Every category where a model named Salesforce Spiff 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
Territory and quota planning	Revenue operations	2%	14 of 103	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by CaptivateIQ at 30%
Sales commissions and incentive compensation	Revenue operations	0%	10 of 51	23%	47	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Salesforce Spiff 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 Spiff 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	2	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	4	0	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	5	1	1	7
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	2	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	4	0	1	5
Mistral Small	0	2	3	0	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	1	1	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	2	4
Kimi K2	0	2	3	1	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	2	5
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

Direct23 labelsNone

Paraphrase27 labels2

Comparative28 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained18 labels2

Scale-constrained17 labels1

Negative21 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative134 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 7 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.

“go with Salesforce Spiff — it has the fastest implementation, native integration, and best ROI for your profile” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Territory planning · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“1. Salesforce Spiff ($75/user/month) - Best for: Salesforce-native teams” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Commissions · comparative prompt · first choice

“An excellent choice if your company runs exclusively on Salesforce and wants a native experience within the CRM interface.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Commissions · scale prompt · alternative

“if you're already deeply invested in Salesforce and want a more CRM-native, faster-to-deploy option” GPT-5.4 mini · Commissions · 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.

“Salesforce used as a commission engine is specifically called out as a poor fit for complex commission calculation” Perplexity Sonar · Commissions · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid enterprise tools (e.g., CaptivateIQ, Spiff at $75/user/mo)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Commissions · budget prompt · hard negative

“Only consider it if your entire stack is Salesforce-native and you're comfortable with post-acquisition uncertainty and add-on costs.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Commissions · negative prompt · soft negative

“requiring heavy setup, professional services, complex integrations, or being difficult to maintain” Perplexity Sonar · Commissions · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Salesforce Spiff, over the 132 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salesforce Spiff was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CaptivateIQ112 of 13224Not in the top three

QuotaPath87 of 13231Not in the top three

Everstage76 of 13217Not in the top three

Xactly63 of 1329Not in the top three

Qobra62 of 13212Not in the top three

Performio57 of 1324Not in the top three

Varicent53 of 1327Not in the top three

Visdum34 of 1322Not in the top three

Xactly Incent32 of 1327Not in the top three

Commissionly26 of 1327Not 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 Spiff. 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 24 of the 132 answers that named Salesforce Spiff and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

captivateiq.com14

qobra.co13

everstage.com12

quotapath.com12

guideflow.com10

forma.ai9

getcentify.com9

learn.g2.com8

visdum.com8

salesforce.comYour site7

Ninety-five of the 102 domain citations in answers naming Salesforce Spiff came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

everstage.com/10-best-sales-commission-software10

getcentify.com/best-sales-commission-software8

learn.g2.com/best-sales-compensation-software8

qobra.co/blog/top-sales-commission-tools8

captivateiq.com/blog/best-sales-compensation-software7

forma.ai/resources/article/commissions-software7

forma.ai/resources/article/incentive-compensation-management-software6

guideflow.com/blog/sales-commission-software6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Salesforce Spiff

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

Spiff 9Salesforce 1Salesforce SPIFF (formerly Spiff) 1

The company

Salesforce is the company behind Salesforce Spiff.

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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