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Five9

213Judge labels
19First choices
52Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
18% in Contact center for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 86 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
6 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 18% of its 50 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Five9 →
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In contact center · 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 Five9 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
Contact center platformsCustomer18%1 of 8618%50accepted challenger
Sales dialers and callingSales0%23 of 7510%10accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
AI voice agentsCustomer0%32 of 1030%2under 10 labels · led by Retell AI at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Five9 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 Five9 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 4.502215
GPT-5.4 mini12014
Gemini 3.5 Flash04004
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.2012317
Mistral Small10304
DeepSeek V4 Flash13127
Llama 4 Maverick01203
Qwen 3.7 Flash12014
Kimi K231015
GLM 4.7 FlashX02215
MiniMax M2.511114
GPT-6 Luna13004
Muse Glimmer 30B02114

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
Direct30 labels7
Paraphrase36 labels8
Comparative59 labels9not counted in share
Budget-constrained25 labels2
Scale-constrained24 labels2
Negative39 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative213 labels in all, every segment counted; 19 of the 29 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.

“my default recommendation would be Five9 or Genesys Cloud, with Five9 as the best "safe" first pick” GPT-5.4 mini · Contact center · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Five9 is the top choice due to its comprehensive omnichannel capabilities and workforce management” Mistral Small · Contact center · direct prompt · first choice
“Genesys Cloud CX or Five9 as the primary contenders (proven mid-market to enterprise scale)” Kimi K2 · Contact center · scale prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend Five9 as a strong starting point among cloud contact center (CCaaS) options.” Grok 4.20 · Contact center · paraphrase prompt · first choice

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.

“has accumulated a significant volume of negative feedback in recent years regarding its transition to fully managed services” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Contact center · negative prompt · hard negative
“Call issues: Frequent call drops and technical disruptions” MiniMax M2.5 · Contact center · negative prompt · hard negative
“Five9 is a reputable CCaaS, but if you prioritize a modern UI, tighter cost control... its cons are worth investigating before committing.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Contact center · negative prompt · soft negative
“Higher cost makes it less accessible for smaller businesses, complexity in initial setup and configuration exists” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Contact center · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Five9, over the 213 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Five9 was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Aircall48 of 21310Not among the top eight
RingCentral Events40 of 2131Not among the top eight
Nextiva31 of 2133Not among the top eight
Orum27 of 2136Not 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 Five9. 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 199 of the 213 answers that named Five9 and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudtalk.io107
justcall.io98
nextiva.com88
g2.com61
cxtoday.com48
aloware.com46
ringcentral.com44
getvoip.com38
genesys.com36
dialpad.com35

601 of the 601 domain citations in answers naming Five9 came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Five9 stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “contact center platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “best contact center platform”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
27,100 a month (“five9”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
677 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 183,461 a month
Searches its site ranks for
7,604 · 1,108 in the top three
Sites linking to it
6,014
Paid Google search
10 searches its ads show for, about 58 clicks and $1,178 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
120+ ads · 117 text, 2 video, 1 image · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown January 2022, as Five 9 Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 3 in the year, 117 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
18%
rank 1 of 86 in contact center
First choices
19
across its categories
Named in
213 answers
Its own site cited
in 199 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on five9.com
3,783
subdomains included
Content
1,821
counted in the table below
Documentation
61
Product · Integration
288 · 114
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog1,004undatedCRM
Glossary or explainer277undated
Webinar or virtual event190undatedCRM
Report or ebook186undatedCRM
Case study96undated
Conference or event44undated
News or press10undated
Podcast or video7undated
Comparison4undated
Template or tool3undated

Events in person

Last twelve months
  • November 17, 2025 to November 19, 2025CX Summit 2025Gaylord Opryland, Nashville, null · took part

As the event pages on five9.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page five9.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.

Names read as Five9

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Five9; a claim can dispute any of them.
Five9 (Five9 Intelligent CX Platform) 1

Follow Five9

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.

The company

Five9 Inc. is the company behind Five9.
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On record

Wikidata
Website
five9.com
Headquarters
San Ramon, United States
Founded
2001
Ownership
Public, FIVN on Nasdaq

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

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Call & Contact Center As A Service (CCaaS) Provider
For
Contact Centers
Price stated
Get a Quote five9.com/solutions/retail
Starting price
119.00 five9.com/customers
Integrations claimed
100 five9.com/partners
Hosting
United StatesEuropeAustraliaCanadaUnited Kingdom
Customers named
Alaska AirlinesCentral BankExact SciencesLumexa ImagingNexrepKyndrylHanna AnderssonAdventHealth
Not stated on the pages read
Free plan or trial, certifications

What Five9's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: five9.com, trust.five9.com, five9.com/solutions/retail, five9.com/customers, five9.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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 Five9'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 Five9, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Five9 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Five9 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 Five9, 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.

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at five9.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Five9 is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
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AI models recommend Five9 first in Contact center 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.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
AI models' first choice in Contact center platforms, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/customer/contact-center-platforms/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/five9--contact-center-platforms-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Contact center platforms, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Contact center platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
AI models' first choice in Contact center platforms, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/customer/contact-center-platforms/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/five9--contact-center-platforms-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Contact center platforms, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Contact center platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
AI models' first choice in Contact center platforms, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index
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<a href="https://gtm-ai-index.com/customer/contact-center-platforms/"><img src="https://gtm-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/five9--contact-center-platforms-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Contact center platforms, October 2026 Edition, GTM AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Contact center platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

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.