Best project management tool for mid-market

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monday.com

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84/100 slot score

100% of answers name it

#3 avg. position

+13 ahead of Wrike

monday.com leads the mid-market PM question with a perfect appearance rate and the highest slot score, but no brand owns it.

monday.com is the only tool mentioned in all 12 answers across every model, and its slot score of 84 sits more than 13 points clear of the next tier, where Wrike and Asana are essentially tied at 71 each. Wrike is notably strong on Gemini and Perplexity while Asana clusters toward Perplexity, and Celoxis punches above its weight on ChatGPT, where it consistently appears early and draws on its own content as a citation source. The slot status is contested, meaning no single brand controls enough of the position-weighted weight to own this question outright, which makes it genuinely winnable for any challenger that can improve its average position or break into models where it currently underperforms.

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	monday.com	84	100%	#3
2	Wrike	71	92%	#4
3	Asana	71	83%	#3
4	Celoxis	60	75%	#3
5	Smartsheet	48	67%	#4
6	ClickUp	47	58%	#3
7	Jira	44	67%	#5
8	Microsoft Project	23	42%	#6

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.

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:

• "What's the best project management tool for a mid-market company with about 250 employees?"
• "We're a 250-person company that has outgrown its starter tools. Which project management tool should we use?"

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

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