CRM software
Which CRM do AI engines recommend to a sales team?
HubSpot was named in 100% of answers across one AI engine.
- Engines
- DeepSeek (deepseek-chat)
- Prompts asked
- 10
- Answers counted
- 10
- Measured
- 2026-09-13
Who got named
Across 8 brands we tracked. “Named in” is the raw count — with 10 answers, each one is 10% of the sample.
| Best position | Brand | Named in | Rate | Avg position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HubSpot | 10/10 | 100% | 1.3 |
| 2 | Pipedrive | 7/10 | 70% | 2.0 |
| 2 | Salesforce | 7/10 | 70% | 2.0 |
| — | Zoho | 6/10 | 60% | — |
| — | Freshsales | 5/10 | 50% | — |
| 2 | Close | 3/10 | 30% | 2.0 |
| 2 | Attio | 1/10 | 10% | 2.0 |
| — | Monday CRM | 1/10 | 10% | — |
Question by question
Which of the 8 tracked brands each prompt named — HubSpot, the leader, is highlighted.
- What is the best CRM for a small business?Salesforce · HubSpot · Pipedrive · Zoho · Freshsales
- Best CRM for a B2B sales teamSalesforce · HubSpot · Pipedrive · Zoho · Freshsales
- HubSpot vs Salesforce — which is better?Salesforce · HubSpot
- What CRM should a startup use?Salesforce · HubSpot · Pipedrive · Attio · Close
- Best free CRM softwareHubSpot · Zoho · Freshsales
- How do I choose a CRM?Salesforce · HubSpot · Pipedrive · Zoho · Freshsales
- Pipedrive vs HubSpot — which is better?Salesforce · HubSpot · Pipedrive
- Zoho alternatives for a small sales teamHubSpot · Pipedrive · Zoho · Close · Freshsales · Monday CRM
- Best CRM for a real estate teamHubSpot
- What is the best CRM for managing a sales pipeline?Salesforce · HubSpot · Pipedrive · Zoho · Close
Asked the same questions, the top two were separated on 3: only HubSpot in 3.
How this was measured
- Each prompt was asked verbatim — no instruction to produce a list, no mention of AnswerWatch. Biasing the answers would make the numbers meaningless.
- A brand counts as named when its name (or an alias we recorded) appears in the answer text, matched on word boundaries so “Core” does not match inside “Score”.
- Position is the 1-based place in the answer’s main ranked list — the longest list it wrote. Answers often add smaller side-lists (“best for small teams”, “also consider”); counting those would let a brand look like #1 for winning a two-item list. A brand named only in prose, or only in a side-list, has no position and shows “—”.
- The brand list is curated, not the whole market. These are brands we chose to track, so a brand missing from this page is not evidence that AI ignores it. Answers sometimes name companies we did not track; those are not counted.
- Failed API calls are excluded from rates rather than counted as “not named”, and are reported above.
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