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Ten Thousand Coffees

44Judge labels
1First choices
4Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
2% in Mentoring software for mid-market buyers
Rank 9 of 55 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 15 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In mentoring software · 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 Ten Thousand Coffees 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
Mentoring softwareLearning and development2%9 of 550%15accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Ten Thousand Coffees 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 Ten Thousand Coffees across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash12003
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash00101
Kimi K200202
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500101

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
Direct6 labelsNone
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative20 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained7 labels1
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative44 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“Mid-market / fast deployment: Together, Mentorloop, Ten Thousand Coffees, Mentorgain” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Mentoring software · scale prompt · first choice
“specializes in automated, smart introductions to break down organizational silos” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Mentoring software · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best For: Networking, peer-to-peer learning, and organic connection.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Mentoring software · comparative prompt · alternative
“Community networking + discovery: Ten Thousand Coffees, PushFar” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Mentoring software · comparative prompt · alternative

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Ten Thousand Coffees, over the 43 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ten Thousand Coffees was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
MentorcliQ41 of 439Not in the top three
Together40 of 436Not in the top three
Chronus39 of 434Not in the top three
Qooper38 of 4313Not in the top three
Mentorloop25 of 431Not in the top three
Guider17 of 430Not in the top three
PushFar14 of 432Not in the top three
Mentorgain11 of 430Not in the top three
ADPList9 of 430Not in the top three
MentorCity9 of 430Not 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 Ten Thousand Coffees. 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 39 of the 43 answers that named Ten Thousand Coffees and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

qooper.io35
chronus.com29
brancher.com.au25
gartner.com24
mentorcity.com18
mentorcliq.com18
mentorgain.com17
togetherplatform.com14
guideflow.com12
hrlineup.com10

202 of the 202 domain citations in answers naming Ten Thousand Coffees came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Ten Thousand Coffees

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Ten Thousand Coffees; a claim can dispute any of them.
Ten Thousand Coffees (10KC) 310KC 210KC (Ten Thousand Coffees) 2
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