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ClickUp

56Judge labels
4First choices
14Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
7Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.3, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in Goals and OKRs for small business buyers
Rank 15 of 54 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 27% of its 11 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of ClickUp →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In goals and okrs · 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 ClickUp 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
Goals and OKRsPerformance and talent management2%15 of 5427%11criticized challenger
Employee onboardingOnboarding and employee experience0%101 of 104100%2under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%
Skills intelligencePerformance and talent management0%53 of 1610%2under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%
Workforce schedulingCore HR and payroll0%64 of 9350%2under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26%
HR help desk and case managementOnboarding and employee experience0%44 of 920%1under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 26%
Internal communications and intranetOnboarding and employee experience0%52 of 790%1under 10 labels · led by Happeo at 16%
Org charts and org designWorkforce planning and analytics0%45 of 790%1under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 27%

Movement

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

By model

How each model treated ClickUp across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500213
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00123
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small00213
DeepSeek V4 Flash00112
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash20013
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX01102
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
Direct7 labels1
Paraphrase6 labels1
Comparative14 labelsNone
Budget-constrained13 labels2
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative13 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative56 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 5 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.

“The Best All-Rounder: ClickUp ... ClickUp is widely considered the best value-for-money software on the market.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Goals and OKRs · budget prompt · first choice
“Project Scheduling: Use Asana or ClickUp for general business” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce scheduling · negative prompt · first choice
“Need visual workflows: Pipefy or ClickUp” GLM 4.7 FlashX · HR help desk · budget 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.

“Avoid using your internal tools (like Asana, ClickUp, or Monday) as customer-facing onboarding portals.” Mistral Small · Employee onboarding · negative prompt · hard negative
“avoid running customer onboarding through internal PM tools like Monday.com, Asana, ClickUp” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Employee onboarding · negative prompt · hard negative
“ClickUp's goals module is its weakest link, arguably the worst of all the PM tools tested” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Goals and OKRs · negative prompt · hard negative
“Ambitious "All-in-One" Productivity Schedulers (ClickUp, Akiflow, Routine, etc.)- Why caution: ... request excessive permissions” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Workforce scheduling · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ClickUp, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ClickUp was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Asana26 of 560Not among the top eight
Monday.com18 of 560Not among the top eight
Weekdone15 of 560Not among the top eight
Notion13 of 561Not among the top eight
Perdoo13 of 561Not among the top eight
Tability10 of 564Not among the top eight
Profit.co10 of 561Not among the top eight
Quantive9 of 561Not among the top eight
Lattice9 of 560Not among the top eight
WorkBoard7 of 561Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 ClickUp. 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 37 of the 56 answers that named ClickUp and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com15
guideflow.com14
mooncamp.com13
okrstool.com13
firsthr.app12
clickup.comYour site11
learn.g2.com11
tability.io11
gartner.com10
g2.com9

108 of the 119 domain citations in answers naming ClickUp came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as ClickUp

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as ClickUp; a claim can dispute any of them.
ClickUp's Goals Module 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 ClickUp'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 ClickUp, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

With a new claim: the vendor brief

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for ClickUp by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where ClickUp is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name ClickUp, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

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 clickup.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.