3 categories · RankedCrunchbase
Crunchbase is a company intelligence platform that provides information on private company funding rounds, acquisitions, investors, leadership changes and growth signals · crunchbase.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%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
AlphaSense is first at 25%.
Why models recommend it
“My top recommendation for most limited-budget companies: Start with Crunchbase Pro ($49/month) for company data”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Crunchbase Pro is the best general-purpose choice”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For a tight budget, I'd start with Crunchbase”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“platforms like Crunchbase, Owler, Feedly, or targeted Google News alerts offer strong value at a fraction of the price”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“useful, but the paid tiers may be expensive for smaller teams”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Crunchbase, over the 83 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 45 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 39 | 17 | Compare → | |
| 37 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 37 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 34 | 4 | View → | |
| 32 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 22 | 1 | View → | |
| 20 | 3 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Crunchbase →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Crunchbase's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Founded
- 2007
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 61 of the 83 answers that named Crunchbase and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
168 of the 168 domain citations in answers naming Crunchbase 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 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 8,727 | 75 | 2026-09-29 | CRM, Customer success | |
| Blog | 786 | 0 | 2024-03-11 | SEO, ABM | |
| Comparison | 54 | 4 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Conference or event | 38 | 0 | 2025-09-02 | ||
| Report or ebook | 28 | 0 | 2020-09-21 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 26 | 0 | 2026-02-12 | ||
| Case study | 19 | 0 | 2017-09-05 | ||
| Podcast or video | 13 | 0 | 2020-12-16 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 12 | 0 | 2022-09-28 | ||
| Template or tool | 5 | 0 | 2022-05-04 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Public news or press
- 2026-09-29Spac news or press
- 2026-09-29Startups news or press
- 2026-09-29Venture news or press
- 2026-09-28Early groq ai investor qa venkatachalam axiom news or press
- 2026-09-28Real estate property tech news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page crunchbase.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. 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 September 29, 2026.