2 categories · RankedCB Insights
CB Insights is a market intelligence and competitive intelligence platform · cbinsights.com ↗
Gane, the publisher, sells software in Competitive intel, where this product is measured. It is measured there by the same method as every other product. How the conflict is handled.
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Apollo.io is first at 39%.
Apollo.io is first at 22%.
AlphaSense is first at 25%.
Why models recommend it
“CB Insights is the strongest fit for strategy teams mapping private companies, screening vendors, and comparing businesses”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Prioritize AlphaSense, PitchBook, or CB Insights for deep financial and private market visibility.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Choose PitchBook or CB Insights for startups, funding, private companies, and technology markets.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Predictive analytics on emerging technology and private company data”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid Enterprise Platforms: Tools like AlphaSense, CB Insights, Crayon, or ZoomInfo”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“world-class products, but they can be a trap for teams with limited budgets or small intelligence teams”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as CB Insights, over the 48 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 12 | View → | |
| 31 | 3 | View → | |
| 30 | 1 | View → | |
| 27 | 2 | View → | |
| 23 | 4 | View → | |
| 23 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 1 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of CB Insights →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
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 →Sources returned with these answers
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 37 of the 48 answers that named CB Insights and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-nine of the 109 domain citations in answers naming CB Insights came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | 87,605 | 1 | 2026-08-17 | ABM, SEO | |
| Report or ebook | 211 | 35 | 2026-10-02 | ||
| Conference or event | 56 | 0 | 2026-03-17 | ||
| Blog | 38 | 0 | 2026-06-24 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 38 | 4 | 2026-09-14 | ||
| Case study | 2 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | 0 | 2021-11-10 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-02Ceo interview andromeda surgical report or ebook
- 2026-10-02Executive interview quantum xchange report or ebook
- 2026-10-02Executive interview remote sense report or ebook
- 2026-10-01Newsletter october 1 2026 report or ebook
- 2026-10-01Coding agent investor overlap report or ebook
- 2026-10-01Executive interview ideaforge report or ebook
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cbinsights.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name ABM (18); 0 name its categories the models place it in. 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 October 5, 2026.