Every category where a model named Salesforce 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
CPQ	Revenue operations	0%	73 of 73	51%	35	criticized challenger
Proposal software	Revenue operations	0%	71 of 79	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by PandaDoc at 49%
Loyalty, advocacy and referrals	Marketing	0%	123 of 124	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Smile.io at 24%
Partner relationship management	Partner and channel	0%	48 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 Salesforce 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 Salesforce CPQ 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	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	2	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	4	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	2	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1	1	3
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	1	2	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	6	7
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	1	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	1	4

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

Direct17 labels5

Paraphrase25 labels9

Comparative23 labels8not counted in share

Budget-constrained19 labels3

Scale-constrained21 labels1

Negative33 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative138 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 26 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.

“The most ubiquitous CPQ solution in the world, designed specifically for organizations heavily invested in the Salesforce ecosystem.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CPQ · comparative prompt · first choice

“The most widely deployed CPQ (41% of enterprises surveyed)... If you're on Salesforce CRM → Salesforce CPQ/Revenue Cloud.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CPQ · comparative prompt · first choice

“Best for: Enterprises already on Salesforce CRM; complex subscriptions, guided selling, full quote-to-cash” Grok 4.1 Fast · CPQ · comparative prompt · first choice

“### 1. Salesforce CPQ (now part of Revenue Cloud) Best for: Salesforce-native enterprises” Mistral Small · CPQ · comparative 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.

“Avoid/Caution if: You do not have a dedicated, senior CPQ developer/administrator... often cited as one of the most difficult to manage technically.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CPQ · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid if: You're not already deep in the Salesforce ecosystem, have high-volume quoting needs, or lack dedicated Salesforce admin resources.” Kimi K2 · CPQ · negative prompt · hard negative

“Legacy Salesforce CPQ — Unless you're already committed to Salesforce Revenue Cloud migration, it's risky to start new implementations here.” MiniMax M2.5 · CPQ · negative prompt · hard negative

“avoid rigid, on-premise solutions ... or heavily customized Salesforce CPQ setups) unless you have a dedicated team of developers” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Loyalty · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Salesforce CPQ, over the 138 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salesforce CPQ was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Oracle CPQ83 of 1382Not in the top three

PandaDoc76 of 13828Not in the top three

DealHub76 of 13818Not in the top three

SAP CPQ63 of 1381Not in the top three

Conga CPQ58 of 1381Not in the top three

HubSpot Commerce Hub44 of 13813Not in the top three

QuoteWerks42 of 1385Not in the top three

Experlogix26 of 1380Not in the top three

Proposify21 of 1381Not in the top three

Salesforce Revenue Cloud21 of 1381Not 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 Salesforce 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 28 of the 138 answers that named Salesforce CPQ and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com15

monday.com13

salesforce.com11

cincom.com10

conga.com7

gartner.com7

mobileforce.ai7

pandadoc.com7

qobra.co7

dealhub.io6

Ninety of the ninety domain citations in answers naming Salesforce CPQ came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/best-cpq-software13

monday.com/blog/crm-and-sales/cpq-software10

cincom.com/blog/cpq/best-cpq-tools9

salesforce.com/sales/cpq8

gartner.com/reviews/market/configure-price-quote-applications7

monday.com/blog/crm-and-sales/cpq7

qobra.co/blog/cpq-software7

zoovu.com/blog/best-cpq-software6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Salesforce CPQ

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

Salesforce CPQ / Revenue Cloud 5Salesforce CPQ (Revenue Cloud) 4Salesforce 1Salesforce CPQ (CPQ Cloud) 1Salesforce CPQ (Legacy) 1Salesforce CPQ (Steelbrick) 1Salesforce CPQ (now part of Agentforce Revenue Management/Revenue Cloud) 1

The company

Salesforce is the company behind Salesforce CPQ.

Website: salesforce.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 1999
Employees: about 35,000 (2019)
Ownership: Public, CRM on New York Stock Exchange

From Wikidata, 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

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