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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Sprout Social

Sprout Social is a social media management tool from Sprout, built for social media professionals, small teams, and organizations running large-scale social operations · sproutsocial.com ↗

–Too few to rank
4/14Models named it
0First choices
2Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inEmployee engagement surveys #72 mid-marketWorkforce scheduling #84
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Sprout Social has 2.

Why models recommend it

No positive label carried a quote.

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Sprout Social, over the 4 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Sprout Social's own site, not checked by Gane.

For
social media professionals, small teams, teams handling a lot of profiles with high engagement, cross-functional teams, and organizations with large-scale social media operations
Price stated
Standard, Professional, Advanced
Starting price
79.00
Free plan or trial
Try free for 30 days
Integrations
2
Certifications
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, PCI DSS
Hosting
United States
Customers named
ScottsMiracle-Gro, Kraft Heinz, Jollibee, Vodafone, Bosch, Wipro, DHL, Glassdoor
Also from Sprout
Sprout, Sprout at Work
Visit sproutsocial.com ↗

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

The sites and pages the answers that named Sprout Social came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 4 of the 4 answers that named Sprout Social and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

buffer.com3
birdeye.com2
emailtooltester.com2
reddit.com2
airship.com1
appointment.com1
au.trustpilot.com1
bearstarmarketing.com1
bitdefender.com1
blog.ffbf.com1

Fifteen of the fifteen domain citations in answers naming Sprout Social came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Sprout Social across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00101
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000101
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000