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Databox

96Judge labels
13First choices
6Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
14% in SaaS metrics for small business buyers
Rank 4 of 81 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 4% of its 23 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In saas metrics · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Databox for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
SaaS metrics and analyticsPlanning and analysis10%4 of 814%23accepted challenger
Financial reporting and dashboardsPlanning and analysis0%100 of 13350%2under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Databox yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Databox across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01113
Perplexity Sonar12014
Grok 4.1 Fast02103
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash02002
Llama 4 Maverick10001
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K202204
GLM 4.7 FlashX22004
MiniMax M2.501001

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct17 labels5
Paraphrase5 labels1
Comparative34 labels5not counted in share
Budget-constrained23 labels7
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative13 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative96 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 20 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“The best SaaS metrics dashboard for a company with a limited budget is Databox, which offers a free plan and paid plans starting from $64/month.” Llama 4 Maverick · SaaS metrics · budget prompt · first choice
“the optimal solution is a combination of Databox (as your command center) and ChartMogul (as your revenue engine)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SaaS metrics · direct prompt · first choice
“The Best All-In-One Dashboard: Databox ... Databox is the industry leader for free plans.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · SaaS metrics · budget prompt · first choice
“Databox is the best "budget but still serious" SaaS metrics dashboard” Perplexity Sonar · SaaS metrics · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid trying to build subscription metrics in generic Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards like Looker Studio, Tableau, or Databox” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SaaS metrics · negative prompt · hard negative
“one guide says to skip Databox for those needs” Perplexity Sonar · Financial reporting · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Databox, over the 96 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Databox was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
ChartMogul65 of 9624Not in the top three
Baremetrics52 of 965Not in the top three
ProfitWell Metrics47 of 9620Not in the top three
Looker Studio46 of 9613Not in the top three
Microsoft Power BI39 of 962Not in the top three
Mixpanel34 of 960Not in the top three
Amplitude30 of 960Not in the top three
Geckoboard28 of 961Not in the top three
PostHog28 of 960Not in the top three
Tableau26 of 961Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Databox. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 88 of the 96 answers that named Databox and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

databox.comYour site67
designrevision.com61
getfairview.com42
baremetrics.com32
taskade.com28
saasrise.com27
coefficient.io17
fastero.com17
reddit.com17
thefrontkit.com16

257 of the 324 domain citations in answers naming Databox came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Databox

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Databox; a claim can dispute any of them.
Databox Starter 1
Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Databox's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Databox, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at databox.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.