# Revenue intelligence and forecasting: what AI models recommend, September 2026

Gane Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "revenue intelligence and forecasting platform" and as "sales forecasting and pipeline analytics tool", six framings each, to six frontier models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B software company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/revenue-intelligence-and-forecasting/2026-09-expanded

This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 9, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/sales/revenue-intelligence-and-forecasting/index.md

**Standing:** Clari Copilot leads with 23% of first choices; verdict contested. 30 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Clari Copilot](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/clari-copilot/index.md) | 23% | 37% | 30 |
| 2 | [Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/gong-revenue-intelligence-platform/index.md) | 13% | 28% | 29 |
| 3 | [BoostUp](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/boostup/index.md) | 13% | 0% | 13 |
| 4 | [Avoma](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/avoma/index.md) | 10% | 0% | 12 |
| 5 | [Salesloft](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/salesloft/index.md) | 7% | 27% | 15 |
| 8 | [HubSpot Sales Hub](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/hubspot-sales-hub/index.md) | 3% | 0% | 16 |
| 9 | [Salesforce Revenue Intelligence](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/salesforce-revenue-intelligence/index.md) | 3% | 7% | 15 |
| 10 | [Aviso](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/aviso/index.md) | 3% | 8% | 13 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 48 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Opus 5: BoostUp; alternatives Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform
- Claude Opus 4.8: Aviso, BoostUp; alternatives Clari Copilot, Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform
- GPT-6 Astra: Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform; alternatives Avoma, Clari Forecast
- GPT-5.6 Sol: Gong Forecast; alternatives Clari Copilot, Salesforce Revenue Intelligence, Salesloft
- Gemini 3.1 Pro: Avoma; alternatives BoostUp, Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform, HubSpot Sales Hub, Salesforce Revenue Intelligence
- Perplexity Sonar Pro: Clari Copilot; alternatives 6sense, Avoma, Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform

## Sources the answers cite

32 of 36 answers came back with a source list, from 6 of 6 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- oliv.ai: 16 answers, 34 citations
- getmaxiq.com: 15 answers, 20 citations
- salesmotion.io: 15 answers, 15 citations
- pipeline.zoominfo.com: 13 answers, 22 citations
- forecastio.ai: 12 answers, 16 citations
- gong.io: 11 answers, 17 citations
- goairspeed.com: 10 answers, 10 citations
- clari.com: 9 answers, 13 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://salesmotion.io/blog/revenue-intelligence-platform-guide (15 answers)
- https://oliv.ai/blog/best-revenue-intelligence-software-platforms (13 answers)
- https://getmaxiq.com/blog/best-revenue-intelligence-platforms (10 answers)
- https://goairspeed.com/academy/alternatives/best-revenue-intelligence-platforms (9 answers)
- https://tellius.com/resources/blog/best-revenue-intelligence-platforms-in-2026-clari-gong-tellius-7-more-compared (9 answers)
- https://cirrusinsight.com/blog/clari-vs-gong (7 answers)
- https://forecastio.ai/blog/best-revenue-intelligence-platforms (7 answers)
- https://pipeline.zoominfo.com/sales/revenue-intelligence-tools (7 answers)
- https://salesloft.com/clari-salesloft-merger (7 answers)
- https://zapier.com/blog/revenue-intelligence-platform (7 answers)

## Warned against

- Clari Copilot: 11 of 30 labels negative. "you should rule out enterprise giants like Clari, Gong, and People.ai" (Gemini 3.1 Pro, budget prompt)
- Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform: 8 of 29 labels negative. "you should rule out enterprise giants like Clari, Gong, and People.ai" (Gemini 3.1 Pro, budget prompt)
- Salesloft: 4 of 15 labels negative. "attackers (tracked as UNC6395) stole OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift integration... Salesloft was criticized for initially understating the scope" (Claude Opus 5, negative prompt)
- Chorus by ZoomInfo: 4 of 8 labels negative. "If you strictly want revenue/conversation intelligence and *do not* need ZoomInfo’s B2B contact database or intent signals, you should likely avoid this route." (Gemini 3.1 Pro, negative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, September 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/gtm.