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PROS Smart CPQ

32Judge labels
2First choices
2Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in CPQ for enterprise buyers
Rank 13 of 73 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 10 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business58 of 71
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market13 of 73
0%10 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise6 of 60
4%21 labels
accepted challenger
In cpq · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named PROS Smart CPQ 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
CPQRevenue operations0%13 of 730%10accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for PROS Smart CPQ 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 PROS Smart CPQ across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct5 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labels1
Comparative17 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labels1
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative32 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“Best for pricing optimization: PROS because it is positioned around AI pricing and margin control.” Perplexity Sonar · CPQ · comparative prompt · alternative
“If AI-driven price optimization at scale is the priority, PROS is the standout.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CPQ · comparative prompt · alternative
“strong fit for more complex pricing or revenue optimization needs” GPT-5.4 mini · CPQ · direct prompt · alternative
“AI-powered pricing optimization | PROS Smart CPQ” MiniMax M2.5 · CPQ · comparative prompt · alternative

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as PROS Smart CPQ, over the 32 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PROS Smart CPQ was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Conga CPQ29 of 320Not in the top three
Oracle CPQ28 of 321Not in the top three
SAP CPQ26 of 320Not in the top three
DealHub25 of 322Not in the top three
Salesforce CPQ17 of 328Not in the top three
Salesforce Revenue Cloud16 of 328Not in the top three
Tacton16 of 320Not in the top three
Experlogix10 of 320Not in the top three
PandaDoc10 of 320Not in the top three
Cincom CPQ8 of 320Not 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 PROS Smart CPQ. 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 8 of the 32 answers that named PROS Smart CPQ and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cincom.com6
guideflow.com6
monday.com5
gartner.com4
qobra.co4
salesbricks.com4
conga.com3
cpqconsultant.com3
croclub.com3
dealhub.io3

Forty-one of the forty-one domain citations in answers naming PROS Smart CPQ came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/best-cpq-software6
cincom.com/blog/cpq/best-cpq-tools5
gartner.com/reviews/market/configure-price-quote-applications4
monday.com/blog/crm-and-sales/cpq-software4
qobra.co/blog/cpq-software4
salesbricks.com/blog/best-cpq-software4
conga.com/resources/blog/best-ai-powered-cpq-solutions3
cpqconsultant.com/resources/cpq-tools3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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