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Experian Address Validation

10Judge labels
2First choices
0Negative labels
6 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
3 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Experian Address Validation was named 3 times in Address verification, where Smarty led with 47%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In address verification · 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 Experian Address Validation 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 rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Address verification toolsGTM data and infrastructure2%9 of 1080%3under 10 labels · led by Smarty at 47%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Experian Address Validation yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Experian Address Validation across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small10001
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct5 labels1
Paraphrase1 label1
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“Experian Address Validation and Melissa Global Address Verification are the top recommendations” Mistral Small · Address verification · direct prompt · first choice
“Experian Address Validation - Best for Compliance” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Address verification · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Experian Address Validation, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Experian Address Validation was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Smarty8 of 102Not among the top eight
PostGrid Address Verification6 of 101Not among the top eight
Loqate3 of 100Not among the top eight
Lob2 of 100Not among the top eight
Melissa2 of 100Not among the top eight
Melissa Global Address Verification2 of 100Not among the top eight
Melissa's Global Address Verification API2 of 100Not among the top eight
Informatica DaaS1 of 101Not among the top eight
Melissa Global Address Verification API1 of 101Not among the top eight
Byteplant Address Validator1 of 100Not among the top eight
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 Experian Address Validation. 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 10 of the 10 answers that named Experian Address Validation and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

melissa.com9
g2.com6
guideflow.com6
apollotechnical.com5
radar.com5
gitnux.org4
shuftipro.com4
smarty.com4
softwareadvice.com4
worldmetrics.org4

Fifty-one of the fifty-one domain citations in answers naming Experian Address Validation came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

experian.com ranks 9 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Experian Address Validation takes 2% of first choices and Smarty takes 47%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “address verification tool”
9
Position for “best address verification tool”
–
not in the top ten
Its company's site
experian.com shared with Experian's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site
about 11,578,864 a month
Searches its site ranks for
443,514 · 43,825 in the top three
Sites linking to it
69,293
Paid Google search
6 searches its ads show for, about 221 clicks and $1,386 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
96+ ads · 62 video, 24 text, 10 image · 96 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as ConsumerInfo.com, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 80 in the year, 16 before. 24 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
2%
rank 9 of 108 in address verification
Segment leader
47%
Smarty
First choices
2 across its categories
Named in
10 answers
Its own site cited
in 10 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.

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The company

Experian is the company behind Experian Address Validation.
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On record

Wikidata
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1980
Employees
about 17,000 (2015)
Ownership
Public, EXPN on London Stock Exchange

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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  • where Experian Address Validation 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 Experian Address Validation, 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.
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