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Calero

132Judge labels
10First choices
55Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
12% in Telecom expense mgmt for enterprise buyers
Rank 6 of 89 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 39% of its 46 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Calero →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In telecom expense mgmt · 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 Calero 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 rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Telecom expense managementSpend and procurement6%6 of 8939%46criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Calero yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Calero across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500112
GPT-5.4 mini10102
Gemini 3.5 Flash01023
Perplexity Sonar00033
Grok 4.1 Fast13026
Mistral Small00112
DeepSeek V4 Flash03115
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00033
Kimi K213116
GLM 4.7 FlashX11215
MiniMax M2.501102
GPT-6 Luna10023
Muse Glimmer 30B02013

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
Direct27 labels3
Paraphrase24 labels3
Comparative27 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained16 labels3
Scale-constrained14 labels1
Negative24 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative132 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 14 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.

“Top picks: Calero (unified IT/TEM), Tangoe (enterprise-grade), Cimpl (broad tech mgmt), Lightyear (AI-heavy), Temforce (workflow-focused).” Grok 4.1 Fast · Telecom expense mgmt · scale prompt · first choice
“Choose Calero or Tangoe if you are a large enterprise managing thousands of devices and complex contracts” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Telecom expense mgmt · comparative prompt · first choice
“Start with Tangoe, Calero, Sakon, and Cimpl for a broad enterprise TEM comparison” GPT-6 Luna · Telecom expense mgmt · comparative prompt · first choice
“with Calero being my default recommendation for most mid-market teams” GPT-5.4 mini · Telecom expense mgmt · direct prompt · first choice

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.

“Users report slow data reporting, delayed updates when requesting changes, and poor customer support” Kimi K2 · Telecom expense mgmt · negative prompt · hard negative
“What to Avoid for Mid-Market” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Telecom expense mgmt · direct prompt · hard negative
“Traditional giants like Tangoe or Calero are often built for massive enterprises ... making them overkill and too expensive for smaller setups” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Telecom expense mgmt · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Calero — scrutinize customization and service commitments. A Gartner reviewer described missed milestones and limited tailoring” GPT-6 Luna · Telecom expense mgmt · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Calero, over the 132 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Calero was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Tangoe One Telecom114 of 13225Not among the top eight
Upland Cimpl21 of 1322Not among the top eight
Cimpl17 of 1321Not among the top eight
Cass Information Systems15 of 1320Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Calero. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 128 of the 132 answers that named Calero and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

calero.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Calero takes 6% of first choices and Genuity takes 19%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “telecom expense management platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “telecom expense management platforms”
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not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
3,600 a month (“calero”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
296 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 1,930 a month
Searches its site ranks for
401 · 28 in the top three
Sites linking to it
1,068
Paid Google search
6 searches its ads show for, about 281 clicks and $4,743 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
65 ads · 51 text, 8 image, 6 video · 14 shown in the last 30 days

First shown December 2024, as Telesoft LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 20 in the year, 45 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
6%
rank 6 of 89 in telecom expense mgmt
Segment leader
19%
Genuity
First choices
10 across its categories
Named in
132 answers
Its own site cited
in 128 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on calero.com
482
subdomains included
Content
421
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
1 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-11 to 2026-10LatestCategories named
Blog32952026-09-29Expense management, Telecom expense mgmt
Conference or event2202025-08-14
Report or ebook1912026-08-08
Webinar or virtual event1702026-03-18
Glossary or explainer1022026-09-02Expense management, Telecom expense mgmt
Comparison802023-03-20Expense management
Case study652026-08-08
Podcast or video612026-08-07
News or press312026-09-16
Template or tool102024-01-11
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page calero.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name expense management (28); 4 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Calero

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Calero; a claim can dispute any of them.
Calero (Calero-MDSL) 1Calero (formerly Calero-MDSL) 1

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The company

Calero is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Technology Business Management Solutions
For
Organizations; IT; Finance; Procurement; Operations
Certifications
ISO 27001:2022ISO 27701:2019SOC2 Type II
Customers named
Avery DennisonTTECValmontHenry Ford Health SystemsScottish GovernmentHenry Schein
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What Calero's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: calero.com, calero.com/security, calero.com/why-calero/platform-unification, calero.com/media-type/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Calero by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Calero is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Calero, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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