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Oracle CPQ

123Judge labels
9First choices
48Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
18% in CPQ for enterprise buyers
Rank 72 of 73 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 45% of its 31 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In cpq · 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 Oracle CPQ 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 rateLabelsQuadrant
CPQRevenue operations0%72 of 7345%31criticized challenger
Proposal softwareRevenue operations0%69 of 79100%1under 10 labels · led by PandaDoc at 49%
Territory and quota planningRevenue operations0%73 of 1030%1under 10 labels · led by CaptivateIQ at 30%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Oracle CPQ 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 Oracle CPQ across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini02013
Gemini 3.5 Flash00156
Perplexity Sonar01012
Grok 4.1 Fast01012
Mistral Small01012
DeepSeek V4 Flash01135
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00112
Kimi K202024
GLM 4.7 FlashX01203
MiniMax M2.501102

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
Direct19 labels2
Paraphrase22 labels4
Comparative26 labelsNone
Budget-constrained18 labels3
Scale-constrained13 labelsNone
Negative25 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative123 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 9 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.

“Oracle CPQ excels at complex, engineered-to-order products with its robust rules engine” Kimi K2 · CPQ · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose Oracle CPQ or SAP CPQ if you're already deep in those enterprise ecosystems.” GPT-5.4 mini · CPQ · comparative prompt · alternative
“better if you are already in the Oracle stack and need enterprise-grade process control” GPT-5.4 mini · CPQ · direct prompt · alternative
“Best for: Large enterprises, complex manufacturing, B2B with intricate product catalogs” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CPQ · 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.

“Consistently draws the sharpest criticism from verified reviewers... The ones to be most cautious with are Oracle CPQ (support/release-cycle pain)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CPQ · negative prompt · hard negative
“Oracle CPQ — *Expensive and high-maintenance* ... Avoid if: You're not already an Oracle ERP/CX shop” Kimi K2 · CPQ · negative prompt · hard negative
“Risk level: HIGH - Best suited for enterprises with dedicated technical teams, not typical buyers” Mistral Small · CPQ · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Heavy enterprise engines (like Oracle CPQ) if you don't have dedicated developers” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CPQ · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Oracle CPQ, over the 123 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Oracle CPQ was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
SAP CPQ84 of 1231Not in the top three
Salesforce CPQ83 of 12315Not in the top three
DealHub80 of 12318Not in the top three
Conga CPQ67 of 1231Not in the top three
PandaDoc59 of 12315Not in the top three
Salesforce Revenue Cloud49 of 12323Not in the top three
HubSpot Commerce Hub31 of 12310Not in the top three
Tacton31 of 1231Not in the top three
QuoteWerks29 of 1233Not in the top three
PROS Smart CPQ28 of 1230Not 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 Oracle CPQ. 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 23 of the 123 answers that named Oracle CPQ and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com12
monday.com11
cincom.com10
qobra.co10
gartner.com8
salesbricks.com8
salesforce.com7
g2.com6
pandadoc.com6
conga.com5

Eighty-three of the eighty-three domain citations in answers naming Oracle CPQ came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Oracle CPQ

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Oracle CPQ; a claim can dispute any of them.
Oracle 3Oracle / SAP CPQ 2

The company

Oracle Corporation is the company behind Oracle CPQ.
Website
oracle.com
Headquarters
Bengaluru, India
Founded
1977
Employees
about 162,000 (2025)
Ownership
Public, ORCL on Nasdaq

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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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at oracle.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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