Small business▲+9Since September 2026: 0% → 9%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
9%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 2 pointsRank 20 → 4 of 76
2 categories · RankedViral Loops
57Judge labels
5First choices
21Negative labels
13 / 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.
Best standing
10% in Referrals for small business buyers
Rank 40 of 112 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 40% of its 20 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Viral Loops →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business4 of 83
10%16 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market40 of 112
0%20 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise68 of 69
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
In referrals · 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 Viral Loops 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Referral and partner programs | Partner and channel | 0% | 40 of 112 | 40% | 20 | criticized challenger | ▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Loyalty, advocacy and referrals | Marketing | 0% | 67 of 110 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Smile.io at 26% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Viral Loops held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Referrals · by segment
Mid-market▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 6 → 28 of 106
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 70 → 64 of 65
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Referrals | 4% | 0% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 40 of 112 |
| Loyalty | 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 100 → 67 of 110 |
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 Viral Loops 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 Viral Loops 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative20 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained11 labels5
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative21 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative57 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 6 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.
“Viral Loops is strong for startups running referral-driven waitlists, giveaways, or product launch campaigns” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Referrals · comparative prompt · alternative
“Pre-launch viral campaign or contest → Viral Loops (pre-built viral templates)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Referrals · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for Startups (Free Trial) ... highly customizable and popular among growth teams” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Referrals · budget prompt · alternative
“A pre-launch startup or newsletter | Viral Loops or SparkLoop” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Referrals · 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.
“"Consumer-first tools like ReferralCandy and Viral Loops fail B2B programs because they track by user ID, not org, and have no CRM integration"” Muse Glimmer 30B · Referrals · negative prompt · hard negative
“Buggy chat app, operators rarely available, and inaccurate responses (Trustpilot).” Grok 4.20 · Referrals · negative prompt · hard negative
“Tools like ReferralCandy and Viral Loops are designed for consumer e-commerce and may not suit B2B programs.” Mistral Small · Referrals · negative prompt · soft negative
“consumer-first tools like ReferralCandy and Viral Loops may not be suitable for B2B businesses” Llama 4 Maverick · Referrals · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Viral Loops, over the 57 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Viral Loops was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Viral Loops, over the 57 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Viral Loops 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 Viral Loops. 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 57 of the 57 answers that named Viral Loops and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
growsurf.com29
cello.so24
openloyalty.io24
referralcandy.com23
tremendous.com21
prefinery.com18
referral-factory.com18
kickofflabs.com16
viral-loops.comYour site16
moosend.com15
188 of the 204 domain citations in answers naming Viral Loops came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
viral-loops.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Viral Loops takes 0% of first choices and PartnerStack takes 22%.ShowHide
Search and answers
viral-loops.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Viral Loops takes 0% of first choices and PartnerStack takes 22%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “referral program software”
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not in the top ten
Position for “best referral program software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 590 a month (“viral loops”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,158 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,478 · 13 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,991
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 40 of 112 in referrals
Segment leader
22%
PartnerStack
- First choices
- 5 across its categories
- Named in
- 57 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 57 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 viral-loops.com
599
subdomains included
Content
279
counted in the table below
Documentation
235
Product · Integration
1 · 21
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 219 | undated | SEO, Landing pages | ||
| Comparison | 25 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 12 | undated | |||
| Case study | 8 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 7 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | undated | |||
| News or press | 3 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page viral-loops.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 Viral Loops
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The company
Viral Loops is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Viral Loops is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The all-in-one referral platform built for growth.
- For
- businesses
- Price stated
- Start-up — annual billing $35.00; Plus — annual billing $99.00; Growing — annual billing $159.00; Power — annual billing $279.00; Start-up — monthly billing $49.00; Plus — monthly billing $139.00; Growing — monthly billing $229.00; Power — monthly billing $399.00 viral-loops.com
- Starting price
- 35 viral-loops.com
- Free plan or trial
- Try for free viral-loops.com
- Integrations claimed
- 500 viral-loops.com/integrations
- Customers named
- The GISTExnessThe KnowVeryGoodCopyRevolutHarry'sAirbnbRobinhood
- Not stated on the pages read
- Certifications, hosting
What Viral Loops's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: viral-loops.com, viral-loops.com/pricing, viral-loops.com/platforms/mailchimp-referral-programs, viral-loops.com/blog/case-studies, viral-loops.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
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 Viral Loops'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 Viral Loops, 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 Viral Loops by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Viral Loops 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 Viral Loops, 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.