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1 category · Named, not ranked

Mantle

22Judge labels

7First choices

2Negative labels

8 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Mantle was named 7 times in Cap table management, where Carta led with 44%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business6 of 33

under the label threshold

Mid-market9 of 41

under the label threshold

Enterprise6 of 39

under the label threshold

In cap table 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 Mantle 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
Cap table management	Equity and corporate	2%	9 of 41	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Carta at 44%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	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

Direct3 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative5 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained10 labels6

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 8 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.

“Mantle (Best Overall for Flat-Rate & Unlimited Stakeholders)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cap table management · budget prompt · first choice

“Mantle or Qapita are strong choices: free plans, flat‑rate pricing, and AI‑assisted workflows.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cap table management · comparative prompt · alternative

“Mantle and Cake Equity provide excellent value with low-cost paid plans for growing companies” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Cap table management · budget prompt · alternative

“The modern, AI-native challenger... Flat-rate pricing with unlimited stakeholders” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cap table management · comparative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Mantle, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Mantle was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Carta21 of 224Not in the top three

Pulley18 of 224Not in the top three

Cake Equity16 of 223Not in the top three

Eqvista14 of 221Not in the top three

Ledgy12 of 220Not in the top three

Qapita9 of 221Not in the top three

Fidelity Private Shares7 of 220Not in the top three

Shareworks6 of 221Not in the top three

Morgan Stanley at Work3 of 221Not in the top three

J.P. Morgan Workplace Solutions3 of 220Not 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 Mantle. 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 13 of the 22 answers that named Mantle and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.withmantle.com13

cakeequity.com13

qapita.com12

waveup.com9

eqvista.com8

cheqly.com7

ctacquisitions.com7

guideflow.com7

valueaddvc.com7

withmantle.com7

Ninety of the ninety domain citations in answers naming Mantle came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cakeequity.com/guides/best-cap-table-software13

blog.withmantle.com/best-cap-table-management-software-202610

qapita.com/blog/best-cap-table-management-software9

waveup.com/blog/best-cap-table-management-software9

cheqly.com/best-cap-table-software-startups7

ctacquisitions.com/best-cap-table-software-20267

eqvista.com/cap-table-management-software-startups7

guideflow.com/blog/cap-table-management-software7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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