Professional services automation
Asked as “professional services automation platform”, and as “PSA tool for project billing and utilization”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 52 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
29%
Contested · Kantata 25%
29BigTime25Kantata12Productive35others
29% 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.
The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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Certinia Professional Services Cloud0%17%29accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
Certinia Professional Services Cloud0%17%29accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
For buyers
All twenty-one head-to-head pages: the top seven products, each against each
BigTime vs Teamwork.comBigTime vs AcceloBigTime vs ScoroKantata vs ProductiveKantata vs RocketlaneKantata vs Teamwork.comKantata vs AcceloKantata vs ScoroProductive vs RocketlaneProductive vs Teamwork.comProductive vs AcceloProductive vs ScoroRocketlane vs Teamwork.comRocketlane vs AcceloRocketlane vs ScoroTeamwork.com vs AcceloTeamwork.com vs ScoroAccelo vs Scoro
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
Negative label rate →
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01BigTime29%
BigTime29%02Kantata25%
Kantata25%03Productive12%
Productive12%04Rocketlane6%
Rocketlane6%05Teamwork.com6%
Teamwork.com6%06Accelo4%
Accelo4%07Scoro2%
Scoro2%08Certinia Professional Services Cloud0%
Certinia Professional Services Cloud0%09Autotask0%
10ConnectWise PSA0%
ConnectWise PSA0%What they warned about
Four of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Mistral Small, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-6 Luna and Muse Glimmer 30B 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.
Kantata13%
7 of 52 labels negative · 7 of 14 models
“if your use case is not services-delivery-heavy, because these are positioned as specialized PSA platforms ... may be overbuilt for simpler needs” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt
ConnectWise PSA43%
6 of 14 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“High Caution – Especially for smaller teams or those without a dedicated admin... Who should avoid it: Small-to-mid agencies” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
Autotask PSA
83%
5 of 6 labels negative · 5 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“Platforms with Significant Issues ... **Autotask PSA (now part of Datto)** - **Complex usability:** Users describe confusing menus and lengthy processes” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Certinia Professional Services Cloud17%
5 of 29 labels negative · 5 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“if you are *not* a Salesforce shop, you must avoid it.” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the fourteen in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.
Sites the answers cite
81 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1104 links across 168 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. None of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category.
vendor site · Kantata54 answers · 77 citations · 14 models
vendor site · Scoro47 answers · 55 citations · 14 models
vendor site · BigTime46 answers · 99 citations · 14 models
vendor site · G239 answers · 72 citations · 13 models
vendor site · Guideflow34 answers · 36 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Teamwork.com33 answers · 53 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Rocketlane31 answers · 44 citations · 13 models
vendor site · Accelo23 answers · 28 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Productive23 answers · 24 citations · 11 models
21 answers · 24 citations · 11 models
vendor site · G220 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
20 answers · 20 citations · 10 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.
49 answers · 13 models
45 answers · 13 models
34 answers · 12 models
30 answers · 10 models
21 answers · 10 models
20 answers · 10 models
20 answers · 9 models
20 answers · 10 models
20 answers · 10 models
19 answers · 11 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best professional services automation platform”, “professional services automation platform”, “professional services automation platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
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| BigTime bigtime.net | 29% | 122 | 18,100 | 278 | 30,730 | $2,221 | 30 | |
| Kantata kantata.com Kantata 25%, Kantata OX 2% | 27% | 147 | 3,600 | 50 | 5,770 | $11,592 | 47 | 3 |
| Productive productive.io Productive 12%, Productive.io 2% | 13% | 58 | 60,500 | 1,234,021 | 102,038 | $1,647 | 61 | 3 |
| Rocketlane rocketlane.com | 6% | 53 | 3,600 | 52 | 15,010 | $7,649 | 55 | |
| Teamwork.com teamwork.com | 6% | 35 | 1,900 | 23 | 467,278 | 16 | ||
| Accelo accelo.com | 4% | 63 | 1,300 | 14 | 9,819 | 9 | ||
| Plaky plaky.com | 4% | 8 | ||||||
| Scoro scoro.com | 2% | 101 | 1,300 | 23 | 4,736 | 51 | 1 | |
| Projectworks projectworks.com | 2% | 10 | 320 | 14 | 5,046 | 9 | 8 | |
| Avaza avaza.com | 2% | 18 | 720 | 5 | 3,604 | 18 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 23 sites; 5 of them are among the sites the models cited here (g2.com, kantata.com, productive.io, scoro.com, thedigitalprojectmanager.com). The first result for “best professional services automation platform” is atera.com.
