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Salesforce

19Judge labels
0First choices
12Negative labels
10 / 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
3 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Salesforce was named 3 times in Staffing agency tools and 1 other category, where Zoho Recruit led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In staffing agency tools · 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Staffing agency platformsTalent acquisition0%88 of 13650%2under 10 labels · led by Zoho Recruit at 22%
Compensation managementCompensation and total rewards0%126 of 140100%1under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Salesforce 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 Salesforce 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 4.500011
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00011
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase8 labelsNone
Comparative1 label1not counted in share
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 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.

“the learning curve is steep and it is expensive” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Staffing agency tools · paraphrase prompt · alternative

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.

“Salesforce as a base platform for comp management gets heavy criticism.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compensation management · negative prompt · soft negative
“Highly customizable but requires more setup investment” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Staffing agency tools · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Salesforce, over the 19 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.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
HubSpot6 of 191Not among the top eight
Bullhorn4 of 192Not among the top eight
Greenhouse4 of 192Not among the top eight
Pipedrive4 of 190Not among the top eight
Lever3 of 191Not among the top eight
Zoho Recruit3 of 191Not among the top eight
JazzHR2 of 192Not among the top eight
Recruit CRM2 of 192Not among the top eight
iCIMS Talent Cloud2 of 191Not among the top eight
Breezy HR2 of 190Not 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 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 12 of the 19 answers that named Salesforce and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com6
capterra.com4
forbes.com4
guideflow.com3
appvizer.com2
freshworks.com2
intervue.io2
learn.g2.com2
leonar.app2
mokahr.io2

Twenty-nine of the twenty-nine 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 Zoho Recruit takes 22%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “staffing agency platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “staffing agency platforms”
–
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)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
115+ ads · 114 text, 1 image · 115 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2024, as Salesforce, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 79 in the year, 36 before. 5 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 88 of 136 in staffing agency tools
Segment leader
22%
Zoho Recruit
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
19 answers
Its own site cited
in 12 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

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Addresses on salesforce.com
10,996
subdomains included
Content
710
counted in the table below
Documentation
5
Product · Integration
270 · 37
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Glossary or explainer25202025-06-17
Blog22542026-09-17
Case study98undated
Comparison4402026-04-23
News or press35202026-09-24
Report or ebook2912026-09-09
Template or tool1102026-03-09
Conference or event812026-09-08
Webinar or virtual event4undated
Podcast or video412026-09-17
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.

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The company

Salesforce is its own company.
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In 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.

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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.
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A verification link goes to your work email; an address at salesforce.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.