Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 14 → 7 of 83
Zoho · 1 category · RankedZoho Connect
25Judge labels
3First choices
0Negative labels
12 / 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.
Best standing
4% in Internal communications for small business buyers
Rank 13 of 86 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 11 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Zoho Connect →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business8 of 87
4%14 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market13 of 86
2%11 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In internal communications · 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 Zoho Connect 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internal communications and intranet | Onboarding and employee experience | 2% | 13 of 86 | 0% | 11 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Zoho Connect held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Internal communications · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 12 → 13 of 83
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internal communications | 2% | 2% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 12 → 13 of 86 |
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 13 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 Zoho Connect 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 Zoho Connect 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct2 labels1
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained18 labels2
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative2 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 5 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.
“I'd start with Bitrix24 or Zoho Connect - both offer robust free tiers” MiniMax M2.5 · Internal communications · budget prompt · first choice
“Zoho Connect is another budget-friendly choice, with social-style feeds, groups, and a searchable knowledge base” Muse Glimmer 30B · Internal communications · budget prompt · alternative
“best for affordable collaboration with social-style feeds, groups, and a searchable knowledge base” Perplexity Sonar · Internal communications · budget prompt · alternative
“mentioned as a budget-conscious option that's designed specifically for small businesses” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Internal communications · budget 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Zoho Connect, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Zoho Connect was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Zoho Connect, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Zoho Connect 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 Zoho Connect. 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 25 of the 25 answers that named Zoho Connect and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
learn.g2.com20
g2.com18
guideflow.com17
firsthr.app16
peoplemanagingpeople.com16
oak.com14
softr.io13
workvivo.com11
agilityportal.io10
usewhale.io8
143 of the 143 domain citations in answers naming Zoho Connect came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Zoho Connect stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Zoho Connect stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,300 a month (“zoho connect”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 49 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Zoho's site (zoho.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 13 of 86 in internal communications
Segment leader
14%
Microsoft Teams
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 25 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 25 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.
Names read as Zoho Connect
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Zoho Connect; a claim can dispute any of them.
Zoho Connect (Free Tier) 1
Follow Zoho Connect
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
Zoho is the company behind Zoho Connect.ShowHide
The company
Zoho is the company behind Zoho Connect.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Zoho
- Zoho Analytics, Zoho Bookings, Zoho CRM, Zoho Cliq, Zoho Desk, Zoho Desk + Zoho People, Zoho Learn, Zoho Payroll and 5 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Modern intranet software to build an engaged and empowered workforce.
- For
- companies
- Price stated
- Compare plans zoho.com/connect/groups.html
- Free plan or trial
- Sign up for free; Instant access. No credit card needed; Start your free trial zoho.com/connect
- Integrations claimed
- 2 zoho.com/googleworkspace/connect
- Hosting
- US
- Customers named
- Toyota Mithra
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, certifications
What Zoho Connect's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: zoho.com/connect, zoho.com/connect/groups.html, zoho.com/googleworkspace/connect, zoho.com/connect/ideas-sharing.html, zoho.com/connect/task-management.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Zoho Connect'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 Zoho Connect, 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 Zoho Connect by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Zoho Connect 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 Zoho Connect, 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.