Every category where a model named Vendavo 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
Pricing optimization	Revenue operations	0%	11 of 76	23%	43	accepted challenger
CPQ	Revenue operations	0%	23 of 66	14%	7	under 10 labels · led by DealHub at 57%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
RFP response software	Sales	0%	70 of 82	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Loopio at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Vendavo 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 Vendavo 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	3	0	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	1	2	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	3	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	2	0	3
Grok 4.20	0	3	2	1	6
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	3	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	2	4
Kimi K2	0	1	3	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	2	1	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	1	1	4
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	1	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	0	2	4

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

Direct25 labels2

Paraphrase35 labels5

Comparative29 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained10 labels2

Scale-constrained10 labelsNone

Negative15 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative124 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 16 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.

“Choose PROS or Vendavo if you're a large B2B enterprise managing complex pricing across products, customers, and channels” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Pricing optimization · comparative prompt · first choice

“Choose Vendavo if you need complex B2B pricing, quoting, and rebate workflows in one governed system.” GPT-5.4 mini · Pricing optimization · comparative prompt · first choice

“Pricefx and Vendavo are leaders for large enterprises, especially in B2B” Mistral Small · Pricing optimization · comparative prompt · first choice

“Known for pricing analytics and optimization, particularly strong in manufacturing and distribution sectors.” MiniMax M2.5 · Pricing optimization · direct 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.

“Avoid legacy enterprise "heavyweights" unless necessary: Platforms like *Vendavo* and *PROS* ... make them difficult to justify for lean mid-market teams” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Pricing optimization · direct prompt · hard negative

“Avoid enterprise tools like Vendavo, Competera, or PROS, as they're pricier” Grok 4.20 · Pricing optimization · budget prompt · hard negative

“While strong in pricing optimization for manufacturers and distributors, it may be overkill and too complex for smaller businesses” Mistral Small · CPQ · negative prompt · soft negative

“Rather than complex legacy systems like PROS or Vendavo (which are powerful but can require lengthy, expensive implementations)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Pricing optimization · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Vendavo, over the 124 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vendavo was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Pricefx100 of 12441Not among the top eight

Zilliant86 of 1242Not among the top eight

PROS Smart Price Optimization & Management81 of 12412Not among the top eight

Competera38 of 1241Not among the top eight

Prisync37 of 12410Not among the top eight

Conga Price Optimization & Management23 of 1243Not among the top eight

Price2Spy20 of 1244Not among the top eight

Salesforce Revenue Cloud18 of 1241Not among the top eight

Revionics13 of 1240Not among the top eight

Quicklizard12 of 1240Not 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 Vendavo. 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 121 of the 124 answers that named Vendavo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com87

worldmetrics.org52

withorb.com47

g2.com46

gitnux.org45

articsledge.com40

zipdo.co35

dupple.com34

vendavo.comYour site33

virtocommerce.com33

419 of the 452 domain citations in answers naming Vendavo came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/best-pricing-software62

guideflow.com/blog/price-optimization-software56

dupple.com/learn/best-ai-price-optimization-tools34

articsledge.com/post/best-ai-pricing-tools33

virtocommerce.com/blog/b2b-pricing-tools-software33

withorb.com/blog/competitive-pricing-tools33

learn.g2.com/best-pricing-software31

withorb.com/blog/pricing-analytics-software27

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

vendavo.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Vendavo takes 0% of first choices and Pricefx takes 53%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “best pricing optimization platform”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 1,000 a month (“vendavo”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 30 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 72,496 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 2,342 · 357 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 2,095
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

62 ads · 53 image, 8 text, 1 video · 1 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2024, as Vendavo, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 5 in the year, 57 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 11 of 76 in pricing optimization

Segment leader

53%

Pricefx

First choices: 9 across its categories
Named in: 124 answers
Its own site cited: in 121 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on vendavo.com

755

subdomains included

Content

617

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

17 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	399	11	2026-09-22	CPQ, CRM
Glossary or explainer	60	0	2026-05-06	CPQ
Case study	35	0	2026-06-10
News or press	32	2	2026-08-06
Report or ebook	30	1	2026-08-31	CPQ
Podcast or video	27	0	2026-06-09
Webinar or virtual event	23	5	2026-09-24
Conference or event	9	0	2026-06-30
Comparison	2	0	2026-06-05

Most recent

2026-09-24Demo series high tech incentives on demand webinar or virtual event
2026-09-22Pricing intelligence platform guide blog
2026-09-15Why your ai investment isnt translating into pricing roi blog
2026-09-10Agentic ai in pricing webinar or virtual event
2026-09-08The pricing execution gap why more technology isnt the answer blog
2026-09-03Future of aftermarket commercial strategy blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page vendavo.com 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.

Follow Vendavo

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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The company

Vendavo is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Vendavo helps B2B manufacturers and distributors improve margins, automate quoting, and optimize rebate programs with AI-powered pricing and commercial intelligence.
vendavo.com
For: B2B manufacturers and distributors
vendavo.com
Certifications: ISO 22301ISO 27001ISO 27001:2022SOC 1SOC 1 Type 2 ReportSOC 2SOC 2 Type 2 ReportCSA Security, Trust & Assurance Registry (STAR)
Customers named: CorningCencoraVolvoDell TechnologiesSilverpoint Homes
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What Vendavo's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: vendavo.com, vendavo.com/security, vendavo.com/platform, vendavo.com/customers, vendavo.com/company/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

where Vendavo 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 Vendavo, 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.