How 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.ShowHide
How 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.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best professional services automation platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which PSA tool for project billing and utilization would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top professional services automation platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best professional services automation platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a professional services automation platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which professional services automation platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5KantataBigTimeChangedRocketlaneProductive, Replicon PSAno first choiceagainst: Accelo, Autotask PSA, BQE CORE, BigTime, Kantata, Scoro, Wrike
Four alternatives
Accelo, BigTime, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, ScoroTwo alternatives
Accelo, ScoroEight alternatives
Accelo, Autotask, BigTime, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, ConnectWise PSA, HaloPSA, Kantata, ScoroOne alternative
Bitrix24GPT-5.4 miniKantataagainst: Autotask, ConnectWise PSABigTimeChangedKantataPaymono first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Certinia Professional Services Cloud, Productive, ScoroTwo alternatives
Certinia Professional Services Cloud, KantataThree alternatives
BigTime, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, WrikeFour alternatives
Atera, Autotask, Rocketlane, SuccessProGemini 3.5 FlashRocketlaneProjectworksChangedagainst: NetSuite OpenAir, Oracleno first choiceAvazano first choiceagainst: Autotask PSA, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, ConnectWise PSA, Kantata, NetSuite SuiteProjects Pro
Three alternatives
Certinia Professional Services Cloud, Kantata, ScoroFive alternatives
BigTime, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, Kantata, NetSuite SuiteProjects Pro, ProductiveNine alternatives
Accelo, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, ConnectWise PSA, Deltek, HaloPSA, Kantata, Productive, Rocketlane, ScoroFour alternatives
Atera, Productive.io, Syncro, Teamwork.comSeven alternatives
Certinia Professional Services Cloud, Deltek, Kantata OX, Kantata SX, NetSuite OpenAir, Planview ChangePoint, SAP Professional Services CloudPerplexity SonarKantataKantataHeldno first choiceProductiveagainst: Rocketlane, Scorono first choiceagainst: Autotask, Avaza, BQE CORE, BigTime, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, ConnectWise, Kantata, Replicon, Rocketlane, Scoro, Wrike
Four alternatives
Accelo, Birdview, Rocketlane, RuddrTwo alternatives
BigTime, ProductiveTwo alternatives
ClickUp, RuddrGrok 4.1 FastBigTimeBigTimeHeldagainst: KantataAutotaskProductiveagainst: Atera, ConnectWiseno first choiceagainst: Certinia PS Cloud, ConnectWise Manage, PSA Restoration Contractor, Scoro
Four alternatives
Accelo, Autotask, Kantata, ScoroTwo alternatives
Accelo, ScoroSeven alternatives
Accelo, BigTime, ConnectWise Manage, Deltek Vantagepoint, Kantata, Productive, ScoroThree alternatives
BigTime, PSOhub, ScoroMistral SmallKantata, RocketlaneAccelo, BigTimeChangedKantataagainst: Monday.com, WrikeBigTime, Plakyno first choicenothing named
One alternative
SAP S/4HANAOne alternative
ProductiveFive alternatives
Accelo, Autotask, Avaza, BigTime, ProjectworksTwo alternatives
HaloPSA, SuperOpsDeepSeek V4 FlashBigTimeBigTimeHeldCertinia Professional Services Cloud, KantataProductive, Teamwork.comagainst: ITFlowno first choiceagainst: Certinia Professional Services Cloud, NetSuite OpenAiragainst: Autotask, ConnectWise PSA, Deltek Vantagepoint, Kantata PSA, Rocketlane
Four alternatives
Accelo, Certinia PS Cloud, Kantata, ScoroThree alternatives
Accelo, Kantata, ProductiveThree alternatives
Accelo, Rocketlane, ScoroThree alternatives
BigTime, FunctionFox, ScoroThree alternatives
BigTime, Kantata, RocketlaneLlama 4 MaverickKantataKantataHeldno first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
One alternative
ScoroThree alternatives
BQE CORE, Productive, Upland PSAQwen 3.7 FlashKantataBigTimeChangedagainst: NetSuite, Salesforce Professional ServicesKantataProductiveno first choiceagainst: Oracle NetSuite, SAP S/4HANAagainst: Asana, Deltek, Jira, Kantata, Oracle NetSuite PSA, Trello, Workday PSA
Two alternatives
Accelo, ScoroTwo alternatives
Akana, KantataFour alternatives
ConnectWise PSA, Planview Changepoint/AdaptiveWork, Productive, ScoroThree alternatives
ClickUp, Plaky, ScoroKimi K2BigTime, KantataBigTimeChangedKantataProductive.ioagainst: Zoho ProjectsKantata, Scoroagainst: Autotask PSA, ConnectWise PSA, PSA Restoration Contractor
Three alternatives
Accelo, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, ScoroTwo alternatives
Kantata, ScoroFive alternatives
BigTime, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, ConnectWise PSA, Deltek Vantagepoint, HaloPSATwo alternatives
BigTime, ScoroOne alternative
BigTimeGLM 4.7 FlashXKantataRocketlaneChangedScoroProductive, Teamwork.comagainst: Certinia Professional Services Cloud, Kantatano first choiceagainst: Autotask PSA, Deltek Vantagepoint
Two alternatives
BigTime, ScoroThree alternatives
BigTime, Kantata, ScoroFive alternatives
Accelo, BigTime, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, Kantata, Teamwork.comFour alternatives
Alga PSA, BigTime, ITFlow, ScoroMiniMax M2.5KantataAccelo, BigTimeChangedno first choicePlakyno first choiceagainst: Deltek Maconomy, FieldAware
Four alternatives
Avaza, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, Rocketlane, Upland PSATwo alternatives
BQE CORE, ProductiveOne alternative
ProductiveGPT-6 LunaKantata OXBigTimeChangedKantataProductive Essentialno first choiceagainst: Autotask, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, ConnectWise PSA, Kantata
Three alternatives
BigTime, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, RocketlaneTwo alternatives
Certinia Professional Services Cloud, Kantata OXSix alternatives
BigTime, Certinia Professional Services Cloud, ConnectWise PSA, Deltek Vantagepoint, Oracle NetSuite SuiteProjects Pro, Workday PSAOne alternative
Teamwork.comMuse Glimmer 30BKantataBigTimeChangedno first choiceBigTime, Teamwork.comno first choiceagainst: Autotask PSA, Cmap, ConnectWise PSA, HaloPSA, Salesforce Professional Services Cloud / Certinia PS Cloud, Scoro, VOGSY, Workamajig
Three alternatives
Birdview, Deltek Vantagepoint, ScoroOne alternative
Upland PSAOne alternative
ScoroBold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The 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
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
