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Salesforce Commerce Cloud

149Judge labels
9First choices
40Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
11% in Ecommerce marketing for enterprise buyers
Rank 11 of 71 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 19% of its 21 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Salesforce Commerce Cloud →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In ecommerce · 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 Salesforce Commerce Cloud 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 rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Ecommerce platformsRevenue operations0%11 of 7119%21accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Ecommerce marketingMarketing0%17 of 11512%8under 10 labels · led by HubSpot Marketing Hub at 38%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Ecommerce search and merchandisingMarketing0%54 of 7450%4under 10 labels · led by Algolia at 25%
Order management systemsRevenue operations0%94 of 1310%1under 10 labels · led by Zoho Inventory at 25%

Movement

Since September 2026, Salesforce Commerce Cloud held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · Ecommerce · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 46 → 52 of 53
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 20 → 9 of 60
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 3% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 3% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 6 → 5 of 72

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
Ecommerce0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 20 → 11 of 71
Ecommerce marketing0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 135 → 17 of 115
Ecommerce search0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 54 of 74, unchanged
Order management0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 94 of 131, 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

By model

How each model treated Salesforce Commerce Cloud across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini02002
Gemini 3.5 Flash01023
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.2001012
Mistral Small01405
DeepSeek V4 Flash01113
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash01337
Kimi K201102
GLM 4.7 FlashX02103
MiniMax M2.501203
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B01001

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
Direct41 labels8
Paraphrase10 labels1
Comparative34 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained19 labelsNone
Scale-constrained16 labelsNone
Negative29 labels4not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative149 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 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.

“BigCommerce or Salesforce Commerce Cloud, depending on whether you want faster deployment or deeper CRM integration” GPT-5.4 mini · Ecommerce marketing · direct prompt · alternative
“Go with Adobe Commerce or Salesforce if you are an enterprise corporation with complex global logistics” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Ecommerce · comparative prompt · alternative
“### Alternative: The "Heavy Lifter" Combo Salesforce Commerce Cloud + Salesforce Marketing Cloud” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Ecommerce marketing · direct prompt · alternative
“Salesforce Commerce Cloud: Best if already invested in Salesforce ecosystem” MiniMax M2.5 · Ecommerce marketing · scale 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.

“six-figure minimum commitments ... you should avoid these platforms until you have outgrown everything else” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Ecommerce · negative prompt · hard negative
“without the astronomical total cost of ownership (TCO) and heavy IT development overhead required by massive enterprise suites like SAP or Salesforce” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Ecommerce · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“It's less flexible than pure-play search providers but offers unparalleled context if you're already using Salesforce extensively.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Ecommerce search · comparative prompt · soft negative
“Implementation takes months (or years) and costs significantly more. Support for self-service is lower than smaller competitors.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Ecommerce search · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Salesforce Commerce Cloud, over the 149 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salesforce Commerce Cloud was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Adobe Commerce109 of 1494Not among the top eight
Shopify107 of 14940Not among the top eight
BigCommerce B2B Edition81 of 14914Not among the top eight
SAP Commerce Cloud56 of 1497Not among the top eight
commercetools43 of 1493Not among the top eight
WooCommerce36 of 1493Not among the top eight
BigCommerce32 of 1494Not among the top eight
Squarespace Commerce21 of 1490Not among the top eight
Elastic Path Composable Commerce16 of 1490Not among the top eight
HubSpot Marketing Hub15 of 1496Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Salesforce Commerce Cloud. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 132 of the 149 answers that named Salesforce Commerce Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

shopify.com77
elogic.co56
bigcommerce.com53
netsolutions.com48
guideflow.com37
learn.g2.com34
elasticpath.com32
forbes.com30
g2.com25
digitalapplied.com22

414 of the 414 domain citations in answers naming Salesforce Commerce Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Salesforce Commerce Cloud stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
1,600 a month (“salesforce commerce cloud”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
85 a month
Its own site
It sits on Salesforce's site (salesforce.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 11 of 71 in ecommerce
Segment leader
47%
BigCommerce B2B Edition
First choices
9 across its categories
Named in
149 answers
Its own site cited
in 132 of the answers that named it

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.

Names read as Salesforce Commerce Cloud

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Salesforce Commerce Cloud; a claim can dispute any of them.
Salesforce 3Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC) 2Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Search & Discovery) 1Salesforce Commerce Cloud / Salesforce B2B Commerce 1

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The company

Salesforce is the company behind Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
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On record

Wikidata
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Founded
1999
Employees
about 35,000 (2019)
Ownership
Public, CRM on New York Stock Exchange

Fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · LinkedIn · Crunchbase

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
an end-to-end platform for B2C and B2B digital commerce
Certifications
compliance certifications for even the most stringent markets like healthcare and financial servicesB2C Commerce Developer
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers

What Salesforce Commerce Cloud's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: salesforce.com/retail/cloud, salesforce.com/commerce/cloud, salesforce.com/platform/salesforce-developer, salesforce.com/compare/salesforce-commerce-cloud-vs-shopify, salesforce.com/retail/cloud/guide. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • where Salesforce Commerce Cloud is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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