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
Proposal software	Revenue operations	49%	1 of 79	17%	58	endorsed leader
Contract lifecycle management and e-signature	Revenue operations	25%	1 of 65	6%	32	accepted challenger
CPQ	Revenue operations	13%	2 of 73	7%	43	accepted challenger
Digital sales rooms	Sales	0%	49 of 59	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by Aligned at 40%
Sales enablement and content	Sales	0%	23 of 81	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Dock at 19%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	4	5	1	0	10
GPT-5.4 mini	1	3	1	0	5
Gemini 3.5 Flash	5	6	1	2	14
Perplexity Sonar	5	3	0	2	10
Grok 4.1 Fast	5	5	3	2	15
Mistral Small	5	1	3	1	10
DeepSeek V4 Flash	6	6	1	2	15
Llama 4 Maverick	2	2	4	1	9
Qwen 3.7 Flash	5	5	3	2	15
Kimi K2	6	3	2	4	15
GLM 4.7 FlashX	3	6	2	1	12
MiniMax M2.5	5	3	2	0	10

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

Direct74 labels39

Paraphrase81 labels50

Comparative73 labels33not counted in share

Budget-constrained77 labels33

Scale-constrained39 labels7

Negative61 labels8not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative405 labels in all, every segment counted; 129 of the 170 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.

“PandaDoc is currently the industry standard for mid-market businesses because it strikes the best balance between ease of use, functionality, and price.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Proposals · direct prompt · first choice

“Best for mid-market sales teams needing an all-in-one document workflow, it's the most widely adopted proposal AI-powered sales platform in B2B” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Proposals · direct prompt · first choice

“Pick PandaDoc if you need one platform for proposals *and* contracts, NDAs, quotes, and other documents, with deep CRM integration.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Proposals · comparative prompt · first choice

“PandaDoc edges out as the most recommended for mid-market B2B overall due to its balance of features, affordability, and adoption.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Proposals · direct 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.

“PandaDoc – Strong for proposals/docs but weaker native deal room experience” Kimi K2 · Sales rooms · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“Skip the lightweight SMB tools (PandaDoc, HubSpot Quotes, QuoteWerks)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CPQ · scale prompt · hard negative

“Avoid: Tools like PandaDoc for government contracts, RFPs, or complex enterprise bids ... PandaDoc - Good for general sales proposals” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Proposals · negative prompt · soft negative

“Avoid lightweight proposal/e-sign tools like PandaDoc if your main issue is managing complex, highly negotiated legal agreements.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CLM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as PandaDoc, over the 405 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Proposify174 of 4057Compare →

DealHub131 of 40533Compare →

Qwilr115 of 4052Compare →

Better Proposals92 of 40512Not in the top three

GetAccept92 of 4056Not in the top three

QuoteWerks78 of 4054Compare →

Salesforce CPQ76 of 4056Not in the top three

HubSpot Commerce Hub60 of 40510Not in the top three

Oracle CPQ59 of 4051Not in the top three

Loopio55 of 40511Not 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 PandaDoc. 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 71 of the 405 answers that named PandaDoc and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

pandadoc.comYour site37

guideflow.com29

getaccept.com27

g2.com24

monday.com22

qwilr.com18

proposify.com15

gartner.com14

oneflow.com13

autogenai.com12

174 of the 211 domain citations in answers naming PandaDoc came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/best-cpq-software16

getaccept.com/blog/proposal-software15

gokickflip.com/blog/best-cpq-software-for-small-business12

autogenai.com/blog/best-proposal-management-software11

lindy.ai/blog/proposal-software11

monday.com/blog/crm-and-sales/cpq-software11

gartner.com/reviews/market/configure-price-quote-applications10

sifthub.io/blog/best-proposal-software-tools10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 17PandaDoc / Proposify 1

The company

PandaDoc.

Website: pandadoc.com
Headquarters: South San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013

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 · Crunchbase

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