| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marketing | 44% | 1 of 68 | 9% | 56 | endorsed leader | ▼−13Since September 2026: 54% → 41%, −13 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | |
| Direct mail and gifting platforms | Marketing | 9% | 5 of 90 | 0% | 18 | accepted challenger | |
| Address verification tools | GTM data and infrastructure | 0% | 91 of 108 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Smarty at 47% |
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct mail | 54% | 41% | ▼−13Since September 2026: 54% → 41%, −13 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 1 of 68, unchanged |
| Direct mail & gifting | 0% | 8% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 8% now. | New this edition | Rank 5 of 90, unchanged |
| Address verification | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 91 of 108, 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 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Grok 4.20 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Best for CRM-driven campaign speed: Postalytics is often cited as default starting point for marketing teams with free tier and strong tracking.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Direct mail · scale prompt · first choice
“I'd start with Postalytics. It's a good default when marketing wants to build and automate campaigns without relying on engineering” GPT-6 Luna · Direct mail · direct prompt · first choice
“Best Overall for Marketing Teams: Postalytics ... widely considered the best balance of affordability and functionality” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct mail · budget prompt · first choice
“Postalytics is widely considered the "standard" entry point for direct mail automation because it focuses on ease of use” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct mail · comparative prompt · first choice
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.
“often chosen for narrower use cases, such as marketing automation or location/data matching, rather than general-purpose address verification” Perplexity Sonar · Address verification · comparative prompt · soft negative
“Postalytics ($199+/mo) ... often require subscriptions, making them pricier for sporadic use.” Grok 4.20 · Direct mail · budget prompt · soft negative
“it is recommended to be cautious about, especially for complex or multi-step mail journeys” Mistral Small · Direct mail · negative prompt · soft negative
“The G2 profile I found had only 13 reviews. That's a *limited evidence base*” GPT-6 Luna · Direct mail · 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 190 of the 192 answers that named Postalytics and are not a share of its labels.
710 of the 832 domain citations in answers naming Postalytics 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 422 | 9 | 2026-09-23 | CRM, Ecommerce marketing | |
| Template or tool | 75 | 1 | 2026-07-09 | Direct mail | |
| Podcast or video | 51 | 0 | 2026-03-06 | Direct mail | |
| Case study | 25 | 0 | 2026-05-07 | ||
| Comparison | 19 | 0 | 2025-10-30 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 14 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 6 | 0 | 2026-04-13 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | 0 | 2025-12-11 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Every page postalytics.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 Postalytics's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: postalytics.com, postalytics.com/plans/pro, trust.postalytics.com, postalytics.com/products, postalytics.com/case-studies. 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 Postalytics'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 Postalytics, 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 Postalytics by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
AI models recommend Postalytics first in Print 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.
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.