Every category where a model named Fast Simon 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	Since September 2026
Ecommerce search and merchandising	Marketing	0%	20 of 74	11%	9	under 10 labels · led by Algolia at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Fast Simon 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 Fast Simon across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	0	2
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	1	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative7 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained9 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative11 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

“High-rated alternatives like Algolia, Klevu, Clerk.io, Luigi's Box, or Fast Simon score well on G2” Grok 4.1 Fast · Ecommerce search · negative prompt · alternative

“Fast Simon is the "budget alternative" to enterprise giants like Klevu or Bloomreach.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Ecommerce search · budget prompt · alternative

“Shopify-focused with strong merchandising; transparent pricing for mid-small stores.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Ecommerce search · budget prompt · alternative

“Fast Simon – Best Mid-Market Alternative” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Ecommerce search · budget 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.

“It is viable for teams that can maintain disciplined merchandising governance, but not for teams that want a low-touch, set-and-forget solution.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Ecommerce search · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Fast Simon, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Fast Simon was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Algolia29 of 316Not among the top eight

Doofinder24 of 319Not among the top eight

Klevu21 of 311Not among the top eight

Bloomreach Discovery20 of 312Not among the top eight

Searchspring16 of 311Not among the top eight

Searchanise13 of 317Not among the top eight

Coveo13 of 311Not among the top eight

Luigi's Box10 of 310Not among the top eight

Constructor9 of 311Not among the top eight

Clerk.io9 of 310Not 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 Fast Simon. 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 31 of the 31 answers that named Fast Simon and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com22

ringly.io22

netguru.com20

clerk.io16

gitnux.org15

learn.g2.com14

marketmaze.me14

valiantceo.com14

g2.com12

theretailexec.com12

161 of the 161 domain citations in answers naming Fast Simon came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ringly.io/blog/searchspring-alternatives21

guideflow.com/blog/best-ecommerce-search-software20

netguru.com/blog/ecommerce-search-solutions-product-discovery18

gitnux.org/best/ecommerce-merchandising-software15

learn.g2.com/best-e-merchandising-software14

marketmaze.me/p/tools-ecommerce-site-search14

valiantceo.com/the-7-best-ecommerce-search-and-discovery-platforms14

theretailexec.com/tools/best-ecommerce-search-software11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

fastsimon.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Fast Simon takes 0% of first choices and Algolia takes 25%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “best ecommerce search and merchandising platform”

Searches for its name, Google: 260 a month (“fast simon”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 39 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 2,963 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 761 · 33 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 6,601
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

2 ads · 2 text · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2026, as Fast Simon Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 2 in the year.

On Google's pages: 1 2

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 20 of 74 in ecommerce search

Segment leader

25%

Algolia

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 31 answers
Its own site cited: in 31 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on fastsimon.com

1,019

subdomains included

Content

122

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

5 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
News or press	31	3	2026-09-22
Comparison	30	2	2026-07-17
Glossary or explainer	22	0	2026-04-23
Conference or event	12	0	2024-09-15
Blog	9	0	2026-02-23
Case study	9	0	2026-03-09
Report or ebook	8	6	2026-07-20
Webinar or virtual event	1	0	2025-04-30

Most recent

2026-09-22Fast simon streamlines cross border merchandising within shopify markets news or press
2026-09-09Poq and fast simon announce partnership to bring ai powered search and personalization to native mobile commerce news or press
2026-09-01In time for black friday and cyber monday fast simon launches studio generative ai that creates on brand merchandising a news or press
2026-07-20Ai shopping agents complete guide report or ebook
2026-07-20Upsell cross sell ecommerce guide report or ebook
2026-07-20Ecommerce ab testing guide report or ebook

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page fastsimon.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 October 5, 2026.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Fast Simon by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Fast Simon 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 Fast Simon, 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.