Every category where a model named Salesforce Service 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Customer support and helpdesk	Customer	0%	46 of 55	43%	28	criticized challenger	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Chatbots and conversational AI for support	Customer	0%	25 of 114	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Intercom Fin AI Agent at 41%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Contact center quality assurance	Customer	0%	24 of 81	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by EvaluAgent at 28%
Customer success platforms	Customer	0%	49 of 49	100%	5	under 10 labels · led by ChurnZero at 42%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Contact center platforms	Customer	0%	26 of 86	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Five9 at 18%
AI marketing agents	Marketing	0%	64 of 157	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by HubSpot Breeze at 24%
Revenue intelligence and forecasting	Sales	0%	33 of 76	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Clari Copilot at 28%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

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

Best category · Helpdesk · 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 53 → 51 of 51

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 58 → 27 of 55

Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 14% → 12%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

12%from 14% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 2 of 56, unchanged

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
Helpdesk	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 58 → 46 of 55
Support chatbots	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 77 → 25 of 114
Contact center QA	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 24 of 81, unchanged
Customer success	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 67 → 49 of 49
Contact center	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 26 of 86, unchanged
AI marketing agents	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 64 of 157, unchanged
Revenue intel	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 33 of 76, 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 Service Cloud across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	7	1	0	8
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	1	4	7
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	1	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	2	0	4
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	3	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	2	3
Kimi K2	0	1	1	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	2	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	3	1	4	8
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	1	0	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

Direct42 labels10

Paraphrase31 labels8

Comparative52 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained15 labels2

Scale-constrained18 labelsNone

Negative57 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative215 labels in all, every segment counted; 20 of the 24 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.

“choose Salesforce users → Agentforce” Perplexity Sonar · Contact center QA · comparative prompt · first choice

“This is the heavyweight option for enterprise service operations... The trade-off is implementation complexity and admin overhead.” GPT-5.4 mini · Helpdesk · comparative prompt · alternative

“If you are a heavily customized Salesforce shop, keeping your data native inside Sales Cloud avoids security reviews” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Revenue intel · scale prompt · alternative

“Choose Salesforce Service Cloud / Agentforce if your company is already deeply invested in Salesforce CRM” GPT-5.4 mini · Support chatbots · paraphrase 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 Salesforce Service Cloud unless you are a massive enterprise with a dedicated, in-house Salesforce development team.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Helpdesk · negative prompt · hard negative

“avoid tools that are overly complex, expensive for the value... especially Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud” Perplexity Sonar · Helpdesk · negative prompt · hard negative

“its native customer success capabilities are limited... can be expensive and require significant customization” Mistral Small · Customer success · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid these unless you are a massive enterprise with a dedicated IT team.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Helpdesk · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Salesforce Service Cloud, over the 212 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salesforce Service Cloud was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zendesk Support Suite102 of 21237Not among the top eight

Freshdesk79 of 2127Not among the top eight

Intercom68 of 2122Not among the top eight

HubSpot Service Hub40 of 2125Not among the top eight

Zoho Desk35 of 2123Not among the top eight

ServiceNow34 of 2125Not among the top eight

Jira Service Management32 of 2123Not among the top eight

Genesys Cloud CX31 of 2129Not among the top eight

Help Scout30 of 2125Not among the top eight

ServiceNow Customer Service Management24 of 2121Not 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 Service 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 199 of the 212 answers that named Salesforce Service Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.g2.com87

intercom.com74

g2.com69

zendesk.com56

freshworks.com46

helpdesk.com43

hiverhq.com41

cloudtalk.io39

capterra.com38

salesforce.comYour site37

493 of the 530 domain citations in answers naming Salesforce Service Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

intercom.com/learning-center/best-help-desk-software41

happyfox.com/helpdesk/use-cases/customer-service-software-solutions32

helpdesk.com/learn/top-help-desk-softwares25

getmacha.com/blog/best-enterprise-help-desk-software23

freshworks.com/helpdesk/enterprise21

helpdesk.com/blog/best-customer-service-software21

hiverhq.com/blog/enterprise-helpdesk-software21

learn.g2.com/best-contact-center-quality-assurance-software21

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Salesforce Service 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: 1,900 a month (“salesforce service cloud”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 122 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

rank 46 of 55 in helpdesk

Segment leader

31%

Zendesk Support Suite

First choices: 20 across its categories
Named in: 212 answers
Its own site cited: in 199 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 Service Cloud

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

Salesforce 6Agentforce Service 2Agentforce Service (formerly Salesforce Service Cloud) 2Salesforce Service Cloud / Agentforce 2Salesforce Service Cloud / Agentforce Service 2Agentforce 1Agentforce Service (Salesforce Service Cloud) 1Salesforce Agentforce Service 1Salesforce Marketing Cloud + Agentforce 1Salesforce Marketing Cloud / Agentforce 1Salesforce Revenue Cloud + Agentforce 1Salesforce Revenue Intelligence / Agentforce 1Salesforce Service Cloud (Agentforce) 1Salesforce Service Cloud / Einstein for Service 1Salesforce Service Cloud Voice 1Salesforce Service Cloud/Agentforce 1Salesforce Service/Agentforce 1

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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Salesforce is the company behind Salesforce Service Cloud.

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On record

Wikidata

Website: salesforce.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 1999
Employees: about 35,000 (2019)
Ownership: Public, CRM on New York Stock Exchange
Also from Salesforce: Salesforce / Marketing Cloud Next / Agentforce Marketing, Salesforce Agentforce, Salesforce Agentforce / Einstein, Salesforce Agentforce Engagement, Salesforce Agentforce Marketing, Salesforce Agentforce SDR, Salesforce Agentforce Voice, Salesforce Agentforce for Marketing Cloud and 92 more

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: AI-powered Customer Service Agent Console
salesforce.com/service/cloud
For: service teams
salesforce.com/service/cloud
Price stated: Starter Suite $25 USD/User/Month; Pro Suite $100 USD/User/Month; Core $195 USD/User/Month; Advanced $395 USD/User/Month; Max $550 USD/User/Month salesforce.com/service/cloud
Starting price: 25 salesforce.com/service/cloud
Free plan or trial: Try Service Cloud free for 30 days. No credit card, no installations. salesforce.com/service/cloud
Customers named: AAAPenfedADTSouthwest AirlinesGoHenryMarriottThe Container StoreIBM
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, certifications, hosting

What Salesforce Service Cloud's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: salesforce.com/service/cloud, salesforce.com/contents/service-cloud-vip-event, salesforce.com/contents/service-cloud-ibm-bluewolf, salesforce.com/service/cloud/guide, salesforce.com/br/form/service-cloud. A claimed page can correct 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 Salesforce Service Cloud'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 Salesforce Service Cloud, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Salesforce Service Cloud by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Salesforce Service 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 Service 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.