Index › GTM › Products › Hootsuite Insights · November 2026 Edition
2 categories · Named, not ranked

Hootsuite Insights

hootsuite.com ↗

–Too few to rank
4/14Models named it
0First choices
2Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inAudience and consumer insights platforms #166 mid-marketPR and media monitoring #60
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Hootsuite Insights has 4.

Why models recommend it

No positive label carried a quote.

What gives them pause

“What to avoid: Enterprise tools like Brandwatch, Sprinklr, or full Hootsuite/Sprout Social (often $99–200+/month)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Social-only tools that may not cover news, broadcast, and long-form editorial coverage”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Hootsuite Insights, over the 7 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Hootsuite Insights's own site, not checked by Gane.

For
brands
Free plan or trial
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Headquarters
Vancouver, Canada
Founded
2008
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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

The sites and pages the answers that named Hootsuite Insights came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 7 of the 7 answers that named Hootsuite Insights and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

influencermarketinghub.com4
birdeye.com3
brandmentions.com2
g2.com2
accc.gov.au1
aimtechnologies.co1
capterra.com1
cascadedm.com1
cleverx.com1
explodingtopics.com1

Seventeen of the seventeen domain citations in answers naming Hootsuite Insights came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Hootsuite Insights across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000011
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00011
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000