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SAP Ariba

17Judge labels

0First choices

10Negative labels

10 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. SAP Ariba was named 7 times in CLM and 1 other category, where PandaDoc led with 25%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business57 of 63

under the label threshold

Mid-market64 of 65

under the label threshold

Enterprise17 of 69

under the label threshold

In clm · 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 SAP Ariba 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
Contract lifecycle management and e-signature	Revenue operations	0%	64 of 65	60%	5	under 10 labels · led by PandaDoc at 25%
Proposal software	Revenue operations	0%	78 of 79	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by PandaDoc at 49%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SAP Ariba 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 SAP Ariba across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	2	2
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative11 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“For Procurement: Sirion, Coupa, SAP Ariba” Mistral Small · CLM · negative 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.

“SAP Ariba — Vendor Nightmare Why avoid:” Kimi K2 · Proposals · negative prompt · hard negative

“The contract authoring and negotiation modules in these heavy ERP tools are notoriously clunky and rigid.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CLM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Enterprise-heavy tools (e.g., Deltek Vantagepoint, SAP Ariba): Steep learning curves ... high costs” Grok 4.1 Fast · Proposals · negative prompt · soft negative

“When to avoid enterprise-heavy tools (e.g., Icertis, SAP Ariba): If you're mid-market/SMB” Grok 4.1 Fast · CLM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SAP Ariba, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SAP Ariba was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ironclad13 of 173Not in the top three

Agiloft10 of 171Not in the top three

Icertis10 of 171Not in the top three

PandaDoc10 of 171Not in the top three

Conga CLM10 of 170Not in the top three

DocuSign CLM10 of 170Not in the top three

LinkSquares9 of 171Not in the top three

Juro7 of 173Not in the top three

Coupa7 of 170Not in the top three

ContractSafe6 of 171Not 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 SAP Ariba. 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 3 of the 17 answers that named SAP Ariba and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

sirion.ai3

bindlegal.com2

getaccept.com2

haqq.ai2

ironcladapp.com2

oneflow.com2

reddit.com2

spendflo.com2

worksuite.com2

aibusinessgeek.com1

No domain is on file for SAP Ariba, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

sirion.ai/library/clm-platform/contract-management-software3

bindlegal.com/resources/best-software/best-clm-tools2

getaccept.com/blog/best-contract-management-software2

haqq.ai/blog/contract-lifecycle-management-software2

ironcladapp.com/journal/contract-management/best-contract-management-tools2

oneflow.com/blog/contract-lifecycle-management-software2

reddit.com/r/procurement/comments/1puhgbt/what_contract_lifecycle_management_software_is2

spendflo.com/blog/top-contract-lifecycle-management-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

The company

SAP is the company behind SAP Ariba.

Website: sap.com
Headquarters: Walldorf, Germany
Founded: 1972
Employees: about 106,043 (2023)
Ownership: Public, SAP on Italian 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 · Crunchbase

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