Microsoft 365 is a Microsoft product used for email and team collaboration through Outlook and Teams, and as a place where teams keep their knowledge · microsoft.com ↗
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Microsoft 365 Admin Center is first at 26%.
AdminDroid 365 is first at 22%. 2 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
CoreView ONE is first at 37%.
“Microsoft Defender for Business or Microsoft 365 Business Premium offer the best balance of AI-powered protection, affordability, and ease of use”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Practical starter stack for limited budget: Microsoft 365 Business Premium / Defender for Business for endpoint, identity and email protection.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“CrowdStrike Falcon Go and Microsoft 365 Business Premium are the top choices for companies with limited budgets”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“The Best "All-In-One" Value: Microsoft 365 Business Premium ... this is arguably the best financial move.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Many organizations rely on email platforms such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace that offer basic retention features, but they often lack advanced compliance workflows”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“native Microsoft 365 email security leaves critical security gaps that cybercriminals will readily exploit”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft 365, over the 137 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 2 | View → | |
| 10 | 4 | View → | |
| 9 | 3 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 5 | View → | |
| 7 | 2 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
Stated on Microsoft 365'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 123 of the 137 answers that named Microsoft 365 and are not a share of its labels.
148 of the 271 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft 365 came from a third party's page. Twenty-three were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |