60% of first choices, clear leader.
“Better suited for SMB and mid-market \u2014 generally not recommended for complex enterprise deployments.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, direct prompt
“Avoid Salesforce unless you need enterprise-grade customization that justifies unpredictable scaling costs” Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt
“Avoid or be cautious with SMB/mid-market-focused CRMs... Lacks depth in advanced sales ops, territory management, and compliance for 100+ users” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
“performance degrades at 50+ users or millions of records... thinner compliance... create risks” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
18 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. 255 links across 157 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.
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.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforce parent site Salesforce Sales Cloud 60%, Salesforce CRM 0% | 60% | 318 | 550,000 | 60,632 | ||||
| Microsoft parent site Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales 19% | 19% | 137 | 2,240,000 | 403,136 | ||||
| Creatio creatio.com | 5% | 24 | 4,400 | 147 | 146,708 | $12,005 | 18 | 7 |
| HubSpot parent site HubSpot Sales Hub 5%, HubSpot CRM 0% | 5% | 687 | 368,000 | 9,776 | ||||
| Zoho parent site Zoho CRM 5% | 5% | 331 | 49,500 | 660 | ||||
| GoHighLevel gohighlevel.com | 2% | 18 | ||||||
| Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement | 2% | |||||||
| Conduyt conduyt.com | 2% | 1 | ||||||
| SAP Sales Cloud | 0% | 135,000 | 74,309 | |||||
| Oracle parent site Oracle Sales 0%, Oracle CX 0%, Oracle NetSuite CRM 0% | 0% | 26 | 450,000 | 66,611 |
Google's top ten for the two searches hold 13 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (creatio.com, salesforce.com, solutionsreview.com). The first result for “best crm” is salesforce.com.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-15 04:13 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-15 04:25 | yes | 3 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-15 01:35 | yes | 7 | 20 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-15 01:07 | yes | 19 | 6 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-14 23:58 | yes | 0 | 6 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-14 23:57 | yes | 0 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-09-15 00:36 | yes | 0 | 39 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-15 04:31 | yes | 0 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-14 23:52 | no | 0 | 29 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-14 23:28 | yes | 0 | 22 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-15 00:25 | yes | 0 | 35 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-15 02:30 | yes | 0 | 13 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-15 03:40 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-15 02:31 | yes | 3 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-15 02:15 | yes | 11 | 22 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-15 04:35 | yes | 20 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-15 04:36 | yes | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-15 00:26 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-15 03:46 | yes | 0 | 22 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-15 04:32 | yes | 0 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-14 23:27 | yes | 0 | 28 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-15 01:55 | yes | 0 | 22 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-15 04:08 | yes | 0 | 23 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-15 03:32 | no | 0 | 12 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-15 05:05 | yes | 15 | 13 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-15 04:40 | yes | 3 | 14 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-14 23:06 | yes | 13 | 27 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-15 02:58 | yes | 18 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-15 01:42 | yes | 0 | 9 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-15 03:45 | yes | 0 | 8 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-09-15 00:54 | yes | 0 | 70 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-15 04:03 | yes | 0 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-15 04:09 | yes | 0 | 24 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-14 23:41 | yes | 0 | 39 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-15 01:19 | yes | 0 | 43 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-15 01:52 | yes | 0 | 11 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-15 04:58 | yes | 18 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-15 01:14 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-15 01:58 | yes | 29 | 33 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-15 04:41 | yes | 20 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-15 02:15 | yes | 0 | 20 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-15 03:18 | yes | 0 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-15 00:28 | yes | 0 | 27 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-15 00:29 | yes | 0 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-15 02:12 | yes | 0 | 26 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-15 01:42 | yes | 0 | 62 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-15 04:52 | yes | 0 | 69 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-15 03:32 | yes | 0 | 81 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-15 00:49 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-15 00:30 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-14 22:55 | no | 0 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-15 00:55 | yes | 20 | 11 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-15 00:29 | yes | 0 | 10 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-15 01:32 | no | 0 | 10 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-15 02:52 | yes | 0 | 34 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-15 03:20 | yes | 0 | 2 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-15 02:54 | no | 0 | 44 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-15 00:19 | yes | 0 | 43 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-15 01:57 | yes | 0 | 34 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-15 04:15 | yes | 0 | 18 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-09-15 03:30 | yes | 24 | 12 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-09-15 01:16 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-09-14 23:16 | yes | 9 | 27 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-09-15 00:36 | yes | 20 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version) | 2026-09-15 04:51 | yes | 0 | 7 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-09-14 23:20 | yes | 0 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks | 2026-09-15 03:41 | yes | 0 | 40 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-09-14 23:10 | yes | 0 | 2 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-09-15 03:09 | yes | 0 | 54 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-09-15 02:26 | yes | 0 | 60 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-09-14 23:15 | yes | 0 | 58 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-09-15 04:37 | yes | 0 | 20 s |
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