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 22 → 24 of 66
5 categories · RankedSmartlead
49Judge labels
1First choices
6Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
5Categories
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
0% in AI SDR for mid-market buyers
Rank 32 of 77 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business27 of 74
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market32 of 77
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise52 of 77
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In ai sdr · 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 Smartlead 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI SDR agents | Sales | 0% | 32 of 77 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Apollo.io at 24% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Sales engagement platforms | Sales | 0% | 17 of 66 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Apollo.io at 35% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Email deliverability and testing tools | Marketing | 0% | 99 of 110 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by GlockApps at 34% | |
| Lead routing and management | Sales | 0% | 108 of 111 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by LeadAngel at 26% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Sales dialers and calling | Sales | 0% | 45 of 75 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by CloudTalk at 22% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Smartlead held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · AI SDR · by segment
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 26 → 29 of 70
Enterprise=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 47 of 69, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI SDR | 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 26 → 32 of 77 |
| Sales engagement | 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 22 → 17 of 66 |
| Email deliverability | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 99 of 110, unchanged |
| Lead routing | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 108 of 111, unchanged |
| Dialers | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 45 of 75, 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 Smartlead across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Smartlead across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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
Direct7 labelsNone
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative7 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained15 labels1
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative13 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative49 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 3 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.
“look toward modern "unlimited mailbox" platforms (like Smartlead, Instantly, or Salesforge) that are purpose-built for high deliverability” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Sales engagement · negative prompt · first choice
“industry consensus is shifting toward platforms that own infrastructure (Smartlead, Instantly, Apollo)” MiniMax M2.5 · Sales engagement · negative prompt · alternative
“Consider newer/boutique platforms (e.g., Instantly, Smartlead, Klenty, Skylead)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Sales engagement · negative prompt · alternative
“focus heavily on domain health, mailbox warmup, and deliverability monitoring” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Email deliverability · 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.
“Use only if you already have a strong sales ops team and just need sending capacity, not autonomous intelligence.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI SDR · negative prompt · hard negative
“Issues reported: Slow customer support, unresolved technical problems, unexpected software bugs” Kimi K2 · Lead routing · negative prompt · hard negative
“Smartlead's warmup was called "pretty bad compared to other services"” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Email deliverability · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Smartlead, over the 49 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Smartlead was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Smartlead, over the 49 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Smartlead was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Smartlead. 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 46 of the 49 answers that named Smartlead and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
amplemarket.com16
prospeo.io14
salesforge.ai14
blog.hubspot.com12
g2.com12
marketbetter.ai12
reddit.com11
artisan.co10
saleshandy.com10
smartlead.aiYour site10
111 of the 121 domain citations in answers naming Smartlead came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
smartlead.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Smartlead takes 0% of first choices and Apollo.io takes 24%.ShowHide
Search and answers
smartlead.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Smartlead takes 0% of first choices and Apollo.io takes 24%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ai sdr agent”
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not in the top ten
Position for “best ai sdr agent”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 6,600 a month (“smartlead”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 79 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 18,213 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 7,689 · 79 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 4,359
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 13 clicks and $588 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 32 of 77 in AI SDR
Segment leader
24%
Apollo.io
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 49 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 46 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on smartlead.ai
1,586
subdomains included
Content
899
counted in the table below
Documentation
218
Product · Integration
0 · 104
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 590 | undated | CRM, Email verification | ||
| Case study | 143 | 0 | 2024-05-06 | ||
| Comparison | 59 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 34 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 31 | 0 | 2026-03-17 | Email verification | |
| Template or tool | 23 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 10 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 4 | undated | |||
| News or press | 4 | 0 | 2024-05-06 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-03-17What is cold email mcp server glossary or explainer
- 2026-03-17What is mcp server glossary or explainer
- 2024-05-06Newsletter email template news or press
- 2024-05-06Press release email template news or press
- 2024-05-06How AI bees Achieved a 30% Reply Rate Using Smartlead | Smartlead Case Study case study
- 2024-05-06Aico valhalla case study
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page smartlead.ai exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Smartlead
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Smartlead; a claim can dispute any of them.
Instantly / Smartlead 1SmartLead.ai 1Smartlead.ai 1
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The company
Smartlead is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Smartlead is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Cold email outreach software that helps sales teams scale outbound campaigns with unlimited mailboxes, AI warmups, and deliverability infrastructure to land emails in the primary inbox.
- For
- sales teams that run outbound at scale
- Price stated
- Basic Plan at $39/month; Pro Plan ($94/month); Custom Plan ($174/month) smartlead.ai
- Starting price
- 39 smartlead.ai
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial available smartlead.ai
- Customers named
- StackOptimiseCold Email HackersDutchSave MediaGrowth TodayFueltoFlyOutboundSyncAxoleadsClaygen
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What Smartlead's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: smartlead.ai, smartlead.ai/pricing, smartlead.ai/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Smartlead'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 Smartlead, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Smartlead by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Smartlead 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 Smartlead, 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.