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Attribution and marketing mix modeling · November 2026 Edition

Rockerbox vs Google Meridian

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Four of fourteen models named Rockerbox first on the direct prompt; zero named Google Meridian. Rockerbox was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Google Meridian by fourteen and Rockerbox carries 28 labels and Google Meridian 36, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Rockerbox

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Google Meridian

accepted challenger

By Google, Mountain View, California, United States, founded 1998. Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share12%8%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate4%19%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#4A position in a field of 22; printed, not drawn.
Labels2836A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Rockerbox reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Dreamdata was named alongside these two in ten of the fourteen direct answers. Dreamdata vs Rockerbox · Dreamdata vs Google Meridian · Rockerbox vs Google Analytics 4

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the attribution and marketing mix modeling page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
RockerboxFirst choices, of fourteen modelsGoogle Meridian
Direct40
Paraphrase102 against Google Meridian
Comparative201 against Google Meridian
Budget-constrained151 against Rockerbox
Scale-constrained10
Negative104 against Google Meridian
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Rockerbox and Google Meridian were named in the same answer thirty-seven times, of the 93 answers naming Rockerbox and the 107 naming Google Meridian. In those answers Google Meridian took the first choice one time and Rockerbox eight.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Rockerbox and Google Meridian stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Rockerbox Google Meridian first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Rockerbox on the left and Google Meridian on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Rockerbox and Google Meridian stood in it.

Rockerbox first, Google Meridian not the choice

4 of 14 modelsGoogle Meridian was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Grok 4.20Rockerbox alternatives: Dreamdata, Measured, Recast
Llama 4 MaverickRockerbox alternatives: Adobe Marketo Measure, Attribution App, Recast
Qwen 3.7 FlashRockerbox alternatives: Attribution App, Recast
GLM 4.7 FlashXMammoth Analytics, Rockerbox alternatives: Adobe Marketo Measure, Funnel, Usermaven

Neither was the first choice, one was named

3 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Perplexity SonarDreamdata alternatives: HockeyStack, Measured, Rockerbox
Kimi K2HockeyStack alternatives: Dreamdata, Rockerbox
Muse Glimmer 30BDreamdata alternatives: Attribution App, Rockerbox

Neither was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Dreamdata, Recast alternatives: Adobe Marketo Measure, CaliberMind, Factors.ai, HockeyStack, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Improvado
GPT-5.4 miniDreamdata, Keen Decision Systems alternatives: Analytic Partners, HockeyStack, Lifesight
Gemini 3.5 FlashDreamdata alternatives: HockeyStack, InfiniGrow, Measured, Recast
Mistral SmallDreamdata, Funnel alternatives: Analytic Partners, HockeyStack, Kontrol Media, Recast, Ruler Analytics
DeepSeek V4 FlashNorthbeam alternatives: Dreamdata, Factors.ai, Lifesight, LiftLab, Measured
MiniMax M2.5Dreamdata alternatives: Factors.ai, HockeyStack, Ruler Analytics
GPT-6 LunaRuler Analytics alternatives: CaliberMind

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Google Meridian leads by six points.
Google Meridian8%#4 of 19
Rockerbox2%#13 of 19
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Rockerbox leads at mid-market.
Rockerbox12%#2 of 22
Google Meridian8%#4 of 22
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Rockerbox leads by seventeen points.
Rockerbox17%#2 of 16
Google Meridian0%#12 of 16
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Rockerbox

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of five in this category shown.

“platforms (like Northbeam or Rockerbox) typically cost thousands of dollars monthly” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · soft negative
“If e-commerce/omnichannel: Look for unified MMM+MTA with strong privacy resilience (Rockerbox, SegmentStream, Northbeam)” Kimi K2 · scale prompt · first choice
“The best marketing attribution and marketing mix modeling platform for a mid-market B2B company is Rockerbox” Llama 4 Maverick · direct prompt · first choice
“For a balance, consider Rockerbox (attribution + incrementality) combined with Robyn (MMM).” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Google Meridian

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.

“Google Meridian (MMM): No managed platform experience, no optimization features, and no customer support” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · hard negative
“require significant in-house data science expertise — not practical for most mid-sized teams” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“they require data-science/econometric capability, engineering, validation and ongoing maintenance; they are not plug-and-play SaaS products” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · soft negative
“If you have technical capabilities: Use Google Meridian or Meta Robyn. You get world-class Bayesian MMM for $0 in software costs.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“the best overall approach is usually Google Meridian if you have someone who can work with data” Perplexity Sonar · budget prompt · first choice
“Google Meridian is a free, open-source Bayesian MMM framework from Google” Grok 4.20 · budget prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.