2 categories · RankedKantata
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional services automation | Receivables and billing | 25% | 2 of 99 | 13% | 52 | accepted challenger | |
| Contractor payments | Spend and procurement | 0% | 42 of 98 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Tipalti at 22% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Kantata across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Positioned as best for mid-market and enterprise services orgs. Guideflow lists "Best for mid-market and enterprise services orgs: Kantata"” Muse Glimmer 30B · PSA · direct prompt · first choice
“Choose Kantata if: You're a large consulting firm that treats resource forecasting as a core discipline and need deep project financials.” Kimi K2 · PSA · comparative prompt · first choice
“1. Kantata (formerly Mavenlink + Kimble) - Best for: Large enterprises with complex, multi-departmental projects” Mistral Small · PSA · comparative prompt · first choice
“Kantata is widely considered the best professional services automation (PSA) platform for mid-market B2B companies” MiniMax M2.5 · PSA · 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.
“if your use case is not services-delivery-heavy, because these are positioned as specialized PSA platforms ... may be overbuilt for simpler needs” Perplexity Sonar · PSA · negative prompt · soft negative
“Legacy PSA leaders often struggle with their history... the transition to newer clouds ... has been rocky.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PSA · negative prompt · soft negative
“Kantata if you need a very simple, low-admin tool... user reviews report a learning curve and complexity” GPT-6 Luna · PSA · negative prompt · soft negative
“the platform's update and interface are slow—which can slow down work and put teams behind” Claude Haiku 4.5 · PSA · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Kantata, over the 150 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kantata was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 147 of the 150 answers that named Kantata and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
546 of the 659 domain citations in answers naming Kantata came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
kantata.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Kantata takes 25% of first choices and BigTime takes 29%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 3,600 a month (“kantata”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 50 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 5,770 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,166 · 158 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,644
- Paid Google search
- 3 searches its ads show for, about 262 clicks and $11,592 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 38 across its categories
- Named in
- 150 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 147 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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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 593 | 8 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| Podcast or video | 221 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 94 | undated | |||
| Case study | 76 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 32 | 0 | 2025-03-05 | ||
| Report or ebook | 29 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 13 | 1 | 2026-07-17 | ||
| Conference or event | 7 | 0 | 2022-04-26 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-25Speed isnt strategy why ai doesnt equal expertise ktl26 blog
- 2026-09-24Youre not one bold decision away from outcome based pricing ktl26 blog
- 2026-09-22When more equals less why multiple disparate ai agents fail the services industry blog
- 2026-09-22Kantata unveils agent studio ai agents that go beyond automation to compound professional services expertise blog
- 2026-09-08Fullfunnel transforms professional services delivery with kantata blog
- 2026-08-06Resource forecasting for success best practices for professional services firms blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page kantata.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 Kantata
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The company
Kantata is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Leading Professional Services Automation Platform
- For
- agencies & professional services firms
- Price stated
- Kantata's pricing is tailored based on your company size, goals, and the way your team works. kantata.com/pricing
- Integrations claimed
- 1200 kantata.com
- Customers named
- BoxRSMHugeSageEsriQualtricsHitachiDeloitte
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, certifications, hosting
What Kantata's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: kantata.com, kantata.com, kantata.com/pricing, kantata.com/solutions/wow-moments, kantata.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of 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 Kantata'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 Kantata, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Kantata by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Kantata 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 Kantata, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Kantata is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Kantata is among the products AI models recommend first in Professional services automation this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.