Every category where a model named Less Annoying CRM 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
CRM	Revenue operations	2%	9 of 71	0%	11	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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

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

Comparative11 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labels2

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative9 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative32 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 5 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.

“simpler tools like Pipedrive, Close.com, or Less Annoying CRM tend to result in higher satisfaction” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CRM · negative prompt · first choice

“Specifically designed for small teams on a budget, simple and affordable” MiniMax M2.5 · CRM · budget prompt · first choice

“Low-complaint alternatives: Less Annoying CRM (1 negative review)” Grok 4.1 Fast · CRM · negative prompt · first choice

“If you hate complicated tech and want simple pricing: Go with Less Annoying CRM” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CRM · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Less Annoying CRM, over the 32 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Less Annoying CRM was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

HubSpot CRM30 of 329Not in the top three

Zoho CRM26 of 324Not in the top three

Pipedrive24 of 323Not in the top three

Freshsales21 of 320Not in the top three

Salesforce Sales Cloud19 of 321Not in the top three

EngageBay11 of 320Not in the top three

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales11 of 320Not in the top three

Bigin by Zoho10 of 321Not in the top three

Salesflare6 of 321Not in the top three

Capsule CRM6 of 320Not 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 Less Annoying CRM. 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 1 of the 32 answers that named Less Annoying CRM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.salesflare.com1

cloudtalk.io1

crm.org1

expertmarket.com1

fitsmallbusiness.com1

forbes.com1

konabayev.com1

monday.com1

nethunt.com1

nimble.com1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Less Annoying CRM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

blog.salesflare.com/best-small-business-crm1

cloudtalk.io/blog/best-crm-software-for-small-businesses1

crm.org/crmland/best-crm-for-small-business1

expertmarket.com/crm/best-cheap-crm-systems1

expertmarket.com/crm/best-crm-systems-for-small-businesses1

fitsmallbusiness.com/best-crm-for-small-business1

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-crm-small-business1

konabayev.com/blog/crm-software-for-small-business1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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