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1 category · Named, not ranked

Coupa

15Judge labels

0First choices

7Negative labels

9 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Coupa was named 2 times in Recruiting CRM, where Lever led with 20%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business105 of 106

under the label threshold

Mid-market75 of 88

under the label threshold

Enterprise15 of 81

under the label threshold

In recruiting crm · 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 Coupa 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Recruiting CRM and sourcing	Talent acquisition	0%	75 of 88	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Lever at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Coupa 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 Coupa across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative7 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Coupa (with caveats)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recruiting CRM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Coupa, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Coupa was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SAP Ariba15 of 151Not in the top three

Jaggaer10 of 150Not in the top three

GEP SMART7 of 150Not in the top three

Ivalua7 of 150Not in the top three

LinkedIn Recruiter6 of 150Not in the top three

Procurify6 of 150Not in the top three

SeekOut5 of 151Not in the top three

Gem4 of 152Not in the top three

hireEZ4 of 151Not in the top three

Keelvar4 of 150Not 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 Coupa. 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 14 of the 15 answers that named Coupa and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com7

reddit.com7

hiretruffle.com6

leonar.app6

auravms.com5

spendflo.com5

siit.io4

advisoryexcellence.com3

dishertalent.com3

gartner.com3

Forty-nine of the forty-nine domain citations in answers naming Coupa came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/sourcing-software6

hiretruffle.com/blog/sourcing-tools-for-recruiters6

leonar.app/blog/best-talent-sourcing-platforms6

reddit.com/r/procurement/comments/1gpgktb/why_are_procure_to_pay_tools_rubbish_and_crazy5

siit.io/blog/best-procurement-software4

advisoryexcellence.com/honest-review-of-6-sourcing-software-platforms-in-20253

dishertalent.com/blog/sourcing-tools-review3

kodiakhub.com/blog/best-strategic-sourcing-software3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 Coupa'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 Coupa, 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 coupa.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.