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Index Planning and analysis SaaS metrics › Enterprise September 2026 Edition

SaaS metrics and analytics for enterprise buyers

Asked as “SaaS metrics dashboard”, and as “ARR analytics tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 43 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Contested
19% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01ChartMogul19%32%47criticized challenger
02Maxio14%6%17accepted challenger
03ProfitWell Metrics7%46%24criticized challenger
04Looker2%21%29accepted challenger
05Microsoft Power BI2%24%25accepted challenger
06Databox2%13%15accepted challenger
07Tableau2%35%26criticized challenger
08Baremetrics2%43%35criticized challenger
Show the two products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
10Mixpanel0%24%17accepted challenger
09Amplitude0%15%26accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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01ChartMogul19%
02Maxio14%
03ProfitWell Metrics7%
04Looker2%
05Microsoft Power BI2%
06Databox2%
07Tableau2%
08Baremetrics2%
09Amplitude0%
10Mixpanel0%

02What they warned about

One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
ChartMogul
32%
15 of 47 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 7 hard negative
“*Baremetrics, basic out-of-the-box ChartMogul or ProfitWell/Paddle setups.* ... they are built on the assumption that your sales process is simple” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Baremetrics
43%
15 of 35 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 10 hard negative
“The following categories of SaaS metrics tools require extreme caution or should be avoided entirely by large enterprises: ... **Examples:** *Baremetrics, basic out-of-the-box ChartMogul or ProfitWell/Paddle setups.*” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
ProfitWell Metrics
46%
11 of 24 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 6 hard negative
“**Tools to Avoid:** Baremetrics, Basic ProfitWell (Paddle), and early-stage ChartMogul plans.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Tableau
35%
9 of 26 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Avoid for Unpredictability at Scale... Tableau (~$70/creator + $15/viewer) ... explode past 1K users.” Grok 4.1 Fast, budget prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

64 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 1074 links across 393 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

