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Searchspring

87Judge labels
10First choices
29Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
8% in Ecommerce search for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 74 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 24% of its 34 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Searchspring →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In ecommerce search · 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 Searchspring 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Ecommerce search and merchandisingMarketing8%5 of 7424%34accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Searchspring yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Searchspring across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini02103
Gemini 3.5 Flash02002
Perplexity Sonar00011
Grok 4.1 Fast03014
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash12025
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01102
Kimi K203115
GLM 4.7 FlashX03003
MiniMax M2.510023
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B20114

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
Direct16 labels4
Paraphrase8 labels1
Comparative18 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained13 labels3
Scale-constrained14 labels2
Negative18 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative87 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 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.

“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

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.

“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

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Searchspring, over the 87 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Searchspring was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Constructor31 of 874Not among the top eight
Nosto27 of 871Not among the top eight
Fast Simon16 of 870Not among the top eight
Elasticsearch15 of 871Not 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 Searchspring. 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 83 of the 87 answers that named Searchspring and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com48
netguru.com48
clerk.io38
valiantceo.com37
ringly.io35
gitnux.org32
g2.com31
learn.g2.com31
zoovu.com26
nobi.ai22

348 of the 348 domain citations in answers naming Searchspring came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

searchspring.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Searchspring takes 8% of first choices and Algolia takes 25%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “best ecommerce search and merchandising platform”
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not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
720 a month (“searchspring”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
8 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 275 a month
Searches its site ranks for
24 · 5 in the top three
Sites linking to it
1,510
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
8%
rank 5 of 74 in ecommerce search
Segment leader
25%
Algolia
First choices
10 across its categories
Named in
87 answers
Its own site cited
in 83 of the answers that named it

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.

Names read as Searchspring

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Searchspring; a claim can dispute any of them.
Searchspring (now Athos Commerce) 4Klevu / Searchspring (Athos Commerce) 1Searchspring (Athos Commerce) 1Searchspring (also Athos Commerce) 1Searchspring (now part of Athos Commerce) 1

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  • where Searchspring 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 Searchspring, 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;
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