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Pipedrive

30Judge labels
4First choices
3Negative labels
9 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
8% in Revenue recognition for small business buyers
Rank 26 of 77 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 5 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In revenue recognition · 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 Pipedrive 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
Revenue recognitionAccounting and close0%26 of 770%5under 10 labels · led by Maxio at 15%
Board and investor reportingPlanning and analysis0%90 of 97100%1under 10 labels · led by OnBoard at 25%
Financial close managementAccounting and close0%28 of 680%1under 10 labels · led by FloQast at 60%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Pipedrive 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 Pipedrive 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 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar02002
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00112
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.500101

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
Direct6 labels2
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative7 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained9 labels2
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative5 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 6 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.

“Pipedrive is highlighted as a good SMB-friendly choice for tracking recognized and deferred revenue without a full ERP” Perplexity Sonar · Revenue recognition · budget prompt · alternative
“A user-friendly CRM that allows small businesses to track recognized and deferred revenue” Mistral Small · Revenue recognition · budget prompt · alternative
“Best for visual pipeline management” Perplexity Sonar · Financial close manageme · 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.

“A CRM tool that can be used for investor reporting, although it's not specifically designed for this purpose.” Llama 4 Maverick · Board · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Pipedrive, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pipedrive was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
QuickBooks Online13 of 306Not in the top three
Xero9 of 304Not in the top three
Maxio9 of 301Not in the top three
Flowrev6 of 302Not in the top three
TrueRev5 of 302Not in the top three
HubSpot5 of 300Not in the top three
Ordway5 of 300Not in the top three
Close4 of 301Not in the top three
Salesforce4 of 301Not in the top three
Trullion4 of 301Not 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 Pipedrive. 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 29 of the 30 answers that named Pipedrive and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

pipedrive.comYour site26
getapp.com16
zenskar.com15
wise.com13
worldmetrics.org13
dualentry.com12
ledgerup.ai11
younium.com11
guideflow.com10
rightrev.com10

111 of the 137 domain citations in answers naming Pipedrive came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 Pipedrive'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 Pipedrive, 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 pipedrive.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.

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