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Lob Address Verification

7Judge labels
1First choices
0Negative labels
6 / 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
3 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Lob Address Verification was named 3 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.
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 Lob Address Verification 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
Address verification toolsGTM data and infrastructure2%7 of 1080%3under 10 labels · led by Smarty at 47%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Lob Address Verification 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 Lob Address Verification 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 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B10001

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
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative2 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained4 labels1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“Lob Address Verification – best free tier for developers” Muse Glimmer 30B · Address verification · budget prompt · first choice
“Lob (300 free verifications + low per-lookup)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Address verification · budget prompt · alternative
“popular for US/e-commerce, 7.7/10” Grok 4.1 Fast · Address verification · comparative 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 Lob Address Verification, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Lob Address Verification was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Smarty6 of 74Not among the top eight
PostGrid Address Verification3 of 70Not among the top eight
AddressZen2 of 70Not among the top eight
Google Address Validation API2 of 70Not among the top eight
Loqate2 of 70Not among the top eight
Melissa2 of 70Not among the top eight
Google Maps Address Validation1 of 71Not among the top eight
PostGrid Essential1 of 71Not among the top eight
USPS Addresses 3.0 AP1 of 71Not among the top eight
Byteplant Address Validator1 of 70Not 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 Lob Address Verification. 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 7 of the 7 answers that named Lob Address Verification and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

smarty.com7
g2.com5
itechguides.com5
sourceforge.net5
apio.sh4
guideflow.com4
help.lob.com4
getapp.com3
postgrid.com3
thectoclub.com3

No domain is on file for Lob Address Verification, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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

  • where Lob Address Verification 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 Lob Address Verification, 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.
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