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Index Vendors › Contently · September 2026 Edition
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Contently

58Judge labels
0First choices
20Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Content marketing for mid-market buyers
Rank 19 of 159 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 25% of its 20 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In content marketing · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Contently 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Content marketing platformsMarketing0%19 of 15925%20criticized challenger
Digital adoption and onboardingCustomer0%30 of 580%1under 10 labels · led by Userpilot at 29%
Sales enablement and contentSales0%63 of 810%1under 10 labels · led by Dock at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Contently 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 Contently across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01034
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast01102
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash02024
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash02002
Kimi K201102
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
MiniMax M2.500101

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
Direct9 labelsNone
Paraphrase8 labelsNone
Comparative20 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained7 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative58 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“managed/enterprise platforms with vetted freelance networks; custom-priced... Good if content *production at scale* with outside talent is your model.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Content marketing · scale prompt · alternative
“Focuses heavily on integrating with CMS/Knowledge bases (Confluence, SharePoint). Good if you already have lots of written docs.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Digital adoption · scale prompt · alternative
“Choose Contently if you need compliance-ready content management with a vetted talent network.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Content marketing · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for: High-volume content creation and highly regulated industries (finance, healthcare).” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Content marketing · comparative 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.

“like HubSpot, Contently, or Kapost is usually out of the question—these tools can quickly scale into hundreds or thousands of dollars per month” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Content marketing · budget prompt · soft negative
“without the excessive cost and administrative overhead of enterprise-level software (like Optimizely CMP or Contently)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Content marketing · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Users report layered/obscure pricing, agency markups, poor support, and a clunky interface.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Content marketing · negative prompt · soft negative
“typically starting around $3,000/mo — this may be on the higher end for mid-market” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Content marketing · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Contently, over the 58 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Contently was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
HubSpot Content Hub35 of 5814Not in the top three
CoSchedule30 of 585Not in the top three
Semrush20 of 581Not in the top three
StoryChief19 of 583Not in the top three
Skyword18 of 580Not in the top three
Adobe GenStudio15 of 580Not in the top three
Seismic13 of 580Not in the top three
Optimizely CMP12 of 581Not in the top three
Optimizely CMS10 of 582Not in the top three
Jasper10 of 580Not 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 Contently. 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 6 of the 58 answers that named Contently and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com6
blog.hubspot.com5
eesel.ai5
influencermarketinghub.com3
storychief.io3
thecmo.com3
toolradar.com3
trysight.ai3
contentgrip.com2
dupple.com2

Thirty-five of the thirty-five domain citations in answers naming Contently came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Contently

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Contently; a claim can dispute any of them.
Skyword / Contently 1
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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 Contently'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 Contently, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at contently.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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