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1 category · Named, not ranked

Ideal Postcodes

2Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

1 / 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Ideal Postcodes was named 2 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.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market26 of 108

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Ideal Postcodes 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
Address verification tools	GTM data and infrastructure	0%	26 of 108	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Smarty at 47%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Ideal Postcodes 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 Ideal Postcodes 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Best-in-class for UK-specific validation” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Address verification · comparative prompt · alternative

“UK, properly licensed Royal Mail PAF partner” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Address verification · negative 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 Ideal Postcodes, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ideal Postcodes was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Smarty2 of 22Not among the top eight

Lob2 of 20Not among the top eight

AU10TIX1 of 20Not among the top eight

EasyPost Address Verification1 of 20Not among the top eight

Experian Address Verification1 of 20Not among the top eight

Google Address Validation1 of 20Not among the top eight

Google Address Validation API1 of 20Not among the top eight

Loqate1 of 20Not among the top eight

Melissa1 of 20Not among the top eight

PostGrid Address Verification1 of 20Not 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 Ideal Postcodes. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named Ideal Postcodes and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

capterra.com2

g2.com2

guideflow.com2

smarty.com2

worldmetrics.org2

alibaba.com1

capterra.co.uk1

easypost.com1

emaillistvalidation.com1

findarticles.com1

No domain is on file for Ideal Postcodes, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

g2.com/articles/address-verification2

guideflow.com/blog/address-verification-software2

worldmetrics.org/best/address-verification-software2

alibaba.com/product-insights/how-to-check-an-address-simple-methods-to-verify-location-det1

capterra.co.uk/directory/33215/address-verification/software1

capterra.com/address-verification-software1

capterra.com/p/267356/Experian-Address-Verification1

easypost.com/address-verification-api1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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

where Ideal Postcodes 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 Ideal Postcodes, 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.