12 categories · RankedLinkedIn Sales Navigator
LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a sales intelligence product from LinkedIn used for prospect and account research and for outreach · linkedin.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.
Kompyte is first at 37%.
Kompyte is first at 40%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Crayon is first at 54%.
Why models recommend it
“Tools like ZoomInfo, Clearbit (now part of HubSpot), Apollo.io, or LinkedIn Sales Navigator are widely used and vetted.”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · alternative
“Other affordable options include LinkedIn Sales Navigator, which unlocks personnel and account-level signals for under $1,000 annually”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Optional add-on: LinkedIn Sales Navigator ($79.99/month) if your competitive intelligence is sales-focused”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“It's not a full contact-data database: pair it with a provider if you need work emails or direct dials.”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid heavy enterprise tools like Outreach, Salesloft, or LinkedIn Sales Navigator add-ons”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Watch out for: Requires a LinkedIn ecosystem to get full value; limited usefulness for B2C or D2D teams; no offline mode”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“I'd usually treat it as a complement to a contact-data provider, not a replacement for one.”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as LinkedIn Sales Navigator, over the 177 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 124 | 51 | View → | |
| 66 | 29 | View → | |
| 63 | 2 | View → | |
| 46 | 2 | View → | |
| 43 | 0 | View → | |
| 36 | 19 | View → | |
| 36 | 5 | View → | |
| 31 | 2 | View → | |
| 31 | 2 | View → | |
| 30 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of LinkedIn Sales Navigator →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on LinkedIn Sales Navigator's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Headquarters
- Sunnyvale, United States
- Founded
- 2002
- Also from LinkedIn
- LinkedIn Accelerate, LinkedIn Ads + Sales Navigator, LinkedIn Ads Manager, LinkedIn Advertising, LinkedIn Analytics, LinkedIn Audience Network and 18 more
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 147 of the 177 answers that named LinkedIn Sales Navigator and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
290 of the 290 domain citations in answers naming LinkedIn Sales Navigator 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 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |