# Crunchbase: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 34 judge labels across 3 categories by 13 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/vendors/crunchbase

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Market intelligence platforms](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/gtm-data/market-intelligence/index.md) | 6% | 4 | 4% | 24 |
| [Competitive intelligence tools](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/marketing/competitive-intelligence/index.md) | 0% | 15 | 0% | 8 |
| [Data enrichment](https://www.gane.ai/index/gtm/gtm-data/data-enrichment/index.md) | 0% | 35 | 0% | 2 |

## What the models said for it

- "My top recommendation for most limited-budget companies: Start with Crunchbase Pro ($49/month) for company data" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Market intelligence)
- "Crunchbase Pro is the best general-purpose choice" (Perplexity Sonar, Market intelligence)
- "For a tight budget, I'd start with Crunchbase" (GPT-6 Luna, Market intelligence)
- "platforms like Crunchbase, Owler, Feedly, or targeted Google News alerts offer strong value at a fraction of the price" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Market intelligence)

## And against it

- "useful, but the paid tiers may be expensive for smaller teams" (GPT-5.4 mini, Market intelligence)

## 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 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Crunchbase, from 61 of the 83 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- marketintelligencetools.com: 27
- g2.com: 25
- toolradar.com: 23
- prospeo.io: 19
- smarte.pro: 17
- spotsaas.com: 16
- userintuition.ai: 11
- alpha-sense.com: 10
- contify.com: 10
- hginsights.com: 10

### Pages cited

- https://smarte.pro/blog/market-intelligence-tools: 16
- https://toolradar.com/guides/best-market-intelligence-tools: 16
- https://marketintelligencetools.com/reports/competitive-intelligence-pricing: 12
- https://spotsaas.com/list/market-intelligence-software/for-small-business: 12
- https://userintuition.ai/posts/best-market-intelligence-platforms: 11
- https://contify.com/resources/blog/best-market-intelligence-tools: 9
- https://prospeo.io/s/b2b-market-intelligence-tools: 8
- https://toolradar.com/best/market-intelligence: 8

## The company

Crunchbase; https://www.crunchbase.com/; San Francisco, United States; founded 2007. From Wikidata, fetched 2026-09-14.

## What it publishes

Every page crunchbase.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 11975 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 786 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2024-03-11
- case study: 19 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2017-09-05
- webinar or virtual event: 26 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-02-12
- conference or event: 38 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2025-09-02
- report or ebook: 28 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2020-09-21
- comparison: 54 pages, 4 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-17
- template or tool: 5 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2022-05-04
- glossary or explainer: 12 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2022-09-28
- podcast or video: 13 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2020-12-16
- news or press: 8727 pages, 75 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-29
- Recent: 2026-09-29 news or press: Public https://news.crunchbase.com/sections/public
- Recent: 2026-09-29 news or press: Spac https://news.crunchbase.com/sections/public/spac
- Recent: 2026-09-29 news or press: Startups https://news.crunchbase.com/sections/startups
- Recent: 2026-09-29 news or press: Venture https://news.crunchbase.com/sections/venture
- Recent: 2026-09-28 news or press: Early groq ai investor qa venkatachalam axiom https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/early-groq-ai-investor-qa-venkatachalam-axiom
- Recent: 2026-09-28 news or press: Real estate property tech https://news.crunchbase.com/sections/real-estate-property-tech

## Record

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