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Index Vendors › Ivalua · September 2026 Edition
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Ivalua

208Judge labels
13First choices
35Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
9% in Procure-to-pay for enterprise buyers
Rank 8 of 127 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 18% of its 11 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In strategic sourcing · 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 Ivalua 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
Strategic sourcingSpend and procurement4%8 of 12718%11accepted challenger
Supplier managementSpend and procurement0%22 of 8026%19criticized challenger
Procure-to-paySpend and procurement0%17 of 8521%14accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Ivalua 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 Ivalua across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501203
GPT-5.4 mini02002
Gemini 3.5 Flash01113
Perplexity Sonar00314
Grok 4.1 Fast02136
Mistral Small11204
DeepSeek V4 Flash12126
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash01102
Kimi K201315
GLM 4.7 FlashX00123
MiniMax M2.500404

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
Direct40 labels1
Paraphrase26 labels3
Comparative58 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained32 labels6
Scale-constrained23 labels3
Negative29 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative208 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 15 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.

“It is considered the top choice for mid-market and enterprise organizations due to its comprehensive features and flexibility.” Mistral Small · Strategic sourcing · direct prompt · first choice
“shortlist against Coupa, Jaggaer, GEP SMART, and Ivalua” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Strategic sourcing · scale prompt · first choice
“Choose Ivalua or JAGGAER if you need advanced source-to-pay flexibility and sourcing complexity.” GPT-5.4 mini · Procure-to-pay · comparative prompt · alternative
“stronger full-suite procurement platforms that tend to fit more complex organizations” GPT-5.4 mini · Strategic sourcing · 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.

“avoid heavy enterprise suites like SAP Ariba, Coupa, and Ivalua” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Procure-to-pay · negative prompt · hard negative
“The same caution applies to Coupa and Ivalua at the enterprise level \u2014 powerful but clunky, expensive, complex implementations” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Procure-to-pay · negative prompt · soft negative
“Often dinged for "enterprise-scale complexity," deteriorating supplier onboarding, UX friction, and long implementation” Grok 4.1 Fast · Supplier management · negative prompt · soft negative
“full enterprise suites may be overkill unless you're already heavily invested in that ecosystem” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Strategic sourcing · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Ivalua, over the 208 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ivalua was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Coupa200 of 20866Not in the top three
SAP Ariba195 of 20850Not in the top three
Jaggaer122 of 2083Not in the top three
GEP SMART107 of 2084Not in the top three
Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement58 of 2080Not in the top three
Precoro47 of 20815Not in the top three
Zycus43 of 2080Not in the top three
Procurify35 of 2089Not in the top three
Zip21 of 2080Not in the top three
Tradogram20 of 2084Not 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 Ivalua. 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 179 of the 208 answers that named Ivalua and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com87
g2.com62
mindsprint.com58
learn.g2.com57
worldmetrics.org57
procurementaiagents.com46
softwareconnect.com46
spendflo.com44
ivalua.comYour site43
guideflow.com42

499 of the 542 domain citations in answers naming Ivalua came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 ivalua.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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