3 categories · RankedLumen
Gane, the publisher, sells software in Competitive intel and AI visibility, where this product is measured. It is measured there by the same method as every other product. How the conflict is handled.
Why models recommend it
“Brandwatch/Talkwalker for deep social/AI consumer intelligence and crisis detection”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · alternative
“Powerful for large teams focused on social chatter and reputation.”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · alternative
“For crisis and reputation risk: Consider Talkwalker/Lumen”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Global social listening, trend detection and brand monitoring”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Avoid enterprise options like Meltwater, Talkwalker/Lumen, or full Profound”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Lumen, over the 20 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 7 | View → | |
| 11 | 5 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 4 | View → | |
| 6 | 4 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Lumen's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- business
- Price stated
- Protect your business for less with limited-time pricing on DDoS Hyper®. Save 20% on a monthly contract or 30% on an annual contract (including no installation fee).*
- Starting price
- $3,190 per month
- Customers named
- Intelsat, Micro Center, Hanmi Bank, Arctic Glacier, New York Yankees, American Family Care, Prometheus Hyperscale, BlackStar Group
- Headquarters
- Monroe, United States
- Founded
- 1930
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 19 of the 20 answers that named Lumen and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-four of the sixty-four domain citations in answers naming Lumen 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 391 | 4 | 2026-09-15 | ||
| Case study | 311 | 2 | 2026-09-21 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 85 | 0 | 2026-05-27 | ||
| News or press | 43 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 19 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 17 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 14 | 0 | 2023-06-19 | ||
| Conference or event | 8 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 5 | 0 | 2024-07-01 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-21Skyway studios case study
- 2026-09-15Daring diaries on negotiating with pirates blog
- 2026-09-01Daring diaries on being left for dead blog
- 2026-08-17Daring diaries on making pigs fly blog
- 2026-08-11Daring diaries introduction blog
- 2026-07-14New york yankees case study
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page lumen.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.