2 categories · RankedPitchBook
PitchBook is a data and research platform covering private markets, including venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions · pitchbook.com ↗
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Why models recommend it
“Choose PitchBook or CB Insights for startups, funding, private companies, and technology markets.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Specialists in private market data, venture capital, technology trends, and M&A activity.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Private-market deal flow, funds, and investor research: consider PitchBook”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · alternative
“PitchBook is more purpose-built for private capital markets.”GPT-6 Luna · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“world-class products, but they can be a trap for teams with limited budgets or small intelligence teams”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“More expensive than Crunchbase, but offers deeper financial data”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as PitchBook, over the 34 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 12 | View → | |
| 23 | 0 | View → | |
| 22 | 0 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 2 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
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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
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 21 of the 34 answers that named PitchBook and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-nine of the sixty-four domain citations in answers naming PitchBook 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |