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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Global Sources

8Judge labels

0First choices

7Negative labels

4 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.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Global Sources was named 4 times in Procure-to-pay and 1 other category, where Procurify led with 45%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business74 of 79

under the label threshold

Mid-market84 of 85

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In procure-to-pay · 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 Global Sources 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Procure-to-pay	Spend and procurement	0%	84 of 85	100%	3	under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 45%
Strategic sourcing	Spend and procurement	0%	53 of 127	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Precoro at 17%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Global Sources 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 Global Sources across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Prefer vetted alternatives like Global Sources, SaleHoo, Spocket (US/EU focus), or Shopify Collective for higher trust.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Strategic sourcing · negative 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.

“Be cautious with B2B sourcing marketplaces like Global Sources... Global Sources scores 1.3/5 on Trustpilot with reports of fraud enabling” Grok 4.1 Fast · Procure-to-pay · negative prompt · hard negative

“The platforms to genuinely avoid for safety reasons are the open B2B marketplaces (Global Sources especially” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Procure-to-pay · negative prompt · hard negative

“Very low Trustpilot rating: 1.3/5 stars ... exercising "extreme caution"” Kimi K2 · Procure-to-pay · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Global Sources, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Global Sources was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Alibaba8 of 80Not in the top three

SAP Ariba6 of 80Not in the top three

Coupa4 of 80Not in the top three

DHgate3 of 80Not in the top three

Made-in-China3 of 80Not in the top three

Precoro2 of 81Not in the top three

SaleHoo2 of 81Not in the top three

1688.com2 of 80Not in the top three

AliExpress2 of 80Not in the top three

LinkedIn Recruiter2 of 80Not 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 Global Sources. 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 8 of the 8 answers that named Global Sources and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

trustpilot.com6

linkedin.com5

reddit.com5

globalsources.comYour site4

iacrc.org4

24454788.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net3

ie.trustpilot.com3

mindsprint.com3

procuredesk.com3

salehoo.com3

Thirty-five of the thirty-nine domain citations in answers naming Global Sources came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

trustpilot.com/review/www.globalsources.com6

iacrc.org/fraud-and-corruption/the-most-common-procurement-fraud-schemes-and-their-primary4

trustpilot.com/review/www.ariba.com4

24454788.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/24454788/OM_Guide_6-Common-Procurement-Techn3

globalsources.com/knowledge/what-to-know-about-scams-on-globalsources-com-and-how-to-avoid3

linkedin.com/pulse/b2b-marketplace-fraud-hidden-risks-sourcing-from-alibaba-harilela-lopkc3

mindsprint.com/resources/blogs/b2b-procurement-platform3

procuredesk.com/procurement-fraud3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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