Every category where a model named Salesforce PRM 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
Partner relationship management	Partner and channel	2%	9 of 50	35%	37	criticized challenger
Channel partner and local marketing	Partner and channel	0%	99 of 108	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by JourneyBee at 15%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Salesforce PRM 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 PRM 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	2	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	1	2	0	1	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	3	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	0	1	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	2	0	3
Mistral Small	0	3	0	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	4	7
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	3	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	0	1	1	3	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	2	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	1	2

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

Direct25 labels2

Paraphrase32 labels6

Comparative28 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained15 labelsNone

Scale-constrained13 labels1

Negative34 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative147 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 11 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.

“I'd usually recommend starting with Salesforce PRM/Partner Cloud if you already use Salesforce CRM” GPT-5.4 mini · PRM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Choose Salesforce PRM if you are a large enterprise strictly living in the Salesforce world and have the budget for customization.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PRM · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for: Enterprises already using Salesforce CRM ... Weakness: Can be expensive for SMBs, complex pricing structure” Mistral Small · PRM · comparative prompt · alternative

“Salesforce is better only when you have highly complex processes, heavy customization needs, or a dedicated admin team.” Perplexity Sonar · PRM · direct 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 if: You are a startup or mid-market company looking for a portal you can spin up and manage yourself within a few weeks.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PRM · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid: Heavy enterprise suites (Impartner, Salesforce PRM)...they're overkill and overpriced for 500 employees” Kimi K2 · Channel marketing · scale prompt · hard negative

“Highest Cost & Complexity Risk ... this is likely the most expensive and complex PRM option on the market” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PRM · negative prompt · hard negative

“Requires Salesforce + additional licensing; complex for mid-market” Kimi K2 · Channel marketing · direct prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Salesforce PRM, over the 147 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salesforce PRM was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

PartnerStack87 of 1478Not in the top three

Impartner83 of 14723Not in the top three

Channelscaler69 of 1474Not in the top three

ZINFI57 of 14711Not in the top three

Kiflo56 of 14714Not in the top three

Channeltivity56 of 1477Not in the top three

Unifyr54 of 1475Not in the top three

Impartner PRM48 of 14718Not in the top three

PartnerPortal.io43 of 14716Not in the top three

JourneyBee36 of 1474Not 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 PRM. 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 30 of the 147 answers that named Salesforce PRM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

monday.com18

g2.com15

guideflow.com14

zinfi.com13

introw.io12

learn.g2.com12

partnerportal.io12

gartner.com11

partnerplace.io10

xamplify.com9

126 of the 126 domain citations in answers naming Salesforce PRM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

monday.com/blog/crm-and-sales/prm-software16

guideflow.com/blog/best-prm-software13

learn.g2.com/best-prm-software12

zinfi.com/blog/partner-relationship-management-software-202611

partnerplace.io/knowledge-base/what-are-the-best-prm-software-solutions-out-there-202610

gartner.com/reviews/market/partner-relationship-management-applications9

introw.io/blog/best-partner-relationship-management-software9

partnerportal.io/partner-relationship-management-platforms9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Salesforce PRM

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

Salesforce Partner Cloud 13Salesforce Partner Cloud (formerly Salesforce PRM) 4Salesforce 1Salesforce PRM (formerly Prism) 1Salesforce PRM (via Experience Cloud) 1Salesforce PRM / Partner Cloud 1Salesforce PRM/Partner Cloud 1Salesforce Partner Cloud (PRM) 1Salesforce Partner Cloud (formerly Salesforce PRM / Experience Cloud) 1Salesforce Partner Cloud / PRM 1

The company

Salesforce is the company behind Salesforce PRM.

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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