2 categories · RankedPopl
Strongest at small business. Ranked 18 of 81 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Blinq is first at 22%.
Blinq is first at 20%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
iCapture is first at 29%.
Why models recommend it
“B2Brain and Popl are currently the top two recommendations for different use cases.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“Choose Popl or Blinq for a flexible, exhibitor-owned tool that works across shows.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · first choice
“Fast contact exchange + digital business card | Popl”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · first choice
“Blinq or Popl, which are often highlighted for event-based lead capture, though pricing is typically less transparent”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Popl if you need reliable, predictable performance at a low cost (pricing and crashing complaints are widespread).”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Users frequently complain about high costs and app freezing/crashing during setup.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Popl reads the printed information on the badge and enriches it using trusted data sources... enrich with verified business email and phone when available”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Review summaries describe reported reliability and UX issues, so test scanning and CRM write-back extensively before deployment.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Popl, over the 122 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 94 | 15 | View → | |
| 75 | 7 | View → | |
| 74 | 4 | View → | |
| 56 | 6 | View → | |
| 49 | 14 | View → | |
| 42 | 12 | View → | |
| 41 | 1 | View → | |
| 38 | 5 | View → | |
| 23 | 6 | View → | |
| 23 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Popl →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
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 121 of the 122 answers that named Popl and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
434 of the 467 domain citations in answers naming Popl 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 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |