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Index Vendors › Beekeeper · September 2026 Edition
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Beekeeper

67Judge labels
6First choices
13Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
9% in Frontline employee apps for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 97 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
4 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 4% of its 24 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In frontline employee apps · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Beekeeper for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Frontline employee appsOnboarding and employee experience9%3 of 974%24accepted challenger
Internal communications and intranetOnboarding and employee experience0%50 of 800%1under 10 labels · led by Happeo at 16%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Beekeeper yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Beekeeper across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash04217
Perplexity Sonar10001
Grok 4.1 Fast01203
Mistral Small10102
DeepSeek V4 Flash11103
Llama 4 Maverick10102
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K202103
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
MiniMax M2.511002

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct15 labels6
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative22 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained13 labelsNone
Negative8 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative67 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 9 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“1. Beekeeper - a frontline-specific communications platform designed to connect non-desk workers” Llama 4 Maverick · Frontline employee apps · direct prompt · first choice
“Choose Blink or Beekeeper if your main problem is frontline communication.” Perplexity Sonar · Frontline employee apps · comparative prompt · first choice
“Beekeeper excels in multilingual support and operational communications” MiniMax M2.5 · Frontline employee apps · direct prompt · first choice
“### 1. Beekeeper (now by LumApps) — Best for frontline workflows” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Frontline employee apps · direct prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“giants like Beekeeper or Staffbase often require five-figure annual minimums and custom quotes” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Frontline employee apps · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Beekeeper, over the 67 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Beekeeper was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Staffbase52 of 675Not in the top three
WorkJam32 of 675Not in the top three
Firstup25 of 670Not in the top three
MangoApps21 of 673Not in the top three
Microsoft Teams21 of 671Not in the top three
YOOBIC18 of 671Not in the top three
Workvivo17 of 671Not in the top three
Slack16 of 670Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Beekeeper. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 54 of the 67 answers that named Beekeeper and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mangoapps.com46
staffbase.com36
redeapp.com34
changeengine.com32
joinblink.com32
getzelos.com24
guideflow.com24
crewcheck.io22
yourco.io16
turnonwork.com15

281 of the 281 domain citations in answers naming Beekeeper came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Beekeeper

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Beekeeper; a claim can dispute any of them.
Beekeeper (LumApps) 2Beekeeper (now part of LumApps) 2Beekeeper (now by LumApps) 1LumApps + Beekeeper 1
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Beekeeper's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Beekeeper, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at beekeeper.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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