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Freshservice

255Judge labels
61First choices
21Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
58% in ITSM for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 48 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
11 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 51 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
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 Freshservice 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
IT service managementIT operations and endpoint58%1 of 480%51endorsed leader
IT asset managementIT operations and endpoint18%3 of 616%33accepted challenger
Incident management and on-callIT operations and endpoint0%15 of 5320%15accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Freshservice 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 Freshservice across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.523207
GPT-5.4 mini23106
Gemini 3.5 Flash531110
Perplexity Sonar351110
Grok 4.1 Fast42107
Mistral Small32229
DeepSeek V4 Flash362112
Llama 4 Maverick11305
Qwen 3.7 Flash45009
Kimi K244109
GLM 4.7 FlashX41207
MiniMax M2.533208

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
Direct62 labels28
Paraphrase29 labels13
Comparative63 labels12not counted in share
Budget-constrained37 labels9
Scale-constrained30 labels11
Negative34 labels7not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative255 labels in all, every segment counted; 61 of the 80 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.

“Freshworks officially joined ServiceNow and Atlassian in the Leader quadrant, largely due to its focus on ease of use and rapid setup.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ITSM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Freshservice — Best fit for your size: live in days–2 weeks, transparent per-agent pricing, strong out-of-the-box workflows.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ITSM · scale prompt · first choice
“my default recommendation is Freshservice if you want a balanced, easy-to-adopt platform with ITSM plus asset management” GPT-5.4 mini · ITAM · direct prompt · first choice
“Widely considered the "sweet spot" for mid-market companies. It is highly intuitive, has a very fast deployment cycle” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ITSM · scale 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.

“more general IT service desks (ticketing) rather than on-call incident response” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Incidents · comparative prompt · soft negative
“its Software Asset Management (SAM) modules can be too lightweight” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ITAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“better fits when you need full ITSM ... they may be overkill” Perplexity Sonar · Incidents · negative prompt · soft negative
“it lacks native on-call management and has limited integrations” Mistral Small · Incidents · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Freshservice, over the 255 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Freshservice was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
ServiceNow110 of 25530Not in the top three
BMC Helix ITSM68 of 2551Not in the top three
Ivanti Neurons for ITSM44 of 2551Not in the top three
Zendesk44 of 2550Not in the top three
Lansweeper41 of 2554Not in the top three
ServiceNow IT Asset Management39 of 2556Not 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 Freshservice. 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 217 of the 255 answers that named Freshservice and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com98
blog.invgate.com97
virima.com78
alloysoftware.com51
motadata.com49
expertinsights.com48
eesel.ai44
assetmanagement.global43
g2.com42
console.com41

591 of the 591 domain citations in answers naming Freshservice came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Freshservice

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Freshservice; a claim can dispute any of them.
Freshservice (Freshworks) 5Freshservice (by Freshworks) 3Freshservice ITAM 2Freshservice by Freshworks 2FreshService 1Freshservice Asset Management 1Freshservice Growth 1Freshservice IT Asset Management 1Freshworks Freshservice 1
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