Every category where a model named QuoteWerks 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
CPQ	Revenue operations	9%	3 of 73	10%	20	accepted challenger
Proposal software	Revenue operations	0%	19 of 79	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by PandaDoc at 49%

Movement

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

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

Direct12 labels3

Paraphrase15 labels1

Comparative18 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained23 labels8

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative81 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 14 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: QuoteWerks ($15-30/user/month) offers the best balance of affordability and functionality.” Mistral Small · CPQ · budget prompt · first choice

“QuoteWerks is affordable and quick to stand up, making it ideal for SMBs, MSPs, and IT resellers” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CPQ · budget prompt · first choice

“the best CPQ choice is usually QuoteWerks or PandaDoc” Perplexity Sonar · CPQ · budget prompt · first choice

“QuoteWerks offers the best "real CPQ" value at low cost” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CPQ · budget 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.

“Skip the lightweight SMB tools (PandaDoc, HubSpot Quotes, QuoteWerks)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CPQ · scale prompt · hard negative

“Less sophisticated configuration” Kimi K2 · CPQ · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as QuoteWerks, over the 81 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and QuoteWerks was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

PandaDoc78 of 8133Compare →

Salesforce CPQ42 of 814Not in the top three

HubSpot Commerce Hub39 of 819Not in the top three

DealHub38 of 818Compare →

Proposify32 of 813Not in the top three

Oracle CPQ29 of 811Not in the top three

SAP CPQ23 of 810Not in the top three

Conga CPQ20 of 810Not in the top three

Kickflip12 of 810Not in the top three

Bitrix2411 of 813Not 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 QuoteWerks. 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 15 of the 81 answers that named QuoteWerks and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com10

pandadoc.com10

gokickflip.com8

g2.com7

softwareadvice.com7

monday.com6

qobra.co6

salesbricks.com6

croclub.com5

aktivsoftware.com4

Sixty-nine of the sixty-nine domain citations in answers naming QuoteWerks came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gokickflip.com/blog/best-cpq-software-for-small-business8

guideflow.com/blog/best-cpq-software8

g2.com/categories/cpq/small-business6

qobra.co/blog/cpq-software6

salesbricks.com/blog/best-cpq-software-for-small-business6

softwareadvice.com/cpq6

monday.com/blog/crm-and-sales/cpq-software5

pandadoc.com/blog/cpq-for-small-business5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as QuoteWerks

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

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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 QuoteWerks'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 QuoteWerks, 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 quotewerks.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.