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Index › Vendors › Cherwell · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Cherwell

6Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Cherwell was named 1 time in ITSM, where Freshservice led with 58%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business57 of 60

under the label threshold

Mid-market21 of 48

under the label threshold

Enterprise35 of 38

under the label threshold

In itsm · 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 Cherwell 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
IT service management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	21 of 48	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Freshservice at 58%

Movement

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

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

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Choose Cherwell if: You're mid-sized and need enterprise features at better prices.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ITSM · 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 Cherwell, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cherwell was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ServiceNow6 of 61Not in the top three

Freshservice5 of 61Not in the top three

Jira Service Management5 of 61Not in the top three

BMC Helix ITSM5 of 60Not in the top three

Ivanti Neurons for ITSM3 of 60Not in the top three

Zendesk3 of 60Not in the top three

ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus2 of 60Not in the top three

Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk1 of 61Not in the top three

Zoho Desk1 of 61Not in the top three

Aisera1 of 60Not 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 Cherwell. 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 5 of the 6 answers that named Cherwell and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

motadata.com5

gartner.com4

reddit.com4

servicedeskinstitute.com4

blog.invgate.com3

ones.com3

smcconsulting.be3

unthread.io3

xurrent.com3

atomicwork.com2

Thirty-four of the thirty-four domain citations in answers naming Cherwell came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/it-service-management-platforms4

motadata.com/blog/best-itsm-tools3

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1hc0gap/itsm_platform_shopping_what_do_you_recommend3

servicedeskinstitute.com/resources/itsm-tools-for-small-business3

xurrent.com/blog/top-itsm-tools3

cloudnuro.ai/blog/best-itsm-tools-for-small-businesses-budget-friendly-options-with-enterp2

eesel.ai/blog/itsm-for-smb2

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1t5nwq8/which_itsm_tool_is_actually_good_and_which_one_is2

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 Cherwell'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 Cherwell, 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 cherwell.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.