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 70 → 53 of 61
2 categories · Named, not rankedGlobal Sources
13Judge labels
0First choices
11Negative labels
7 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, 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. Global Sources was named 7 times in Procure-to-pay and 1 other category, where Procurify led with 42%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business61 of 69
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market86 of 87
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In procure-to-pay · 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 Global Sources 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Procure-to-pay | Spend and procurement | 0% | 86 of 87 | 80% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 42% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Strategic sourcing | Spend and procurement | 0% | 126 of 128 | 100% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by oboloo at 15% | =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, Global Sources held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Procure-to-pay · 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 80 → 78 of 79
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Procure-to-pay | 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 80 → 86 of 87 |
| Strategic sourcing | 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 52 → 126 of 128 |
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 Global Sources 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 Global Sources 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 | 2 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative13 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 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.
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.
“Trustpilot reviews call out fraud on Global Sources ("maximum suppliers are fraud," no PayPal/credit card to avoid traceability)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Procure-to-pay · negative prompt · hard negative
“Users frequently report that the majority of suppliers are fraudulent and that the "Verified" status is essentially meaningless.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Strategic sourcing · negative prompt · hard negative
“This platform has extremely poor reviews and numerous complaints” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Procure-to-pay · negative prompt · hard negative
“Better curated than Alibaba for technical goods, but still mixed with intermediaries and smaller datasets—cross-check suppliers” Grok 4.1 Fast · Strategic sourcing · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Global Sources, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Global Sources was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Global Sources, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Global Sources 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 Global Sources. 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 13 of the 13 answers that named Global Sources and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
smartbuy.alibaba.com7
mindsprint.com6
auravms.com5
globalsources.comYour site5
linkedin.com5
softwareadvice.com5
capterra.com4
hiretruffle.com4
procurementtactics.com4
siit.io4
Forty-four of the forty-nine domain citations in answers naming Global Sources came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on globalsources.com
257
subdomains included
Content
247
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Podcast or video | 165 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 49 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 17 | undated | |||
| News or press | 16 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page globalsources.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.
Follow Global Sources
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
Global Sources is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Global Sources is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Global Sources Hong Kong exhibitions & online multichannel B2B marketplace and sourcing platform
- For
- buyers
- Free plan or trial
- Register for free globalsources.com
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Global Sources's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: globalsources.com. 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 Global Sources'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 Global Sources, 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 Global Sources by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Global Sources 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 Global Sources, 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.