Upfirst
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.
Retell AI is first at 15%.
CloudTalk is first at 25%.
No model named it for this buyer.
Why models recommend it
“Best for most small service businesses, starting at $24.95/month... Upfirst and Dialzara are especially strong for tight budgets.”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Start with Quo Sona (free tier) or Upfirst ($24.95/mo)”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Top Pick for Most Small Businesses: Upfirst”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Monthly budget | Upfirst ($24.95/mo) | Predictable fixed cost”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Upfirst, over the 8 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 2 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 2 | View → | |
| 2 | 1 | View → |
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 8 of the 8 answers that named Upfirst and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty-three of the forty-one domain citations in answers naming Upfirst 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |