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Partner relationship management for enterprise buyers

Asked as “partner relationship management platform”, and as “PRM software”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 48 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
48%
Clear leader
48Impartner PRM17ZINFI Unified Partner Management15Salesforce PRM21others

48% of first choices, clear leader.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Impartner PRM48%8%61endorsed leader
02ZINFI Unified Partner Management17%5%43accepted challenger
03Salesforce PRM15%32%57criticized challenger
04Channeltivity6%24%25accepted challenger
05Channelscaler4%15%26accepted challenger
06Magentrix PRM4%0%10accepted challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
09PartnerStack0%45%29criticized challenger
08JourneyBee0%20%10accepted challenger
07Unifyr0%10%21accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.
All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative60%
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01Impartner PRM48%
02ZINFI Unified Partner Management17%
03Salesforce PRM15%
04Channeltivity6%
05Channelscaler4%
06Magentrix PRM4%
07Unifyr0%
08JourneyBee0%
09PartnerStack0%

What they warned about

Six of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.20, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick and Qwen 3.7 Flash changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Salesforce PRM
32%
18 of 57 labels negative · 11 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“What to avoid for this specific need... priced per partner member per month... directly undercuts your "predictable TCO" requirement” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
PartnerStack
45%
13 of 29 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“One source also explicitly says to avoid Impact and PartnerStack if you do not want commission-based PRM economics on partner sales.[1]” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt
Channeltivity
24%
6 of 25 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“❌ AVOID — Cheapest option at $499-$1,499/mo but lacks enterprise depth.” Kimi K2, negative prompt
Impartner PRM
8%
5 of 61 labels negative · 5 of 12 models
“Caution: UX & Implementation — Dated backend UI, steep learning curve... Still considered "safest pick" for enterprise” Kimi K2, negative prompt

What they cite

Four of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited.

Sites the answers cite

22 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 4 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 294 links across 112 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. The other 8 models searched through a gateway that returned no source list on this edition.

vendor site · ZINFI13 answers · 27 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Monday.com13 answers · 14 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Guideflow11 answers · 11 citations · 3 models
vendor site · PartnerPortal.io10 answers · 15 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Partnerplace10 answers · 10 citations · 3 models
vendor site · xAmplify9 answers · 11 citations · 3 models
vendor site · JourneyBee8 answers · 14 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Salesforce8 answers · 10 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Introw8 answers · 9 citations · 3 models
6 answers · 11 citations · 3 models
vendor site · Gartner6 answers · 7 citations · 3 models
6 answers · 6 citations · 3 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best partner relationship management platform”, “partner relationship management platform”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Impartner PRM impartner.com48%312110163,02078
Salesforce parent site
Salesforce PRM 15%, Salesforce Sales Cloud 2%, Salesforce Experience Cloud 0%, Salesforce Revenue Cloud 0%
17%318550,00060,632
ZINFI Unified Partner Management zinfi.com17%23710070,6391
Channeltivity channeltivity.com6%9921002,179
Channelscaler channelscaler.com4%1412603948$279139
Magentrix PRM magentrix.com4%411002,4602
Creatio creatio.com2%244,400147146,708$12,00518
Introw PRM introw.io2%442,21322
Unifyr unifyr.com0%15121022,8779
JourneyBee journeybee.io0%535004,2434

