Every category where a model named Sphera 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
ESG and carbon reporting	Equity and corporate	0%	23 of 76	22%	9	under 10 labels · led by Sweep at 25%
Cap table management	Equity and corporate	0%	32 of 41	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Carta at 44%

Movement

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

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

Direct10 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative12 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative39 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.

“often a fit for companies that want comprehensive ESG + sustainability capabilities” GPT-5.4 mini · ESG and carbon reporting · direct prompt · alternative

“Sphera and Greenstone are recommended for mid-market companies (100-1,000 employees).” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ESG and carbon reporting · direct prompt · alternative

“Broad ESG incl. EHS/supply chain ... good for manufacturing” Grok 4.1 Fast · ESG and carbon reporting · 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.

“Beware the enterprise tools (Novisto, Sphera, Workiva's full suite)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ESG and carbon reporting · budget prompt · hard negative

“anything under 4.0 stars or <10 reviews (e.g., some with 3.9 like isolated Sphera feedback) risks poor support” Grok 4.1 Fast · ESG and carbon reporting · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sphera, over the 39 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sphera was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Workiva28 of 3916Not in the top three

IBM Envizi21 of 390Not in the top three

Watershed20 of 394Not in the top three

Persefoni19 of 393Not in the top three

Sweep15 of 391Not in the top three

Novisto15 of 390Not in the top three

Diligent ESG12 of 390Not in the top three

SAP Sustainability Control Tower12 of 390Not in the top three

Salesforce Net Zero Cloud10 of 390Not in the top three

Greenly9 of 391Not 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 Sphera. 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 33 of the 39 answers that named Sphera and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com25

guideflow.com22

coolset.com19

pulsora.com18

onestopesg.com15

esg-one.co11

horizonesg.global10

knowesg.com10

emissiontwin.com9

g2.com9

148 of the 148 domain citations in answers naming Sphera came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/esg-management-and-reporting-software22

guideflow.com/blog/esg-reporting-software21

coolset.com/academy/best-esg-reporting-software-tools19

pulsora.com/blog/best-esg-reporting-software18

onestopesg.com/esg-resources/best-esg-reporting-software12

esg-one.co/blog/esg-reporting-software-comparison10

knowesg.com/esg-reporting-tools10

emissiontwin.com/blog/best-esg-reporting-software9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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