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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Think with Google

9Judge labels

3First choices

1Negative labels

8 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Think with Google was named 6 times in Market intelligence and 1 other category, where Apollo.io led with 17%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business19 of 140

under the label threshold

Mid-market12 of 172

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In market intelligence · 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 Think with Google 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
Market intelligence platforms	GTM data and infrastructure	3%	12 of 172	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Apollo.io at 17%
Audience and consumer insights platforms	Marketing	0%	149 of 155	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by SparkToro at 19%

Movement

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	1	0	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	1	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained7 labels3

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 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.

“Google Trends + Think with Google + Census Business Builder (all free) for demand validation” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Market intelligence · budget prompt · first choice

“are highly recommended for pre-seed or seed-stage companies due to their affordability” Mistral Small · Market intelligence · budget prompt · first choice

“Pair with Think with Google (free market insights, consumer data).” Grok 4.1 Fast · Market intelligence · budget 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.

“More of an insights resource than a full audience intelligence platform” Perplexity Sonar · Audience insights · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Think with Google, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Think with Google was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Trends8 of 91Not among the top eight

SurveyMonkey7 of 90Not among the top eight

Awario6 of 90Not among the top eight

Census Business Builder5 of 90Not among the top eight

Semrush5 of 90Not among the top eight

Similarweb4 of 90Not among the top eight

Visualping4 of 90Not among the top eight

Google Alerts3 of 91Not among the top eight

Crayon3 of 90Not among the top eight

Klue3 of 90Not 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 Think with Google. 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 9 of the 9 answers that named Think with Google and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

waveup.com8

thecmo.com6

cleverx.com5

smarte.pro5

g2.com4

marketful.com4

marketingscoop.com4

socialchamp.com4

softwaresuggest.com4

dupple.com3

No domain is on file for Think with Google, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

waveup.com/blog/top-12-market-research-software8

thecmo.com/tools/best-market-intelligence-software6

cleverx.com/blog/best-market-research-platforms-for-startups-in-20265

smarte.pro/blog/market-intelligence-tools5

marketingscoop.com/ai/market-intelligence-software4

softwaresuggest.com/market-intelligence-software4

dupple.com/learn/best-market-intelligence-tools3

marketful.com/market-intelligence-tools3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Think with Google by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Think with Google 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 Think with Google, 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.