Every category where a model named Pipedrive 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
Sales enablement and content	Sales	4%	9 of 81	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Dock at 19%
Revenue intelligence and forecasting	Sales	4%	6 of 75	0%	11	accepted challenger
CRM	Revenue operations	2%	7 of 71	9%	46	accepted challenger
Lead routing and management	Sales	0%	22 of 104	36%	14	criticized challenger
Partner relationship management	Partner and channel	0%	21 of 50	29%	7	under 10 labels · led by Channeltivity at 24%
Territory and quota planning	Revenue operations	0%	28 of 103	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by CaptivateIQ at 30%
Attribution and marketing mix modeling	Marketing	0%	87 of 124	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Dreamdata at 29%
Contract lifecycle management and e-signature	Revenue operations	0%	49 of 65	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by PandaDoc at 25%
CPQ	Revenue operations	0%	52 of 73	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by DealHub at 62%
CRM data quality and deduplication	Revenue operations	0%	80 of 104	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Insycle at 34%
Marketing automation and campaign management	Marketing	0%	31 of 53	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by HubSpot Marketing Hub at 55%
Sales commissions and incentive compensation	Revenue operations	0%	17 of 51	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Everstage at 25%
Sales engagement platforms	Sales	0%	36 of 55	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Salesloft at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Pipedrive 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 Pipedrive 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	0	2	4	0	6
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	4	1	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	5	1	1	7
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	5	2	3	11
Mistral Small	1	6	2	1	10
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	5	0	1	6
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	4	0	5
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	7	1	1	10
Kimi K2	1	5	3	2	11
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	9	2	0	12
MiniMax M2.5	0	3	4	2	9

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

Direct47 labels9

Paraphrase72 labels20

Comparative45 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained71 labels6

Scale-constrained21 labels3

Negative46 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative302 labels in all, every segment counted; 38 of the 47 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 small businesses, simpler tools like Pipedrive, Close.com, or Less Annoying CRM tend to result in higher satisfaction” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CRM · negative prompt · first choice

“Pipedrive at $14/user offers the best balance of features, usability, and price for sales-specific workflows.” Kimi K2 · Sales enablement · budget prompt · first choice

“Start with Pipedrive ($14/seat/month) or Freshsales ($15/seat/month) for basic pipeline management” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Sales enablement · budget prompt · first choice

“Most mid-market B2B teams start with HubSpot or Pipedrive for balance of features and speed.” Grok 4.1 Fast · CRM · 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.

“Stay Native (HubSpot/Pipedrive) only if your lead volume is moderate and your routing logic is simple” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Lead routing · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“Routing is basic (round-robin) — fine for SMBs, but hits a ceiling for complex territory needs” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Lead routing · comparative prompt · soft negative

“Avoid if you have marketing + sales + customer success teams... Pipedrive (7/100)” MiniMax M2.5 · CRM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Lead-centric tools such as Pipedrive-like systems when your process is ABM-focused” Perplexity Sonar · Lead routing · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Pipedrive, over the 302 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pipedrive was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zoho CRM166 of 30214Not in the top three

HubSpot CRM121 of 30248Not in the top three

Freshsales107 of 3026Not in the top three

HubSpot Sales Hub106 of 30241Not in the top three

Salesforce Sales Cloud87 of 30215Not in the top three

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales44 of 3022Not in the top three

Salesflare40 of 3028Not in the top three

LeanData35 of 3026Not in the top three

Chili Piper30 of 3021Not in the top three

Close26 of 3020Not 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 Pipedrive. 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 41 of the 302 answers that named Pipedrive and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

croclub.com13

salesforce.com12

leadangel.com10

pipeline.zoominfo.com10

blog.salesflare.com9

g2.com9

default.com8

pipedrive.comYour site8

bigcontacts.com7

fitsmallbusiness.com7

Eighty-five of the ninety-three domain citations in answers naming Pipedrive came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

improvado.io/blog/the-best-lead-management-software6

blog.salesflare.com/best-small-business-crm5

croclub.com/tools/best-crm-for-small-business5

default.com/post/top-b2b-lead-follow-up-automation-software5

konabayev.com/blog/crm-software-for-small-business5

pcmag.com/picks/the-best-small-business-crm-software5

techradar.com/best/best-crm-for-small-business5

avoma.com/blog/best-lead-routing-software4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Pipedrive

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

Pipedrive (as basic PRM) 1Pipedrive Lite 1Pipedrive Premium/Advanced 1Pipedrive Professional 1

The company

Pipedrive.

Website: pipedrive.com
Headquarters: New York City
Founded: 2010

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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