Every category where a model named Zoho Contracts 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
Contract lifecycle management and e-signature	Revenue operations	12%	4 of 65	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by PandaDoc at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Zoho Contracts yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Zoho Contracts across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	2
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained16 labels11

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 11 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.

“Best Overall Value ... For a limited budget, Zoho Contracts or ContractSafe are typically the best choices” MiniMax M2.5 · CLM · budget prompt · first choice

“Best Overall for Small Teams: Zoho Contracts ... the most accessible end-to-end option on the market” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CLM · budget prompt · first choice

“My recommendation: Start with Zoho Contracts (free tier) or PandaDoc Starter ($19/user)” Kimi K2 · CLM · budget prompt · first choice

“Zoho Contracts is widely considered the best overall value in 2026” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CLM · budget prompt · first choice

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Zoho Contracts, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Zoho Contracts was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

PandaDoc22 of 257Not in the top three

ContractSafe18 of 255Not in the top three

Concord16 of 254Not in the top three

Ironclad12 of 250Not in the top three

ContractWorks11 of 251Not in the top three

ContractZen8 of 251Not in the top three

DocuSign CLM8 of 250Not in the top three

GetAccept7 of 250Not in the top three

Contractbook6 of 250Not in the top three

Agiloft5 of 250Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Zoho Contracts. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 4 of the 25 answers that named Zoho Contracts and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bindlegal.com4

worksbuddy.ai4

bigcontacts.com3

conga.com3

g2.com3

getaccept.com3

learn.g2.com3

sirion.ai3

checkbox.ai2

geekflare.com2

Thirty of the thirty domain citations in answers naming Zoho Contracts came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

worksbuddy.ai/blogs/what-are-the-best-contract-management-lifecycle-software-for-small-bus4

bigcontacts.com/blog/best-contract-lifecycle-management-systems3

bindlegal.com/resources/best-software/best-clm-tools3

bindlegal.com/resources/best-software/small-business-clm3

conga.com/resources/blog/contract-management-tools3

getaccept.com/blog/best-contract-management-software3

learn.g2.com/best-clm-software3

sirion.ai/library/clm-platform/contract-management-software3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

The company

Zoho Office Suite is the company behind Zoho Contracts.

Website: zoho.com
Headquarters: India, India
Founded: 1996

From Wikidata, fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · LinkedIn · Crunchbase

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