When asked for the best sales intelligence tool, 6 AI assistants named 8 brands between them this month. Lusha was named most often, followed by ZoomInfo and Apollo. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lusha | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| ZoomInfo | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Apollo | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| LinkedIn Sales Navigator | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| HubSpot Sales Hub | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | 3 of 6 |
| Clay | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Hunter.io | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Seamless.ai | · | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 3 brands, in this order: LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, HubSpot Sales Hub.
Selecting the best sales intelligence tool for a small business depends on specific needs, budget constraints, and integration capabilities.
Perplexity
Named 3 brands, in this order: Apollo, HubSpot Sales Hub, Lusha.
For most small businesses, Apollo is the best all-around sales intelligence tool because it combines a large contact database with built-in outreach, making it practical for lean teams that want prospecting and engagement in one place.
Claude
Named 6 brands, in this order: Apollo, Hunter.io, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, Seamless.ai, Lusha.
Start with free tiers of Apollo or Hunter before committing to paid plans.
Grok
Named 6 brands, in this order: Apollo, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, HubSpot Sales Hub, Clay, Lusha.
The best sales intelligence tool for a small business is usually Apollo.io, though the "best" choice depends on your budget, industry, and whether you need heavy LinkedIn integration.
DeepSeek
Named 6 brands, in this order: Apollo, Lusha, Hunter.io, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Clay.
There's no single "best" tool — it depends on what you mean by "sales intelligence" and how you sell.
Cohere
Named 2 brands, in this order: ZoomInfo, Lusha.
Choosing the best sales intelligence tool for a small business depends on your specific needs, budget, and goals.
The questions asked
- What is the best sales intelligence tool 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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