6 categories · RankedFathom
Strongest at small business. Ranked 84 of 85 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Fireflies.ai is first at 41%.
Avoma is first at 29%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Gong is first at 72%.
Why models recommend it
“alternatives like Plausible Analytics, Fathom, and Matomo have driven significant adoption”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · first choice
“Fathom is probably the best overall choice for most small teams”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best overall for most limited-budget teams: Fathom Team plan”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Fathom – Best Overall Value & Generous Tier Capabilities”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“generally well-liked, but there are repeated user complaints about joining/recording behavior and at least one serious privacy complaint”GPT-5.4 mini · Negative question · warning
“Free or low-cost AI-heavy tools (e.g., Fireflies.ai, Fathom, or similar meeting bots): ... be wary of default data sharing”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Fathom, for example, has a five-call-per-month summary cap on its free tier.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Inaccurate transcripts, recording issues, call attribution problems”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Fathom, over the 192 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | 27 | Compare → | |
| 99 | 26 | Compare → | |
| 97 | 15 | Compare → | |
| 68 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 50 | 11 | View → | |
| 45 | 5 | View → | |
| 38 | 2 | View → | |
| 36 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 36 | 0 | View → | |
| 34 | 4 | View → |
What the models named instead of Fathom →
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 169 of the 192 answers that named Fathom and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
387 of the 421 domain citations in answers naming Fathom came from a third party's page. Thirty-four were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | 9 | undated | |||
| Case study | 3 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 3 | 2026-09-04 | ||
| Blog | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-04Team productivity software glossary or explainer
- 2026-08-20Meeting minutes glossary or explainer
- 2026-07-17Bot free note taker glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page fathom.ai 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. Read October 5, 2026.