Business phone systems · RankedGrasshopper
Grasshopper is a business banking provider, listed as Grasshopper Bank, built for small businesses · grasshopper.com ↗
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.
Zoom Phone is first at 28%.
RingCentral RingEX is first at 47%.
RingCentral RingEX is first at 57%.
Why models recommend it
“Grasshopper could prove the most cost-effective option for small teams of 5 to 20 employees”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“start with Google Voice or Grasshopper”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Virtual phone system that's easy to set up, but less robust than full UC platforms.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative
“Best for: Solopreneurs and very small businesses wanting a simple virtual number”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“many IT professionals advise avoiding systems like Grasshopper for anything beyond the absolute smallest operation”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Not for growing teams. Complaints focus on feeling outdated, extra/hidden costs, unhelpful customer service”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Ideal for very basic needs like call forwarding, but lacks full VoIP depth.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Grasshopper, over the 29 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 2 | View → | |
| 20 | 7 | View → | |
| 20 | 2 | View → | |
| 18 | 3 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 13 | 3 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 2 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Grasshopper's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- entrepreneurs; small business owners
- Price stated
- Plans start as low as $14/month.
- Starting price
- 14
- Free plan or trial
- Try Grasshopper free for 7 days
- Customers named
- Offshore Relief, Pro Resume, Destination by Design, Northwest Skills
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 25 of the 29 answers that named Grasshopper and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-six of the seventy-six domain citations in answers naming Grasshopper 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 512 | 8 | 2026-09-23 | Business phones | |
| Comparison | 18 | 0 | 2026-05-11 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 14 | 1 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2018-08-18 | ||
| Podcast or video | 2 | 0 | 2019-08-15 | ||
| Case study | 1 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | 0 | 2010-03-22 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | 0 | 2011-05-07 | ||
| News or press | 1 | 0 | 2025-04-21 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23Best ai tools for solopreneurs blog
- 2026-09-18What is openphone key pricing and features information glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-11Shared number for small businesses blog
- 2026-09-085 best virtual phone systems small businesses blog
- 2026-08-03Word of mouth marketing blog
- 2026-07-31How to become a freelancer blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page grasshopper.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.