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Index Vendors › ZoomInfo Operations · September 2026 Edition
ZoomInfo · 3 categories · Ranked

ZoomInfo Operations

90Judge labels
12First choices
25Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
13% in CRM data quality for enterprise buyers
Rank 3 of 104 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 27 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In crm data quality · 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 ZoomInfo Operations 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
CRM data quality and deduplicationRevenue operations11%3 of 10422%27accepted challenger
Lead routing and managementSales0%36 of 1040%2under 10 labels · led by LeadAngel at 32%
Identity resolutionGTM data and infrastructure0%87 of 1510%1under 10 labels · led by Hightouch at 15%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ZoomInfo Operations 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 ZoomInfo Operations across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510001
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash01023
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast02114
Mistral Small12104
DeepSeek V4 Flash01124
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash12003
Kimi K203115
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.522004

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
Direct18 labels7
Paraphrase17 labels2
Comparative15 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained5 labelsNone
Scale-constrained21 labels3
Negative14 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative90 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 14 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.

“ZoomInfo Operations is purpose-built for B2B revenue teams that need continuous enrichment, deduplication, and compliance in a single platform.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CRM data quality · direct prompt · first choice
“### 1. RingLead (ZoomInfo Operations) - Best for: Mid-market companies needing CRM + marketing automation deduplication” MiniMax M2.5 · CRM data quality · direct prompt · first choice
“Best Overall for Most Mid-Market B2B Teams 1. RingLead (ZoomInfo Operations)” Mistral Small · CRM data quality · direct prompt · first choice
“A deduplication tool (DemandTools or RingLead for Salesforce” MiniMax M2.5 · CRM data quality · scale 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.

“Extremely expensive: Starting at ~$15,000/year, with some reports of $80K/year quotes for small teams” Kimi K2 · CRM data quality · negative prompt · hard negative
“It is highly expensive and usually requires buying into the broader ZoomInfo ecosystem, making it cost-prohibitive for some mid-market budgets.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CRM data quality · direct prompt · soft negative
“expensive enterprise data orchestration tools like RingLead (ZoomInfo) or DemandTools (Validity) are often out of reach” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CRM data quality · budget prompt · soft negative
“RingLead (pre-ZoomInfo acquisition: ignored tickets, billing errors, auto-renewal traps)” Grok 4.1 Fast · CRM data quality · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ZoomInfo Operations, over the 87 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ZoomInfo Operations was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
DemandTools62 of 8715Not in the top three
Cloudingo35 of 871Not in the top three
Apollo.io25 of 872Not in the top three
Openprise25 of 872Not in the top three
Informatica24 of 871Not in the top three
Plauti22 of 871Not in the top three
Dedupely21 of 873Not in the top three
ZoomInfo19 of 870Not 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 ZoomInfo Operations. 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 9 of the 87 answers that named ZoomInfo Operations and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cognism.com7
integrate.io5
leadangel.com5
cleanlist.ai4
digi-texx.com4
pipeline.zoominfo.comYour site4
clearout.io3
allegrow.co2
darwinapps.com2
default.com2

Thirty-four of the thirty-eight domain citations in answers naming ZoomInfo Operations came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as ZoomInfo Operations

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as ZoomInfo Operations; a claim can dispute any of them.
RingLead 11RingLead (ZoomInfo Operations) 4RingLead (ZoomInfo Ops) 2RingLead (ZoomInfo) 2RingLead (by ZoomInfo) 2ZoomInfo Operations (formerly RingLead) 2RingLead (now part of ZoomInfo) 1RingLead/ZoomInfo Operations 1

The company

ZoomInfo is the company behind ZoomInfo Operations.
Website
zoominfo.com
Headquarters
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Founded
2000
Ownership
Public, GTM on Nasdaq

From Wikidata, fetched September 14, 2026, with a correction applied. 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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