Small business▼−4Since September 2026: 10% → 6%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 3 → 4 of 53
Zoho · 1 category · RankedZoho Contracts
26Judge labels
8First choices
1Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
1Category
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
8% in CLM for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 63 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 12 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Zoho Contracts →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business3 of 53
7%13 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market5 of 63
8%12 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise46 of 65
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In clm · 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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract lifecycle management and e-signature | Revenue operations | 8% | 5 of 63 | 8% | 12 | accepted challenger | ▼−5Since September 2026: 12% → 7%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Zoho Contracts held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CLM · by segment
Mid-market▼−5Since September 2026: 12% → 7%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 4 → 5 of 60
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 62 → 43 of 65
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CLM | 12% | 7% | ▼−5Since September 2026: 12% → 7%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 → 5 of 63 |
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 Zoho Contracts 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 Zoho Contracts 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative5 labelsNone
Budget-constrained14 labels8
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 8 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.
“Zoho Contracts offers the most affordable entry point at $30 per user per month with native e-signatures included” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CLM · budget prompt · first choice
“For a genuinely limited budget, I'd start with Zoho Contracts.” GPT-6 Luna · CLM · budget prompt · first choice
“Zoho Contracts — Best Overall Budget Option” MiniMax M2.5 · CLM · budget prompt · first choice
“Best Overall "True" CLM on a Tight Budget” Gemini 3.5 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.
“Adoption issues — counterparties reportedly prefer negotiating outside the platform” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CLM · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Zoho Contracts, over the 26 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Zoho Contracts, over the 26 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.
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 Zoho Contracts. 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 26 of the 26 answers that named Zoho Contracts and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
worksbuddy.ai15
bindlegal.com14
conga.com12
zylo.com11
contractsafe.com10
hyperstart.com10
oneflow.com8
getaccept.com7
learn.g2.com7
g2.com6
100 of the 100 domain citations in answers naming Zoho Contracts came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Zoho Contracts stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Zoho Contracts stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 390 a month (“zoho contracts”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 8 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Zoho's site (zoho.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
8%
rank 5 of 63 in CLM
Segment leader
23%
PandaDoc
- First choices
- 8 across its categories
- Named in
- 26 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 26 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.
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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
Zoho is the company behind Zoho Contracts.ShowHide
The company
Zoho is the company behind Zoho Contracts.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Zoho
- Bigin by Zoho, Zoho Analytics, Zoho Backstage, Zoho Backstage Lead Retrieval, Zoho Billing, Zoho Bookings, Zoho CPQ, Zoho CRM and 27 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- A comprehensive CLM solution for every business
- For
- every business
- Price stated
- Simple and transparent pricing; no hidden terms or long contracts during purchase. zoho.com/contracts/why-zoho-contracts.html
- Free plan or trial
- Start your free trial! zoho.com/contracts/solutions
- Integrations claimed
- 3 zoho.com/contracts/contract-templates.html
- Hosting
- global data centers
- Customers named
- LoylogicSolve CubeParaminds
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, certifications
What Zoho Contracts's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: zoho.com/contracts/solutions, zoho.com/contracts/contract-manager.html, zoho.com/contracts/contract-approval.html, zoho.com/contracts/why-zoho-contracts.html, zoho.com/contracts/contract-templates.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Zoho Contracts'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 Zoho Contracts, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Zoho Contracts by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Zoho Contracts 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 Zoho Contracts, 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.