Small business▲+16Since September 2026: 49% → 65%, +16 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
65%from 49% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 5 pointsRank 1 of 52, unchanged
7 categories · RankedPandaDoc
559Judge labels
179First choices
88Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
7Categories
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
67% in Proposals for small business buyers
Rank 1 of 56 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
14 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 72 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of PandaDoc →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business1 of 53
67%72 labels
endorsed leader
Mid-market1 of 56
65%72 labels
endorsed leader
Enterprise1 of 67
19%58 labels
criticized challenger
In proposals · 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 PandaDoc 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proposal software | Revenue operations | 65% | 1 of 56 | 11% | 72 | endorsed leader | ▲+18Since September 2026: 49% → 67%, +18 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Contract lifecycle management and e-signature | Revenue operations | 23% | 1 of 63 | 6% | 35 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 25% → 25%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| RFP response software | Sales | 16% | 2 of 82 | 31% | 35 | criticized challenger | |
| CPQ | Revenue operations | 15% | 2 of 66 | 7% | 41 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 13% → 16%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Value selling tools | Sales | 2% | 16 of 116 | 40% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Minoa at 21% | |
| Digital sales rooms | Sales | 0% | 16 of 73 | 11% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by Dock at 29% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Client onboarding platforms | Customer | 0% | 34 of 104 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Rocketlane at 47% |
Movement
Since September 2026, PandaDoc moved past the floor in one of seven categories: Proposals, +18 points to 67%. It held within the floor in the other six.
Best category · Proposals · by segment
Mid-market▲+18Since September 2026: 49% → 67%, +18 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
67%from 49% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 7 pointsRank 1 of 55, unchanged
Enterprise▼−5Since September 2026: 22% → 17%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
17%from 22% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 1 of 62, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proposals | 49% | 67% | ▲+18Since September 2026: 49% → 67%, +18 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 1 of 56, unchanged |
| RFP response | 0% | 17% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 17% now. | New this edition | Rank 2 of 82, unchanged |
| CPQ | 13% | 16% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 13% → 16%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 of 66, unchanged |
| Value selling | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 16 of 116, unchanged |
| CLM | 25% | 25% | =heldSince September 2026: 25% → 25%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 1 of 63, unchanged |
| Sales rooms | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 48 → 16 of 73 |
| Client onboarding | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 34 of 104, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated PandaDoc across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated PandaDoc across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 17 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| Grok 4.20 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 18 |
| Mistral Small | 7 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 7 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 21 |
| Kimi K2 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 22 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 16 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
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
Direct93 labels53
Paraphrase127 labels79
Comparative96 labels37not counted in share
Budget-constrained99 labels40
Scale-constrained52 labels7
Negative92 labels10not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative559 labels in all, every segment counted; 179 of the 226 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.
“All-round revenue/enterprise teams | All-in-one: templates, content library, analytics, payments, CPQ... Choose ... PandaDoc if Salesforce-heavy” Grok 4.20 · Proposals · comparative prompt · first choice
“For a mid-sized B2B with a sales-driven motion and wants proposals + signatures in one place with CRM integration: PandaDoc or Oneflow.” Muse Glimmer 30B · CLM · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“PandaDoc is the best default choice because it is repeatedly positioned as an all-in-one proposal platform for small-to-mid-market teams” Perplexity Sonar · Proposals · direct prompt · first choice
“1. PandaDoc 🏆 ... Differentiator: The broadest platform—if you need one tool for proposals, contracts, and payments, this is it.” Kimi K2 · Proposals · comparative prompt · first choice
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.
“General proposal tools like Proposify and PandaDoc: These excel at sales proposals but fall short for true RFPs.” Grok 4.20 · RFP response · negative prompt · hard negative
“Proposify and PandaDoc are frequently cited as problematic choices for RFP response work” Kimi K2 · RFP response · negative prompt · hard negative
“These are *proposal/presentation* tools, not true RFP management platforms.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · RFP response · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid PandaDoc if mobile experience or complex editing is critical” Kimi K2 · Proposals · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as PandaDoc, over the 559 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PandaDoc was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as PandaDoc, over the 559 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PandaDoc was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 PandaDoc. 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 527 of the 559 answers that named PandaDoc and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pandadoc.comYour site268
g2.com205
guideflow.com200
getaccept.com148
monday.com143
qwilr.com140
responsive.io130
albato.com128
proposify.com114
sifthub.io93
1,301 of the 1,569 domain citations in answers naming PandaDoc came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where PandaDoc stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where PandaDoc stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “proposal software”
1
Position for “best proposal software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 60,500 a month (“pandadoc”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 510 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 425,196 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 60,477 · 4,823 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 17,457
- Paid Google search
- 23 searches its ads show for, about 907 clicks and $42,516 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
65%
rank 1 of 56 in proposals
First choices
179
across its categories
- Named in
- 559 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 527 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on pandadoc.com
1,389
subdomains included
Content
110
counted in the table below
Documentation
406
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 58 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 23 | 1 | 2026-07-29 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 22 | 1 | 2026-08-06 | ||
| Conference or event | 4 | 1 | 2026-08-18 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | 0 | 2026-01-22 |
Most recent
- 2026-08-189714778 in person signing new experience conference or event
- 2026-08-0610116383 sms verification glossary or explainer
- 2026-07-299997637 pandadoc eu vs us comparison
- 2026-06-2910130797 passcode verification glossary or explainer
- 2026-06-1111379752 pandadoc s free esign plan vs free 14 day trial comparison
- 2026-05-1210131495 import and export volume based products via csv glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page pandadoc.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. 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 September 29, 2026.
Names read as PandaDoc
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as PandaDoc; a claim can dispute any of them.
PandaDoc CPQ 12PandaDoc Business 2PandaDoc (Free Plan) 1PandaDoc Free 1
Follow PandaDoc
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
PandaDoc.ShowHide
The company
PandaDoc.
ShowHideOn record
Wikidata- Website
- pandadoc.com
- Headquarters
- South San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2013
Fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · Crunchbase
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- PandaDoc streamlines proposals, quotes & other business document workflows - Trusted by 50K+ Clients - SOC 2, HIPAA & GDPR Compliant!
- For
- growing businesses
- Free plan or trial
- Start a trial pandadoc.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2HIPAAGDPRE-SIGNUETA
- Customers named
- AutodeskNomadTheKeyWizehireGoConsensusChili Piper
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, hosting
What PandaDoc's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: pandadoc.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when PandaDoc's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as PandaDoc, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for PandaDoc by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where PandaDoc 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 PandaDoc, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where PandaDoc is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where PandaDoc is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideProposal software
Every AI model in the set recommends PandaDoc first in Proposal software this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Contract lifecycle management and e-signature
AI models recommend PandaDoc first in Contract lifecycle management and e-signature this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
RFP response software
PandaDoc is among the products AI models recommend first in RFP response software this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
CPQ
PandaDoc is among the products AI models recommend first in CPQ this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.