Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 67 → 58 of 88
1 category · Named, not rankedClose
5Judge labels
0First choices
3Negative labels
4 / 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.
Standing
3 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Close was named 3 times in Financial close manageme, where FloQast led with 55%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business62 of 92
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market84 of 85
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In financial close manageme · 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 Close 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial close management | Accounting and close | 0% | 84 of 85 | 67% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by FloQast at 55% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Close held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Financial close manageme · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 64 → 67 of 77
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial close manageme | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 64 → 84 of 85 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Close across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Close across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.
No positive label carried a quote.
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.
“Tool to Definitely Avoid (Wrong Category) — Despite the name, this is a sales CRM, not financial close management software.” Kimi K2 · Financial close manageme · negative prompt · hard negative
“Close is excellent for high-volume inside sales but is a poor fit for teams that need more than phone-first outbound execution.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Financial close manageme · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Close, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Close was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Close, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Close was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Close. 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 5 of the 5 answers that named Close and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
close.comYour site4
g2.com3
gitnux.org3
pipeline.zoominfo.com3
pipelinecrm.com3
worldmetrics.org3
aicostadvisory.com2
geekflare.com2
hubspot.com2
larksuite.com2
Twenty-three of the twenty-seven domain citations in answers naming Close came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
close.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Close takes 0% of first choices and FloQast takes 55%.ShowHide
Search and answers
close.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Close takes 0% of first choices and FloQast takes 55%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “close management tools”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “financial close management software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 368,000 a month (“close”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,940,083 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 168,266 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 13,657 · 292 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 9,542
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 384 clicks and $2,188 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 84 of 85 in financial close manageme
Segment leader
55%
FloQast
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 5 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 5 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on close.com
2,241
subdomains included
Content
1,194
counted in the table below
Documentation
487
Product · Integration
0 · 280
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 893 | 8 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 209 | 0 | 2026-02-17 | ||
| Comparison | 49 | 2 | 2026-07-29 | ||
| Case study | 14 | 0 | 2025-05-15 | ||
| Report or ebook | 14 | 0 | 2020-05-27 | ||
| Conference or event | 6 | 0 | 2023-12-20 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | 0 | 2020-03-03 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2023-12-15 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-287 fixes i make in every sales process blog
- 2026-08-17Playbook to scaling sales teams blog
- 2026-07-29Close vs pipedrive 2026 comparison
- 2026-07-24Pipedrive alternative comparison
- 2026-07-21Sales pipeline crm blog
- 2026-07-20No brainer workflows every sales team needs blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page close.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. 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 September 29, 2026.
Names read as Close
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Close; a claim can dispute any of them.
Close CRM (close.com) 1
Follow Close
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Close is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Close is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The sales CRM built for calling, emailing, texting, automation and action
- For
- teams that sell
- Price stated
- Try for free close.com
- Starting price
- 9 close.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Try for free; No credit card required close.com
- Integrations claimed
- 100 close.com
- Certifications
- SOC2 Type 2 compliance
- Customers named
- FollowUp.comSisuClientMatchmaking.comFlatiron SchoolVIP IgniteCareer EvolvedGiveffectDevvo
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What Close's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: close.com, close.com/pricing, trust.close.com, close.com/customers, close.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
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 Close'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 Close, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Close by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Close 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 Close, 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.