Google's top ten for the two searches hold 11 sites; 5 of them are among the sites the models cited here (gartner.com, journeybee.io, monday.com, salesforce.com, zinfi.com). The first result for “best partner relationship management platform” is zinfi.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best partner relationship management platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which PRM software would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade partner relationship management platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best partner relationship management platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a partner relationship management platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which partner relationship management platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Three alternativesImpartner PRM, Salesforce PRM, Unifyr
Impartner PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner ManagementChanged
One alternativeSalesforce PRM
ZINFI Unified Partner Management
One alternativeImpartner PRM
against: Salesforce PRM
Channelscaler
Two alternativesChanneltivity, Salesforce PRM
no first choiceagainst: Salesforce PRM
GPT-5.4 miniSalesforce PRM
Three alternativesChanneltivity, Impartner PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Salesforce PRMHeld
Two alternativesChanneltivity, Impartner PRM
Impartner PRM, Salesforce PRM
Four alternativesChannelscaler, Channeltivity, Magentrix PRM, Oracle Partner Relationship Management
Channeltivity
One alternativeImpartner PRM
no first choiceagainst: Impartner PRM, Oracle Partner Relationship Management, Salesforce PRM
Gemini 3.5 FlashImpartner PRM
Five alternativesJourneyBee, PartnerStack, Salesforce PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management, xAmplify
Impartner PRMHeld
Four alternativesChannelscaler, JourneyBee, Salesforce Experience Cloud, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Impartner PRM
Five alternativesMagentrix PRM, PartnerStack, Salesforce PRM, Unifyr, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Two alternativesChannelscaler, Channeltivity
against: Salesforce PRM
no first choiceagainst: CinnaLab.io, Clazar, JourneyBee, Kiflo PRM, PartnerPortal.io, PartnerStack, Salesforce PRM, Tackle.io, impact.com
Perplexity SonarSalesforce Sales Cloud
Three alternativesCreatio, HubSpot Sales Hub, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales
Impartner PRMChanged
Three alternativesSalesforce PRM, Unifyr, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Impartner PRM
Three alternativesSalesforce PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management, impact.com
against: PartnerStack
Creatioagainst: Salesforce PRMno first choiceagainst: Channeltivity, Introw PRM, PartnerStack, Partnerplace, impact.com
Grok 4.20Impartner PRM, Salesforce PRM
Two alternativesUnifyr, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
against: Kiflo PRM, PartnerStack
Impartner PRMChanged
One alternativeSalesforce PRM
against: JourneyBee, Kiflo PRM, PartnerStack
Impartner PRM
Four alternativesChanneltivity, Magentrix PRM, Salesforce PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
against: PartnerStack
Channeltivity
Two alternativesMagentrix PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
against: Salesforce PRM
Impartner PRM, Magentrix PRM, Salesforce PRMagainst: Channelscaler, Channeltivity, Impartner PRM, PartnerStack, Salesforce PRM, Unifyr, WorkSpan, impact.com
Mistral SmallImpartner PRM
Two alternativesSalesforce PRM, Unifyr
Impartner PRMHeld
Four alternativesChannelscaler, Channeltivity, Salesforce PRM, Unifyr
Impartner PRM
Four alternativesChanneltivity, PartnerStack, Salesforce PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Impartner PRM
Three alternativesChannelscaler, Salesforce PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
no first choiceagainst: HubSpot CRM, Impartner PRM, PartnerStack, Salesforce PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
DeepSeek V4 FlashImpartner PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Two alternativesPartnerStack, Salesforce PRM
Impartner PRMChanged
One alternativeZINFI Unified Partner Management
against: Salesforce PRM
Impartner PRM
Six alternativesChannelscaler, Channeltivity, PartnerStack, Salesforce PRM, Unifyr, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Impartner PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Managementagainst: Salesforce PRMno first choice
Three alternativesImpartner PRM, Magentrix PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
against: Channelplace, Channelscaler, Channeltivity, Impartner PRM, Mindmatrix, Outbound, Salesforce PRM
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceImpartner PRM, Salesforce PRMChangedno first choiceImpartner PRMno first choiceagainst: PartnerStack
Qwen 3.7 FlashImpartner PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Two alternativesChanneltivity, Salesforce PRM
Impartner PRMChanged
Two alternativesSalesforce PRM, Unifyr
against: HubSpot Partners, PartnerStack
Impartner PRM
Six alternativesChannelscaler, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, Oracle NetSuite, PartnerHero, Salesforce Revenue Cloud, impact.com
Channeltivity
Three alternativesCaspio, Impartner PRM, Zoho Creator
against: DealHub, Salesforce PRM
no first choiceagainst: Introw PRM, Kiflo PRM, PartnerStack, impact.com
Kimi K2Impartner PRM
Two alternativesSalesforce PRM, Unifyr
against: Channelscaler
Impartner PRMHeld
Three alternativesSalesforce PRM, Unifyr, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Impartner PRM
Four alternativesOracle Partner Relationship Management, Salesforce PRM, Unifyr, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Impartner PRM
Two alternativesChanneltivity, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
against: Salesforce PRM
no first choiceagainst: Channelscaler, Channeltivity, Crossbeam, Impartner PRM, Kiflo PRM, PartnerPortal.io, PartnerStack, Salesforce PRM, Unifyr
GLM 4.7 FlashXZINFI Unified Partner Management
Three alternativesImpartner PRM, PartnerStack, impact.com
ZINFI Unified Partner ManagementHeld
One alternativeImpartner PRM
against: Channeltivity
Impartner PRM
Three alternativesPartnerStack, Salesforce PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Channelscaler
