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Melissa Global Address Verification

20Judge labels
5First choices
0Negative labels
8 / 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.
Best standing
6% in Address verification for enterprise buyers
Rank 6 of 108 in the mid-market standing
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 7 labels there were negative.
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 Melissa Global 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 infrastructure4%6 of 1080%7under 10 labels · led by Smarty at 47%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Melissa Global 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 Melissa Global 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 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini10001
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small10001
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K202002
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct6 labels4
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative8 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained3 labels1
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 7 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.

“Experian Address Validation and Melissa Global Address Verification are the top recommendations” Mistral Small · Address verification · direct prompt · first choice
“Melissa Global Address Verification is the safest "best overall" pick” GPT-5.4 mini · Address verification · direct prompt · first choice
“If data governance and international standardization are critical, consider Melissa.” Kimi K2 · Address verification · direct prompt · alternative
“Best for: Enterprise-grade global verification, comprehensive data enrichment” Kimi K2 · 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 Melissa Global Address Verification, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Melissa Global Address Verification was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Smarty16 of 206Not among the top eight
PostGrid Address Verification14 of 202Not among the top eight
Loqate10 of 200Not among the top eight
Lob7 of 200Not among the top eight
Experian Address Validation2 of 200Not among the top eight
Experian Address Verification2 of 200Not among the top eight
Experian Data Quality2 of 200Not among the top eight
GeoPostcodes2 of 200Not among the top eight
Google Address Validation2 of 200Not among the top eight
Informatica DaaS1 of 201Not 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 Melissa Global 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 20 of the 20 answers that named Melissa Global Address Verification and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

melissa.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Melissa Global Address Verification takes 4% of first choices and Smarty takes 47%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “address verification tool”
5
Position for “best address verification tool”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
40 a month (“melissa global address verification”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
3 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 197,334 a month
Searches its site ranks for
14,489 · 727 in the top three
Sites linking to it
4,307
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
31 ads · 31 text · 29 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as Melissa Data Corp, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 8 in the year, 23 before. 28 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
4%
rank 6 of 108 in address verification
Segment leader
47%
Smarty
First choices
5 across its categories
Named in
20 answers
Its own site cited
in 20 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on melissa.com
3,982
subdomains included
Content
1,474
counted in the table below
Documentation
937
Product · Integration
0 · 17
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-11 to 2026-10LatestCategories named
Blog1,021undatedCRM, Email verification
Report or ebook166undated
Glossary or explainer7332026-08-06
Podcast or video6902026-03-10
Case study43undated
News or press2902026-03-27
Webinar or virtual event2522026-07-29Email verification, Enrichment
Conference or event2202025-12-04
Template or tool16undated
Comparison1002025-02-11CDP

Most recent

Events in person

Last twelve months

As the event pages on melissa.com state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page melissa.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name CRM (14); 0 name the category the models place it in. 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 October 5, 2026.

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The company

Melissa is the company behind Melissa Global Address Verification.
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On record

Wikidata
Headquarters
Rancho Santa Margarita, United States
Founded
1985

Fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata

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  • where Melissa Global 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 Melissa Global 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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