28 answers · 28 citations · 10 models
26 answers · 35 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Baremetrics24 answers · 45 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Databox24 answers · 36 citations · 10 models
14 answers · 38 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Taskade14 answers · 14 citations · 8 models
13 answers · 13 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Maxio11 answers · 19 citations · 7 models
11 answers · 12 citations · 6 models
11 answers · 12 citations · 7 models
11 answers · 11 citations · 8 models
11 answers · 11 citations · 7 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best SaaS metrics dashboard for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which ARR analytics tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade SaaS metrics tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best SaaS metrics dashboard for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a SaaS metrics dashboard. What should we look at?”Negative“Which SaaS metrics tools should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceno first choiceHeldAmplitude, Baremetrics
Four alternativesChartMogul, Gainsight, Maxio, Mixpanel
Yurbi
One alternativeDatabox
against: Microsoft Power BI, Tableau
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniTableau
Four alternativesAmplitude, Looker, Microsoft Power BI, Mixpanel
MaxioChanged
One alternativeChartMogul
Amplitude
Two alternativesMixpanel, PostHog
against: Google Analytics
Klipfolio
Two alternativesLightdash, Metabase
against: Datadog
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashMaxio, Subscript
Ten alternativesAmplitude, BigQuery, ChartMogul, Equals, Fivetran, Microsoft Power BI, Snowflake, Tableau, TrueRev, dbt
against: Baremetrics, ProfitWell Metrics
dbtChanged
Ten alternativesBigQuery, Chargebee, Clari, Databricks, Drivetrain, Looker, Microsoft Power BI, Snowflake, Tableau, Zuora
against: Baremetrics, ChartMogul
Zuora
Seven alternativesAmplitude, ChartMogul, Looker, Maxio, Mixpanel, Pendo, Sigma Computing
ProfitWell Metrics
Five alternativesApache Superset, Baremetrics, ChartMogul, Metabase, Microsoft Power BI
against: Tableau
no first choiceagainst: Baremetrics, Braintree/PayPal Analytics, ChartMogul, Lago, Looker, Metronome, Microsoft Power BI, Orb, ProfitWell / Paddle, Stripe Sigma, Tableau, m3ter
Perplexity SonarFairview
Two alternativesAmplitude, Databox
MaxioChanged
Two alternativesChartMogul, TekStack
ChartMogul
Seven alternativesAmplitude, Baremetrics, Databox, Looker, Microsoft Power BI, Mixpanel, Tableau
against: AppDynamics, Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic, PostHog, ProfitWell / Paddle Metrics
Grafana, Metabase
One alternativeDatabox
against: Baremetrics, ChartMogul
no first choiceagainst: Baremetrics, ChartMogul, ProfitWell Metrics / Paddle-style free tooling
Grok 4.1 FastChartMogul, Fairview
Six alternativesDatabox, Looker, Microsoft Power BI, ScaleXP, Sigma Computing, Tableau
against: Amplitude, Baremetrics, Geckoboard, Mixpanel, ProfitWell Metrics
ChartMogulChanged
Two alternativesClari, Maxio
against: Baremetrics
Amplitude, ChartMogul
Three alternativesBaremetrics, Looker, Mixpanel
against: ProfitWell Metrics
Microsoft Power BI
Four alternativesDataBrain, Metabase, Qlik, Qrvey
against: Baremetrics, ChartMogul, Looker, ProfitWell Metrics, Tableau
no first choiceagainst: Amplitude, Baremetrics, ChartMogul, Google Analytics, Heap, Mixpanel, PostHog, ProfitWell Metrics
Mistral SmallChartMogul, Databox
Two alternativesAmplitude, Baremetrics
ChartMogulChanged
Five alternativesAmplitude, Looker, Salesforce, Snowflake, dbt
ChartMogul
Ten alternativesAmplitude, Baremetrics, Databox, Domo, Klipfolio, Looker, Microsoft Power BI, PostHog, ProfitWell Metrics, Sisense
Baremetrics, ChartMogul
Two alternativesDatabox, Geckoboard
no first choiceagainst: ChartMogul, ProfitWell Metrics
DeepSeek V4 FlashChartMogul
Five alternativesBaremetrics, Looker, Maxio, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau
MosaicChanged
Three alternativesClari, Metronome, m3ter
against: ChartMogul
ChartMogul, Maxio
Five alternativesAmplitude, Baremetrics, Mixpanel, Mosaic, ProfitWell Metrics
Embeddable, Querio, Reveal
Three alternativesGigacatalyst, Looker, ProfitWell Metrics
against: Baremetrics, ChartMogul, Luzmo, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau
no first choiceagainst: Amplitude, Baremetrics, Causal, ChartMogul, Databox, Firstofficer, Geckoboard, Klipfolio, Mixpanel, Pendo, ProfitWell Metrics, Recurly Analytics, RevenueGrid, Stripe's built-in analytics
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceChartMogulChangedChartMogul
Five alternativesAmplitude, Baremetrics, Databox, Microsoft Power BI, ProfitWell Metrics
no first choiceno first choice
Three alternativesKlipfolio, ServiceNow's SaaS Overview Dashboard, Torii
nothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashLooker, Paddle, ProfitWell Metrics
Four alternativesChartMogul, Maxio, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau
ProfitWell MetricsChanged
Three alternativesAnaplan, ChartMogul, Clari
Baremetrics, ChartMogul
Five alternativesGainsight, Looker, Maxio, ProfitWell Metrics, Tableau
Torii
Two alternativesApptio, Ramp
against: Looker, Tableau
no first choiceagainst: Baremetrics, ChartMogul, Databox, Geckoboard, Klipfolio, Maxio, ProfitWell Metrics
Kimi K2Drivetrain
Four alternativesChartMogul, Looker, ProfitWell Metrics, Tableau
MaxioChanged
One alternativeOracle NetSuite
against: ChartMogul, Grid, SaaSGrid, TrueARR
ChartMogul
Six alternativesBaremetrics, ChurnZero, Databricks, Gainsight, ProfitWell Metrics, Snowflake + Cortex
against: Looker
Qrvey, Reveal
Two alternativesBasedash, Microsoft Power BI
against: Looker, Microsoft Power BI, Sisense, Tableau
no first choiceagainst: Alibaba Cloud Quick BI, Amplitude, Baremetrics, ChartMogul, Microsoft Power BI, Mixpanel, ProfitWell Metrics, Tableau
GLM 4.7 FlashXBasedash
Nine alternativesAmplitude, Baremetrics, ChartMogul, Databox, Klipfolio, Looker, Microsoft Power BI, ProfitWell Metrics, Tableau
MaxioChanged
Three alternativesChartMogul, Databox, Zuora
ChartMogul
Eleven alternativesAmplitude, Baremetrics, Basedash, BetterCloud, Databox, Looker, Mixpanel, PostHog, Productiv, ProfitWell Metrics, Zylo
CloudNuro.ai