Two alternativesImpartner PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
against: Salesforce PRM
no first choiceagainst: HubSpot CRM, HubSpot PRM, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, Salesforce CRM, Salesforce PRM
MiniMax M2.5Impartner PRM, Salesforce PRM
Two alternativesJourneyBee, PartnerStack
Impartner PRM, Salesforce PRMHeld
Three alternativesChannelscaler, PartnerStack, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Impartner PRM
Four alternativesChanneltivity, PartnerStack, Salesforce PRM, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Impartner PRM
One alternativeJourneyBee
against: Salesforce PRM
Introw PRM, Magentrix PRM
One alternativeImpartner PRM
against: PartnerStack
against: Channeltivity, ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 00:39yes88 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 00:42yes44 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 03:20yes1422 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:49yes206 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 01:51yes07 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 00:33yes09 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-14 22:52yes017 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 03:16yes01 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:28yes044 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:58yes032 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 00:46yes013 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 02:48yes029 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 02:16yes99 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 01:22yes34 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 04:36yes1226 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 00:59yes206 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 00:04yes07 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 03:02yes09 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 00:12yes044 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 02:35yes02 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 01:05yes049 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 00:19yes028 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 02:46yes024 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 23:54yes013 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 04:09yes1513 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:10yes810 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 04:53yes1825 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-14 23:11yes188 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 03:28yes08 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 05:03yes07 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-14 22:55yes044 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 04:00yes02 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 02:19no043 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-14 23:36yes077 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 01:40yes094 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 01:24yes014 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 02:14yes169 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 00:22yes23 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 01:07yes1925 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 04:59yes205 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-14 23:17yes09 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 00:07yes06 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 01:15yes016 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-15 02:49yes01 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 02:20yes061 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-14 23:15yes035 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 02:13yes0102 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 01:20yes019 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-15 04:38yes1813 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 03:04no015 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 01:39no018 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 01:55yes2011 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 03:39yes09 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 04:39yes011 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-15 03:22yes0101 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:17yes02 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-14 23:26no033 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 04:04yes034 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-14 23:42yes0138 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-15 04:22yes021 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-14 23:43yes149 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-15 04:50yes47 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-15 02:46yes1226 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-15 01:47yes207 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-15 04:18yes010 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-15 03:49yes06 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-15 00:41yes026 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-14 23:54yes01 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-15 02:10yes027 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-15 01:46yes068 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-15 01:44yes018 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-14 23:54yes030 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
HubSpot read as HubSpot CRM
Impartner read as Impartner PRM
Introw read as Introw PRM
Kiflo read as Kiflo PRM
Magentrix read as Magentrix PRM
Microsoft Dynamics PRM read as Microsoft Dynamics 365 PRM
Salesforce read as Salesforce PRM
Salesforce PRM / Experience Cloud read as Salesforce PRM
Salesforce Partner Relationship Management read as Salesforce PRM
Salesforce Partner Relationship Management (PRM) read as Salesforce PRM
ZINFI read as ZINFI Unified Partner Management
ZINFI UPM read as ZINFI Unified Partner Management
Unresolved, counted raw
DealCloud
PartnerHero
Tackle.io
Zentail
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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