 |
Every page clickup.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.
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.
Fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · LinkedIn · Crunchbase
What ClickUp's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: clickup.com, clickup.com/pricing, clickup.com/security, clickup.com/features/ai, clickup.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 ClickUp'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 ClickUp, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for ClickUp by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
ClickUp is among the products AI models recommend first in Marketing resource 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.
ClickUp is among the products AI models recommend first in Client onboarding platforms 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.
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.