Every category where a model named Refersion 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
Affiliate and partner management	Partner and channel	2%	12 of 87	29%	17	criticized challenger
Referral and partner programs	Partner and channel	0%	88 of 107	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by PartnerStack at 19%
Partner relationship management	Partner and channel	0%	47 of 50	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Channeltivity at 24%

Movement

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

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

Direct8 labelsNone

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative19 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labels1

Scale-constrained10 labels1

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative61 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 5 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.

“Offers a free plan and is considered one of the best affiliate marketing platforms for beginners.” Llama 4 Maverick · Affiliate · budget prompt · first choice

“Tapfiliate, Refersion, and Post Affiliate Pro — especially for their fraud prevention” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Referrals · negative prompt · alternative

“Tier 1 Solution (like Impact, PartnerStack, Refersion, or Post Affiliate Pro)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Affiliate · scale prompt · alternative

“Tapfiliate, Refersion, and FirstPromoter make it simple to get started” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Affiliate · budget 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.

“Avoid tools with these reported issues: Refersion - Users report "glitchy and underdeveloped" software” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Referrals · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid pricier ones like Refersion ($99+/month) unless scaling.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Affiliate · budget prompt · hard negative

“or e-comm-focused like Refersion/LeadDyno” Grok 4.1 Fast · Affiliate · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“look cheap upfront but charge a 2% to 3% transaction fee on all affiliate-referred sales” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Affiliate · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Refersion, over the 61 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Refersion was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

PartnerStack39 of 6110Not in the top three

impact.com36 of 615Not in the top three

Tapfiliate35 of 6110Not in the top three

Rewardful28 of 614Not in the top three

FirstPromoter24 of 612Not in the top three

ShareASale21 of 613Not in the top three

Post Affiliate Pro19 of 612Not in the top three

LeadDyno16 of 612Not in the top three

Awin14 of 611Not in the top three

CJ Affiliate14 of 611Not 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 Refersion. 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 6 of the 61 answers that named Refersion and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

influencermarketinghub.com3

linkjolt.io3

mailmodo.com3

modash.io3

tapfiliate.com3

learn.g2.com2

optimisemedia.com2

postaffiliatepro.com2

referralcandy.com2

shopify.com2

Twenty-five of the twenty-five domain citations in answers naming Refersion came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

influencermarketinghub.com/affiliate-marketing-software-platforms3

linkjolt.io/blog/best-affiliate-marketing-platforms3

mailmodo.com/guides/affiliate-marketing-platforms3

modash.io/blog/affiliate-marketing-platforms3

tapfiliate.com/blog/affiliate-marketing-platforms-for-growing-brands-cck3

influencermarketinghub.com/affiliate-marketing-websites2

learn.g2.com/best-affiliate-marketing-software2

optimisemedia.com/blog/best-affiliate-marketing-platforms2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Refersion

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

Refersion / Tapfiliate 1Tapfiliate / Refersion 1

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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 Refersion'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 Refersion, 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 refersion.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.