When asked for the best customer success platform, 6 AI assistants named 10 brands between them this month. HubSpot Service Hub was named most often, followed by ChurnZero and Intercom. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HubSpot Service Hub | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| ChurnZero | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Intercom | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Freshdesk | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Gainsight | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Totango | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | 3 of 6 |
| ClientSuccess | · | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | 2 of 6 |
| Custify | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Vitally | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Zendesk | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 7 brands, in this order: HubSpot Service Hub, Zendesk, Gainsight, ChurnZero, Freshdesk, Totango, Intercom.
Selecting the best customer success platform for a small business depends on specific needs, budget, and existing tools.
Perplexity
Named 3 brands, in this order: HubSpot Service Hub, Custify, ClientSuccess.
For a small business, the best customer success platform is usually HubSpot Service Hub if you want the most balanced option: it offers a free plan, built-in CRM, ticketing, health scores, and automation, and it is specifically recommended as a top choice for small-to-mid-sized businesses ...
Claude
Named 4 brands, in this order: Freshdesk, Intercom, Totango, Gainsight.
Here are some top options depending on your needs and budget:
Grok
Named 5 brands, in this order: HubSpot Service Hub, Intercom, Vitally, ChurnZero, Zendesk.
DeepSeek
Named 7 brands, in this order: Vitally, ChurnZero, Custify, HubSpot Service Hub, Gainsight, Intercom, Freshdesk.
There's no single "best" customer success platform — the right choice depends on your business model (SaaS, services, e-commerce), your budget, and how much customer data you're managing.
Cohere
Named 4 brands, in this order: HubSpot Service Hub, ChurnZero, ClientSuccess, Totango.
Choosing the best customer success platform for a small business depends on your specific needs, budget, and goals.
The questions asked
- What is the best customer success platform for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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