Thunderdome B2B SaaS AI Visibility Index
Company size · July 2026

Best CRM for enterprise

AI's answer · live, with web access
Contested
92/100 slot score
92% of answers name it
1st avg. position
+16 ahead of Microsoft Dynamics 365

Salesforce leads the enterprise CRM question, appearing in 92% of answers at an average position of 1 across all three models.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a real presence at 83% share and average position 2, but it trails Salesforce by 16 points on slot score and never pulls ahead in any model's ranking. Creatio and HubSpot each show up in 58% of answers but land at positions 4 and 5 on average, meaning they read as secondary options rather than genuine contenders. The slot is rated contested rather than owned, so Salesforce leads convincingly without hitting the threshold that locks out challengers entirely. Any brand trying to take this question has to close a 16-point slot score gap while also dislodging a product the models consistently describe as the default at scale.

AI-generated analysis of the July 2026 measurements.

The full field

Every brand recommended for this question, from 12 answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.

# Brand Slot score Appears in Avg. position
1 Salesforce 92 92% 1st
2 Microsoft Dynamics 365 76 83% #2
3 Creatio 44 58% #4
4 HubSpot 40 58% #5
5 Oracle 19 25% #4
6 Oracle CX 19 25% #4
7 SugarCRM 17 25% #5
8 Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales 15 17% #2

Slot score is position-weighted, 0 to 100: being recommended first counts far more than a trailing mention. "Appears in" is the share of answers naming the brand at all.

Other surfaces

Model memory (same assistants, no web access) Salesforce (same winner)
Google AI Mode (the real surface, scraped) Salesforce then Microsoft Dynamics 365, Creatio
Google AI Overviews (the real surface, scraped) Salesforce then Microsoft Dynamics 365, Bitrix24

The main measurement above is the assistants' real answers with live web access. These rows show the same question on other surfaces: the models' bare memory, and Google's own AI search experiences.

How this was measured

ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini each answered this question in two phrasings, several times each, with live web access and citations: the closest API-reachable version of the real assistant experience (no personalization or account memory, which no vendor can provide). Model-memory answers (no web) are measured separately and shown above as a comparison surface. A brand counts once per answer that recommends it. The exact questions:

Part of the CRM ranking. Method details on the methodology page. Rankings reflect measured AI answers, not paid placement.

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