Every category where a model named PartnerStack 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
Affiliate and partner management	Partner and channel	42%	1 of 87	7%	45	endorsed leader
Referral and partner programs	Partner and channel	19%	1 of 107	10%	21	accepted challenger
Channel partner and local marketing	Partner and channel	6%	6 of 108	18%	11	accepted challenger
Partner relationship management	Partner and channel	4%	5 of 50	22%	45	accepted challenger
Loyalty, advocacy and referrals	Marketing	0%	25 of 124	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Smile.io at 24%
Influencer platforms	Marketing	0%	35 of 79	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Favikon at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for PartnerStack 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 PartnerStack 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	3	3	2	0	8
GPT-5.4 mini	4	1	0	2	7
Gemini 3.5 Flash	5	7	2	4	18
Perplexity Sonar	2	4	1	0	7
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	3	2	3	9
Mistral Small	4	3	3	2	12
DeepSeek V4 Flash	5	7	2	3	17
Llama 4 Maverick	2	1	4	0	7
Qwen 3.7 Flash	4	3	0	0	7
Kimi K2	4	7	3	2	16
GLM 4.7 FlashX	5	3	3	1	12
MiniMax M2.5	2	5	3	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

Direct92 labels37

Paraphrase116 labels43

Comparative71 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained23 labels2

Scale-constrained40 labels7

Negative42 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative384 labels in all, every segment counted; 89 of the 98 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.

“For most mid-market B2B companies, PartnerStack offers the best combination of B2B-specific features, partner marketplace access, and scalability.” Mistral Small · Affiliate · direct prompt · first choice

“PartnerStack if you're a B2B software company and want a partner ecosystem platform that's strong on scaling recruitment, management, and payouts” GPT-5.4 mini · Channel marketing · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Particularly dominant if your company is B2B / SaaS. Excellent for managing affiliates, referral partners, and reseller channels under one roof” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Affiliate · scale prompt · first choice

“The Gold Standard: PartnerStack ... widely regarded as the leading platform built specifically for B2B SaaS and tech companies” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Affiliate · 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.

“Trustpilot rating of 2.0/5 driven by payout delays, withheld commissions, and sudden account closures” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PRM · negative prompt · hard negative

“Trustpilot rating of only 2.0/5 ... Sudden account bans without clear explanations” Mistral Small · PRM · negative prompt · hard negative

“It is not built for traditional reseller, distributor, or co-selling channels” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PRM · negative prompt · hard negative

“Enterprise platforms (PartnerStack, Impact) - Start at $1,000+/month” Mistral Small · Affiliate · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as PartnerStack, over the 384 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PartnerStack was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

impact.com169 of 38432Compare →

Salesforce PRM87 of 3845Not in the top three

Kiflo84 of 38420Not in the top three

Impartner82 of 38417Not in the top three

Channeltivity66 of 38412Not in the top three

Rewardful65 of 3849Not in the top three

Channelscaler63 of 3841Not in the top three

PartnerPortal.io59 of 38429Not in the top three

Tapfiliate56 of 38414Compare →

Everflow50 of 3840Not 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 PartnerStack. 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 59 of the 384 answers that named PartnerStack and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.g2.com22

g2.com20

guideflow.com18

partnerstack.comYour site18

introw.io17

monday.com15

gartner.com14

modash.io14

linkjolt.io13

referralcandy.com11

144 of the 162 domain citations in answers naming PartnerStack came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

learn.g2.com/best-prm-software14

monday.com/blog/crm-and-sales/prm-software14

guideflow.com/blog/best-prm-software11

gartner.com/reviews/market/partner-relationship-management-applications10

referralcandy.com/blog/best-affiliate-program-software-in-2026-ranked-by-features-pricing-10

partnerplace.io/knowledge-base/what-are-the-best-prm-software-solutions-out-there-20269

zinfi.com/blog/partner-relationship-management-software-20269

modash.io/blog/affiliate-management-software-tools8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as PartnerStack

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

PartnerStack / Impact 1

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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 PartnerStack'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 PartnerStack, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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 partnerstack.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.