Every category where a model named Grasshopper 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	Since September 2026
Business phone systems	IT operations and endpoint	2%	12 of 75	9%	11	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative15 labelsNone

Budget-constrained15 labels3

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative10 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative45 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“Small team (1–5 people) on a tight budget: Grasshopper ($14/month flat)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Business phones · budget prompt · first choice

“Grasshopper is best for solopreneurs and very small teams that want simple call forwarding and extensions” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Business phones · comparative prompt · alternative

“Grasshopper charges a flat rate... allows *unlimited users* to share one business number” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Business phones · budget prompt · alternative

“For very small businesses needing just a virtual number, simple and no nasty contracts.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Business phones · negative 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.

“Deceptive Billing Practices... poorly suited for any team looking to grow.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Business phones · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Grasshopper, over the 45 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Grasshopper was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Nextiva32 of 4514Not among the top eight

RingCentral28 of 459Not among the top eight

Zoom Phone26 of 458Not among the top eight

Dialpad25 of 452Not among the top eight

Google Voice24 of 454Not among the top eight

Ooma Office18 of 452Not among the top eight

Quo9 of 451Not among the top eight

Microsoft Teams Phone9 of 450Not among the top eight

8x88 of 450Not among the top eight

OpenPhone6 of 452Not 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 Grasshopper. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 41 of the 45 answers that named Grasshopper and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

nextiva.com25

cloudtalk.io23

quo.com17

business.com15

dialpad.com15

thenetworkinstallers.com15

krispcall.com13

getvoip.com12

crazyegg.com11

expertmarket.com11

157 of the 157 domain citations in answers naming Grasshopper came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

nextiva.com/blog/business-phone-plans.html20

thenetworkinstallers.com/blog/business-phone-system-comparison13

business.com/categories/business-phone-systems12

cloudtalk.io/blog/phone-system-for-small-business11

crazyegg.com/blog/best-business-phone-systems11

expertmarket.com/phone-systems/small-business10

krispcall.com/blog/business-phone-systems10

quo.com/blog/best-small-business-phone-systems10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

grasshopper.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Grasshopper takes 2% of first choices and RingCentral takes 29%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “business phone system”

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not in the top ten

Position for “business phone systems”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 201,000 a month (“grasshopper”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 21,740 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 659,964 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 19,089 · 1,271 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 5,182
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 4 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

118+ ads · 98 text, 13 video, 7 image · 118 shown in the last 30 days

First shown July 2023, as GoTo Technologies USA, LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 14 in the year, 104 before. 2 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 12 of 75 in business phones

Segment leader

29%

RingCentral

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 45 answers
Its own site cited: in 41 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on grasshopper.com

908

subdomains included

Content

552

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

30 · 8

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	512	8	2026-09-23	Business phones
Comparison	18	0	2026-05-11
Glossary or explainer	14	1	2026-09-18
Template or tool	2	0	2018-08-18
Podcast or video	2	0	2019-08-15
Case study	1	undated
Webinar or virtual event	1	0	2010-03-22
Report or ebook	1	0	2011-05-07
News or press	1	0	2025-04-21

Most recent

2026-09-23Best ai tools for solopreneurs blog
2026-09-18What is openphone key pricing and features information glossary or explainer
2026-09-11Shared number for small businesses blog
2026-09-085 best virtual phone systems small businesses blog
2026-08-03Word of mouth marketing blog
2026-07-31How to become a freelancer blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page grasshopper.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Follow Grasshopper

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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The company

Grasshopper is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The best business phone app for entrepreneurs.
grasshopper.com
For: entrepreneurs; small business owners
grasshopper.com
Price stated: Plans start as low as $14/month. grasshopper.com
Starting price: 14 grasshopper.com
Free plan or trial: Try Grasshopper free for 7 days grasshopper.com
Customers named: Offshore ReliefPro ResumeHome MaintenanceAccountantRetail ManagementPersonal ChefDestination by DesignNorthwest Skills
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, certifications, hosting

What Grasshopper's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: grasshopper.com, grasshopper.com/pricing, grasshopper.com/features/apps, grasshopper.com/resources/customer-stories, grasshopper.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Grasshopper'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 Grasshopper, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

where Grasshopper 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 Grasshopper, 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.