| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ecommerce search and merchandising | Marketing | 8% | 5 of 74 | 24% | 34 | accepted challenger |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Searchspring is the standout choice — it's purpose-built for mid-market retailers and B2B commerce” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Ecommerce search · direct prompt · first choice
“The most B2B-aligned mid-market pick: Searchspring / Klevu under Athos Commerce” Muse Glimmer 30B · Ecommerce search · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Searchspring / Athos Commerce is the most cited mid-market fit” Muse Glimmer 30B · Ecommerce search · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with Clerk.io or Searchspring” MiniMax M2.5 · Ecommerce search · direct prompt · first choice
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.
“Searchspring (now part of Athos Commerce): - Red flags: Long onboarding (4+ weeks, sometimes billable during setup).” Grok 4.1 Fast · Ecommerce search · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid mid-market tools like Constructor or Searchspring if budget is the main constraint” Perplexity Sonar · Ecommerce search · budget prompt · hard negative
“enterprise-focused, custom pricing almost always $1,000+/month” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Ecommerce search · budget prompt · hard negative
“Significantly cheaper than enterprise solutions like Algolia ($1,000+/month) or Searchspring ($1,000-$5,000/month)” MiniMax M2.5 · Ecommerce search · budget prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 83 of the 87 answers that named Searchspring and are not a share of its labels.
348 of the 348 domain citations in answers naming Searchspring came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.
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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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 Searchspring'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 Searchspring, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Searchspring by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows: