2 categories · RankedCleverbridge
Cleverbridge is a merchant of record service for companies that sell software to customers around the world · cleverbridge.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise, contested with Paddle. Ranked 9 of 62 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Paddle is first at 44%.
Paddle is first at 44%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first, contested: Paddle has 31%.
Why models recommend it
“Cleverbridge is a strong, well‑documented recommendation.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Primary Recommendation: Cleverbridge”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Top Recommendation: Cleverbridge”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Cleverbridge is the enterprise choice when compliance complexity, B2B invoicing, and dedicated support matter more than cost.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cleverbridge, over the 85 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | 43 | Compare → | |
| 76 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 43 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 30 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 24 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 21 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 21 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Cleverbridge →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cleverbridge's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- software, SaaS and digital product businesses
- Certifications
- PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA
- Hosting
- Worldwide
- Customers named
- Plesk, Cyncly, SUSE, Ashampoo, Red Hat, Shure, Parallels
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 83 of the 85 answers that named Cleverbridge and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
279 of the 315 domain citations in answers naming Cleverbridge came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 115 | 2 | 2026-08-26 | Merchants of record | |
| News or press | 39 | 0 | 2025-03-31 | ||
| Comparison | 4 | 0 | 2026-05-29 | Merchants of record | |
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 0 | 2023-06-14 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-08-26Cost of selling software kyle poyar blog
- 2026-07-21Partner led digital buying paths blog
- 2026-06-30Influencer marketing software brands blog
- 2026-05-29Stripe alternative merchant of record comparison
- 2026-04-07Digital buying b2b software blog
- 2026-03-02Migrating to cleverbridge blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cleverbridge.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. Read October 5, 2026.