Every category where a model named GRIN 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
Influencer platforms	Marketing	10%	3 of 79	39%	38	criticized challenger

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	3	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	1	0	2	6
Mistral Small	1	1	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	4	6
Llama 4 Maverick	2	0	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	3	0	1	4
Kimi K2	0	2	0	2	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	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

Direct11 labelsNone

Paraphrase19 labels3

Comparative30 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained17 labels4

Scale-constrained14 labels5

Negative17 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative108 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 16 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.

“GRIN/Aspire focus on end-to-end workflows like gifting and payments (ideal for scaling DTC)... Choose based on your scale (e.g., GRIN for 50+ creators)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Influencer · comparative prompt · first choice

“The top influencer marketing platforms include GRIN, Upfluence, and CreatorIQ for comprehensive, AI-driven campaign management.” Llama 4 Maverick · Influencer · comparative prompt · first choice

“the recommended creator and influencer management tool for a mid-sized B2B company is GRIN” Llama 4 Maverick · Influencer · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“All-in-one mid-market/DTC | GRIN, Aspire, Upfluence | ... sweet spot for your size” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Influencer · scale 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.

“Do not sign an expensive annual contract with a legacy B2C influencer platform (like GRIN or CreatorIQ).” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Influencer · direct prompt · hard negative

“What to skip: GRIN, Aspire, CreatorIQ, and Upfluence are excellent but built for B2C/e-commerce” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Influencer · direct prompt · hard negative

“GRIN | Built for DTC/ecommerce (Shopify-centric)... don't map well to B2B sales cycles” Kimi K2 · Influencer · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“What to avoid: ... GRIN ... primarily designed for B2C/e-commerce use cases” MiniMax M2.5 · Influencer · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as GRIN, over the 108 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GRIN was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CreatorIQ85 of 10829Not in the top three

Upfluence73 of 1081Not in the top three

Aspire69 of 1083Not in the top three

Modash58 of 10811Not in the top three

Traackr51 of 1088Not in the top three

HypeAuditor30 of 1081Not in the top three

Favikon26 of 10815Compare →

Afluencer26 of 1082Compare →

Heepsy25 of 1082Not in the top three

Shopify Collabs23 of 1084Not 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 GRIN. 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 12 of the 108 answers that named GRIN and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

upfluence.com6

creatoriq.com5

grin.coYour site5

guideflow.com5

influencermarketinghub.com5

modash.io5

toolradar.com4

archive.com3

aspire.io3

kolsquare.com3

Thirty-nine of the forty-four domain citations in answers naming GRIN came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

grin.co/compare4

guideflow.com/blog/influencer-marketing-platforms4

influencermarketinghub.com/top-influencer-marketing-platforms4

toolradar.com/guides/best-influencer-marketing-platforms4

influencermarketinghub.com/influencer-marketing-software3

influencermarketinghub.com/influencer-marketing-software-for-enterprises3

kolsquare.com/en/blog/what-are-the-best-platforms-for-influencer-marketing3

meltwater.com/en/blog/best-influencer-marketing-platforms3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as GRIN

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as GRIN; a claim can dispute any of them.

Grin 8GRIN/Aspire 1

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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 grin.co is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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