Salesforce Sales Engagement is a sales engagement platform built directly into the Salesforce CRM, so sales teams can run their outreach without leaving the CRM · salesforce.com ↗
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Apollo.io is first at 50%.
Salesloft is first at 37%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Outreach is first at 52%.
“Native sync within Salesforce; engagement and pipeline share the same CRM object layer. Not ideal when you lack admin capacity”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · alternative
“Choose Salesforce Sales Engagement or Groove when Salesforce is the operational system of record.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Salesforce-centric organizations that want reps to work from their CRM”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · alternative
“implementation that can be overwhelming for mid-market companies, with total cost of ownership often exceeding $300/user/month”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“If you are not deeply entrenched in the Salesforce ecosystem, buying their native engagement tool can be a mistake.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Users frequently note complexity and cost... "extremely expensive, overly complicated, and very hard to navigate"”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Trade-off: Often lacks the polished UI and advanced cadence flexibility of best-of-breed tools like Salesloft.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · warning
The products named in the same answers as Salesforce Sales Engagement, over the 48 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 11 | View → | |
| 40 | 18 | View → | |
| 35 | 5 | View → | |
| 30 | 2 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Salesforce Sales Engagement →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
Stated on Salesforce Sales Engagement's own site, not checked by Gane.
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 →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 48 of the 48 answers that named Salesforce Sales Engagement and are not a share of its labels.
124 of the 134 domain citations in answers naming Salesforce Sales Engagement came from a third party's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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 | 1 | 2 |