1 category · RankedWATI
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMS and WhatsApp marketing platforms | Marketing | 4% | 11 of 111 | 5% | 22 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated WATI across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Only use platforms that are Official Meta Business Solution Partners (BSPs) and route messages through the official WhatsApp Business Cloud API (e.g., Wati, Respond.io, CleverTap, Twilio, Bird, or AiSensy)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SMS & WhatsApp · negative prompt · first choice
“WhatsApp: Wati for a WhatsApp-first, compliant Business API setup with simple automation” Muse Glimmer 30B · SMS & WhatsApp · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Wati is frequently cited as a top choice for small and mid-sized B2B companies.” Mistral Small · SMS & WhatsApp · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Official WhatsApp marketing software, broadcasting, automation, CRM, chatbots, contact management and detailed analytics.” Muse Glimmer 30B · SMS & WhatsApp · comparative 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.
“I would generally advise against Wati for a mid-sized B2B.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SMS & WhatsApp · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as WATI, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and WATI was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 55 of the 56 answers that named WATI and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
210 of the 229 domain citations in answers naming WATI came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
wati.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, WATI takes 4% of first choices and Customer.io takes 17%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,900 a month (“wati”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 150 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 6,309 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,212 · 66 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 4,219
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 6 across its categories
- Named in
- 56 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 55 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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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,004 | 7 | 2026-09-04 | CRM, SEO | |
| Case study | 61 | 24 | 2026-09-07 | ||
| Report or ebook | 52 | 4 | 2026-09-22 | CRM | |
| Comparison | 38 | 6 | 2026-08-18 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 29 | 0 | 2026-04-17 | ||
| Template or tool | 4 | 0 | 2025-12-31 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 2 | 0 | 2024-06-18 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page wati.io 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. Of its titles that name a category, most name CRM (12); 0 name the category the models place it in. 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 WATI
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for WATI by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where WATI 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 WATI, 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.