Every category where a model named Microsoft Power Automate 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
Workflow automation and iPaaS	GTM data and infrastructure	0%	10 of 76	21%	34	accepted challenger
Proposal software	Revenue operations	0%	68 of 79	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by PandaDoc at 49%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct16 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative29 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained14 labels4

Scale-constrained18 labels3

Negative25 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative106 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 8 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.

“If your company is a pure Microsoft shop... though it can be clunky when connecting to non-Microsoft SaaS tools.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Automation & iPaaS · scale prompt · alternative

“one of the most commonly deployed business workflow automation software platforms in the mid-market” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Automation & iPaaS · direct prompt · alternative

“If Microsoft-heavy: Power Automate as primary, with Workato for non-Microsoft connections” Kimi K2 · Automation & iPaaS · scale prompt · alternative

“Microsoft Power Automate if your company is heavily invested in the Microsoft ecosystem” Perplexity Sonar · Automation & iPaaS · paraphrase 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.

“be cautious outside that ecosystem or when your workflows need broad non-Microsoft integration flexibility” Perplexity Sonar · Automation & iPaaS · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cons: Often requires significant engineering/setup effort to make the UX pleasant for sales reps.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Proposals · scale prompt · soft negative

“Power Automate becomes a nightmare if you try to connect it to non-Microsoft cloud services” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Automation & iPaaS · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cautious if: You're not heavily invested in Microsoft 365, Dynamics, or Azure” MiniMax M2.5 · Automation & iPaaS · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Power Automate, over the 106 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Power Automate was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zapier89 of 10620Not in the top three

Make85 of 10622Not in the top three

Workato75 of 10627Not in the top three

n8n75 of 1065Not in the top three

Boomi35 of 1064Not in the top three

MuleSoft30 of 1062Not in the top three

Tray.ai26 of 1061Not in the top three

ClickUp17 of 1060Not in the top three

UiPath17 of 1060Not in the top three

Celigo14 of 1063Not 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 Microsoft Power Automate. 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 20 of the 106 answers that named Microsoft Power Automate and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com10

atlassian.com8

ayautomate.com7

technologyadvice.com7

thedigitalprojectmanager.com7

ones.com6

zapier.com6

betasystems.com5

reddit.com5

stacksync.com5

Sixty-six of the sixty-six domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Power Automate came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/workflow-automation-platforms10

atlassian.com/agile/project-management/workflow-automation-software8

ayautomate.com/blog/best-workflow-automation-platforms7

technologyadvice.com/blog/project-management/best-workflow-automation-software6

betasystems.com/resources/blog/enterprise-workflow-tools5

stacksync.com/blog/workflow-automation-tools-guide5

teamwork.com/blog/enterprise-workflow-automation-software5

fiverr.com/resources/guides/business/top-six-workflow-automation-software4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Microsoft Power Automate

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

Power Automate 9Microsoft Power Automate + SharePoint 1

The company

Microsoft is the company behind Microsoft Power Automate.

Website: microsoft.com
Headquarters: Vancouver, Canada
Founded: 1975
Employees: about 228,000 (2024)
Ownership: Public, 4338 on Hong Kong Stock Exchange

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

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