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Index Vendors › Gatekeeper · September 2026 Edition
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Gatekeeper

53Judge labels
5First choices
14Negative 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
6% in Supplier management for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 80 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 19 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In supplier management · 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 Gatekeeper 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
Supplier managementSpend and procurement6%3 of 8011%19accepted challenger
Procure-to-paySpend and procurement0%49 of 850%1under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Gatekeeper 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 Gatekeeper across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510102
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash02002
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.1 Fast02013
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash02002
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash11002
Kimi K211002
GLM 4.7 FlashX01012
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
Direct15 labels1
Paraphrase9 labels2
Comparative12 labelsNone
Budget-constrained5 labels2
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative9 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative53 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 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.

“Gatekeeper has emerged as the industry standard for organisations that demand a unified, risk-first approach to supplier management” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Supplier management · direct prompt · first choice
“Start with Gatekeeper if vendor contracts, compliance, and governance are central to your needs” Kimi K2 · Supplier management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“The Best All-Rounder: Gatekeeper ... this is the strongest choice for the mid-market.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Supplier management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Gatekeeper is the better fit for mid-market teams managing contracts, renewals, and vendor lifecycle” Perplexity Sonar · Supplier management · direct prompt · alternative

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.

“Smaller/mid-market alternatives like Gatekeeper (contract-focused, ~$875/mo) ... exist but lack the full SRM depth.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Supplier management · comparative prompt · soft negative
“~$1,245/month | Contract lifecycle management | Mid-market businesses needing contract management” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Supplier management · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Gatekeeper, over the 53 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Gatekeeper was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Coupa44 of 533Not in the top three
SAP Ariba38 of 535Not in the top three
Ivalua20 of 531Not in the top three
Tradogram12 of 533Not in the top three
Jaggaer12 of 530Not in the top three
Kodiak Hub12 of 530Not in the top three
GEP SMART10 of 530Not in the top three
Zapro AI8 of 531Not 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 Gatekeeper. 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 45 of the 53 answers that named Gatekeeper and are not a share of its labels.

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