One alternativeDatadog Cloud Cost Management
no first choiceagainst: Adobe Analytics, Baremetrics, ChartMogul, Excel, Google Analytics, Google Sheets, Looker, Microsoft Power BI, ProfitWell Metrics, Tableau
MiniMax M2.5Maxio
Two alternativesChartMogul, Equals
ChartMogulChanged
Five alternativesARRGuide, Amplitude, Looker, Metreon, TrueARR
ChartMogul
Three alternativesAmplitude, Baremetrics, ProfitWell / Paddle Retain
BetterCloud, Torii
Four alternativesAmplitude, CloudEagle.ai, Fastero, Zylo
no first choiceagainst: Baremetrics, ChartMogul, ProfitWell Metrics
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:54no04 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:56yes36 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:55yes1448 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:25yes206 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:54yes3824 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:56yes54 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:59yes1920 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:57yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:03no028 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:40yes1951 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:05yes2479 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:54yes1349 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:04no05 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:56yes25 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:40yes2026 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:37yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:26yes3317 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:25yes55 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:39yes2824 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:03yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:10no030 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:34yes2232 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:50yes32136 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:06yes1125 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:11yes2713 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:53yes48 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:20yes1558 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:06yes2012 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:22yes3020 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:05yes1216 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:04yes2630 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:41yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:55yes3054 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:07yes2045 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:27yes3066 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:40yes1321 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:35yes3517 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:07yes47 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:17yes2471 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:41yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:00yes4524 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:38yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:44yes2639 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:25yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:14no024 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:31yes2028 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:44yes26120 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:53yes25112 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:45yes2717 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:41no08 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:03yes424 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:53yes2011 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:47yes1913 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:03no08 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:34yes2030 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:58yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:12yes536 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:50yes2534 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:17yes1599 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:57no047 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:06yes2210 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:39yes47 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:53yes356 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:30yes209 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:38yes2119 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:34yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:05yes2936 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:30yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:02yes2352 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:39yes2957 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:42yes2685 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:17yes2282 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
Google BigQuery read as BigQuery
NetSuite read as Oracle NetSuite
PowerBI read as Microsoft Power BI
ProfitWell read as ProfitWell Metrics
ProfitWell (Paddle Metrics) read as ProfitWell Metrics
ProfitWell (Paddle Retain) read as ProfitWell Metrics
ProfitWell (Paddle) read as ProfitWell Metrics
ProfitWell (by Paddle) read as ProfitWell Metrics
ProfitWell (now "Paddle Metrics") read as ProfitWell Metrics
ProfitWell (now part of Paddle) read as ProfitWell Metrics
Qlik Cloud Analytics read as Qlik
Sigma read as Sigma Computing
Unresolved, counted raw
ARRGuide
Adobe Analytics
Alibaba Cloud Quick BI
AppDynamics
Apptio (IBM)
Apptio Cloudability
Braintree/PayPal Analytics
CloudEagle.ai
CloudNuro.ai
Cometly
DataBrain
Datadog Cloud Cost Management
Dynatrace
Embeddable
Fairview/Cobloom
Firstofficer
Gigacatalyst
Lightdash
Luzmo
Metreon
New Relic
Productiv
ProfitWell Metrics / Paddle-style free tooling
Querio
Recurly Analytics
RevenueArc
RevenueGrid
ServiceNow's SaaS Overview Dashboard
Signal AI
Snowflake + Cortex
Snowflake/Snowplow
Stellar Hosted
Stripe's built-in analytics
Yurbi
mParticle
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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