| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer success platforms | Customer | 3% | 7 of 49 | 18% | 40 | accepted challenger | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Client onboarding platforms | Customer | 0% | 101 of 104 | 54% | 13 | criticized challenger |
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer success | 0% | 4% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 12 → 7 of 49 |
| Client onboarding | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 101 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
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“best all-around customer success platform is usually ChurnZero or Planhat” GPT-5.4 mini · Customer success · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd shortlist Vitally, ChurnZero, and Planhat first” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Customer success · scale prompt · first choice
“Planhat if you want CS, renewals, customer projects, and possibly sales workflows brought together” GPT-6 Luna · Customer success · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“| Planhat | European companies or those wanting European data residency | Strong workflow depth |” Kimi K2 · Customer success · scale prompt · alternative
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.
“What to Skip for Mid-Market - Gainsight and Planhat — powerful, but built for enterprise” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Customer success · direct prompt · hard negative
“Enterprise giants like Gainsight, ChurnZero, or Planhat are highly capable but typically start at $15,000 to $50,000+ per year” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Customer success · budget prompt · soft negative
“Some platforms use account-based pricing, which can become very expensive if churned accounts still count toward your total.” Mistral Small · Customer success · negative prompt · soft negative
“a steep learning curve tied to complex setup and inconsistent documentation is a common complaint” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Client onboarding · negative prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 161 of the 164 answers that named Planhat and are not a share of its labels.
435 of the 476 domain citations in answers naming Planhat came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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.
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference or event | 78 | 78 | 2026-09-29 | Customer success | |
| Glossary or explainer | 31 | 17 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| News or press | 11 | 10 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Case study | 9 | 7 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Comparison | 7 | 5 | 2026-09-29 | CRM | |
| Blog | 2 | 2 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | 1 | 2026-09-29 |
As the event pages on planhat.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
Every page planhat.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.
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.
What Planhat's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: planhat.com, planhat.com/pricing, trust.planhat.com, planhat.com/capabilities, planhat.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 Planhat'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 Planhat, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Planhat by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows: