| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contact center platforms | Customer | 18% | 1 of 86 | 18% | 50 | accepted challenger | |
| Sales dialers and calling | Sales | 0% | 23 of 75 | 10% | 10 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AI voice agents | Customer | 0% | 32 of 103 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Retell AI at 27% |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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
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
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.
601 of the 601 domain citations in answers naming Five9 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 | 1,004 | undated | CRM | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 277 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 190 | undated | CRM | ||
| Report or ebook | 186 | undated | CRM | ||
| Case study | 96 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 44 | undated | |||
| News or press | 10 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 7 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 4 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 3 | undated |
As the event pages on five9.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
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.
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 · Crunchbase
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.
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.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Five9 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
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.
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.