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impact.com is a partnership management platform from impactful for running affiliate, referral, influencer and other partner programs in one place · impact.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Ranked 66 of 67 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Rewardful is first at 16%.
PartnerStack is first at 56%. 2 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
PartnerStack is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“Global enterprise, multi-program type (affiliate + influencer + B2B partner), strongest tracking/reporting infrastructure”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“For a balance of ease of use and scalability, PartnerStack or Impact.com are top choices.”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“the best through‑channel marketing platform for a limited budget is impact.com”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“the landscape is dominated by two platforms: PartnerStack and impact.com”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Low Trustpilot scores (around 1.2/5 from hundreds of reviews). Common issues include buggy/slow UI, lost commissions”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Very low ratings (1.2/5 on Trustpilot from 184+ reviews). Frequent accusations of non-payment to partners”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Avoid high-end platforms like impact.com, Impartner, ZINFI, or Salesforce Partner Cloud”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“avoid large affiliate networks (like CJ Affiliate, Rakuten, or Impact) right now”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as impact.com, over the 364 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 243 | 65 | Compare → | |
| 76 | 18 | View → | |
| 67 | 6 | View → | |
| 67 | 0 | View → | |
| 65 | 2 | View → | |
| 63 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 61 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 60 | 1 | View → | |
| 55 | 12 | View → | |
| 51 | 1 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of impact.com →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on impact.com's own site, not checked by Gane.
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- brands & publishers
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 334 of the 364 answers that named impact.com and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
638 of the 688 domain citations in answers naming impact.com 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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 11 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 14 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Podcast or video | 387 | 2 | 2026-09-04 | SEO | |
| News or press | 212 | 3 | 2026-08-26 | Tag management, Influencer | |
| Case study | 137 | 3 | 2026-08-19 | ||
| Report or ebook | 119 | 0 | 2026-04-07 | Identity | |
| Conference or event | 75 | 0 | 2025-07-11 | ||
| Comparison | 31 | 11 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Blog | 22 | 0 | 2026-06-09 | Influencer | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 16 | 0 | 2024-10-31 | ||
| Template or tool | 14 | 0 | 2024-08-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 11 | 0 | 2025-04-16 |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page impact.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.