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 83 → 73 of 88
4 categories · Named, not rankedSalesforce
13Judge labels
0First choices
9Negative labels
7 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
5 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Salesforce was named 5 times in Financial close manageme and 3 other categories, 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 business86 of 92
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market71 of 85
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise15 of 75
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
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 Salesforce 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% | 71 of 85 | 50% | 2 | 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. |
| Cash flow forecasting | Treasury and cash | 0% | 94 of 101 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Agicap at 13% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Entity management | Equity and corporate | 0% | 66 of 81 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Athennian at 41% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Financial reporting and dashboards | Planning and analysis | 0% | 79 of 105 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 33% | =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, Salesforce held within the floor in all four categories: 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 20 → 59 of 77
Enterprise=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 43 → 15 of 71
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 20 → 71 of 85 |
| Cash flow forecasting | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 94 of 101, unchanged |
| Entity management | 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 73 → 66 of 81 |
| Financial reporting | 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 112 → 79 of 105 |
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 Salesforce 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 Salesforce 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 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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
Comparative6 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 2 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.
“Avoid: Tools that are built on top of generic platforms (like Salesforce or Zoho) without dedicated financial engineering” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Cash flow forecasting · negative prompt · hard negative
“"Salesforce is not inherently the wrong CRM. It becomes the wrong choice when a company pays for enterprise flexibility... that its sales process does not require."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Financial close manageme · negative prompt · soft negative
“build custom entity management trackers inside general-purpose platforms like Salesforce, SharePoint... Approach this option with caution.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Entity management · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Salesforce, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salesforce was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Salesforce, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salesforce 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 Salesforce. 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 10 of the 13 answers that named Salesforce and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
g2.com4
worldmetrics.org4
gitnux.org3
guideflow.com3
pipelinecrm.com3
proposify.com3
blog.hubspot.com2
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com2
clonepartner.com2
close.com2
Twenty-eight of the twenty-eight domain citations in answers naming Salesforce came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
salesforce.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Salesforce takes 0% of first choices and FloQast takes 55%.ShowHide
Search and answers
salesforce.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Salesforce takes 0% of first choices and FloQast takes 55%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “close management tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “financial close management software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 550,000 a month (“salesforce”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 60,632 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 7,941,323 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 242,877 · 49,522 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 211,946
- Paid Google search
- 14 searches its ads show for, about 363 clicks and $8,259 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 71 of 85 in financial close manageme
Segment leader
55%
FloQast
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 13 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 10 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 salesforce.com
10,996
subdomains included
Content
710
counted in the table below
Documentation
5
Product · Integration
270 · 37
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 252 | 0 | 2025-06-17 | ||
| Blog | 225 | 4 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Case study | 98 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 44 | 0 | 2026-04-23 | ||
| News or press | 35 | 20 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Report or ebook | 29 | 1 | 2026-09-09 | ||
| Template or tool | 11 | 0 | 2026-03-09 | ||
| Conference or event | 8 | 1 | 2026-09-08 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 4 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 4 | 1 | 2026-09-17 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Five dreamforce 2026 takeaways news or press
- 2026-09-23Higher education ai agents news or press
- 2026-09-17What does salesforce do blog
- 2026-09-17Building the agentic enterprise secrets from early adopters podcast or video
- 2026-09-16Why we post trained our own reasoning model news or press
- 2026-09-16Missionsforce expansion agents nvidia openai partnerships news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page salesforce.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 Salesforce
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
Salesforce is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Salesforce is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The #1 Agentic AI CRM
- For
- companies of all sizes, from startups and small businesses to large global enterprises
- Price stated
- free salesforce.com
- Starting price
- 0 salesforce.com
- Free plan or trial
- free for 30 days salesforce.com
- Customers named
- VolkswagenEngineGood360PrecinareMarkablePepsicoPandoraWilliams Sonoma
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What Salesforce's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: salesforce.com, salesforce.com/pricing, trust.salesforce.com, salesforce.com/products, salesforce.com/customer-stories. 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 Salesforce'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 Salesforce, 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 Salesforce by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Salesforce 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 Salesforce, 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.