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| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:17 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:02 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 22:49 | yes | 8 | 23 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 22:19 | yes | 17 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 22:33 | yes | 23 | 14 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 22:50 | yes | 12 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 22:31 | yes | 22 | 31 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 23:10 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:13 | yes | 5 | 20 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 22:37 | yes | 14 | 30 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 23:10 | yes | 23 | 41 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:39 | yes | 11 | 20 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:46 | yes | 4 | 16 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 22:23 | yes | 11 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:53 | yes | 9 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 22:39 | yes | 3 | 7 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:02 | yes | 17 | 25 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 22:45 | yes | 18 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 23:15 | yes | 20 | 7 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:13 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 22:36 | yes | 19 | 25 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 22:13 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:52 | yes | 5 | 16 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:23 | yes | 11 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:36 | yes | 24 | 28 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 23:21 | yes | 8 | 23 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:39 | yes | 2 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 22:31 | yes | 21 | 21 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:35 | yes | 9 | 9 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 22:21 | yes | 5 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 22:59 | yes | 16 | 29 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:12 | yes | 18 | 5 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 23:12 | yes | 21 | 9 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 22:32 | yes | 12 | 12 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 22:29 | yes | 23 | 29 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 22:30 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:03 | yes | 9 | 23 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:01 | yes | 19 | 28 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:49 | yes | 24 | 55 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:54 | yes | 16 | 24 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:55 | yes | 8 | 30 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:06 | yes | 15 | 29 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:48 | yes | 16 | 8 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:18 | yes | 2 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 22:40 | yes | 30 | 25 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 22:27 | yes | 17 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 22:16 | yes | 22 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:03 | yes | 15 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 22:49 | yes | 21 | 26 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 22:23 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:45 | yes | 8 | 25 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 22:35 | yes | 20 | 21 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:51 | yes | 23 | 49 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:59 | yes | 18 | 27 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 23:18 | yes | 2 | 20 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:12 | yes | 15 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:25 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:05 | yes | 2 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:11 | yes | 9 | 25 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 22:35 | yes | 18 | 5 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 22:14 | yes | 16 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 22:40 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 23:08 | yes | 21 | 38 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 23:00 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:22 | no | 0 | 27 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:01 | yes | 23 | 25 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 23:28 | yes | 20 | 191 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:46 | yes | 7 | 22 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:35 | yes | 4 | 19 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 22:38 | yes | 14 | 17 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:58 | yes | 9 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 23:08 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 22:44 | yes | 27 | 27 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-04 23:12 | yes | 18 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 23:23 | yes | 22 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 22:49 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-04 22:39 | yes | 25 | 53 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 22:15 | yes | 7 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:21 | yes | 19 | 50 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:16 | yes | 24 | 26 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:40 | yes | 23 | 23 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:23 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:52 | yes | 4 | 18 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 22:55 | yes | 24 | 33 s |
Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
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Category-scoped readings
Certinia read as Certinia Professional Services Cloud
Certinia (formerly FinancialForce PSA) read as Certinia Professional Services Cloud
Certinia (formerly FinancialForce) read as Certinia Professional Services Cloud
Planview read as Planview ChangePoint
SAP read as SAP S/4HANA
Workday read as Workday PSA
Workday Professional Services Automation read as Workday PSA
Unresolved, counted raw
Adaptive Workspace
Ajera
Akana
Alga PSA
Clarizen
Cmap
ConnectWise Asio Platform
FieldAware
Functionpoint
Keka
Oracle NetSuite PSA
Oracle NetSuite SuiteProjects / SuiteProjects Pro
Oracle NetSuite SuiteProjects Pro
Parallax
Productive Essential
Project Insight
Project-open
Raccoon
Replicon PSA
Salesforce Professional Services
Salesforce Professional Services Cloud / Certinia PS Cloud
SuccessPro
Unit4 PSA
Workamajig
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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