Close is a sales CRM for calling, emailing, texting and automation, built for teams that sell · close.com ↗
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Close has 5.
No positive label carried a quote.
“Avoid or be cautious about Close due to its missing features, call issues, and limited customization.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Close CRM is a sales tool, not a financial close solution.”Mistral Small · Comparative question · warning
“If referring to Close CRM (formerly Close.io), user reviews highlight: Mobile app limitations – Missing features compared to desktop”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning
“If you need a CRM that's heavy on mobile use, deep customization, or B2C operations, this may not be your first choice.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
The products named in the same answers as Close, over the 11 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 2 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
Stated on Close's own site, not checked by Gane.
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 →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 11 of the 11 answers that named Close and are not a share of its labels.
Twenty-eight of the thirty-seven domain citations in answers naming Close came from a third party's page. Two were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 893 | 8 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 209 | 0 | 2026-02-17 | ||
| Comparison | 49 | 2 | 2026-07-29 | ||
| Case study | 14 | 0 | 2025-05-15 | ||
| Report or ebook | 14 | 0 | 2020-05-27 | ||
| Conference or event | 6 | 0 | 2023-12-20 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | 0 | 2020-03-03 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2023-12-15 |
Every page close.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. 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.