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Microsoft Teams Phone

89Judge labels
20First choices
4Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
31% in Business phones for enterprise buyers
Rank 7 of 75 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 10% of its 21 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Microsoft Teams Phone →
By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.
In business phones · 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 Microsoft Teams Phone 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 rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Business phone systemsIT operations and endpoint3%7 of 7510%21accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Microsoft Teams Phone 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 Microsoft Teams Phone across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501012
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash12104
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash12003
Kimi K201012
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B01001

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
Direct11 labels2
Paraphrase26 labels8
Comparative19 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained8 labels6
Scale-constrained13 labels4
Negative12 labels4not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative89 labels in all, every segment counted; 20 of the 26 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-Around Choice: Microsoft Teams ... Teams is almost invariably the correct choice.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Business phones · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“The default choice if you are deeply embedded in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Business phones · scale prompt · first choice
“if your company is already committed to the Microsoft ecosystem, Microsoft Teams is a natural fit and more cost-effective” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Business phones · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“If you use Microsoft 365, consider if you want Microsoft Teams Phone (which consolidates chat, calls, and meetings)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Business phones · scale 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.

“Limitation: Poor fax capabilities—avoid if you need to send/receive faxes” Kimi K2 · Business phones · negative prompt · hard negative
“The configuration complexity of platforms like Microsoft Teams Phone or RingCentral can be significant overhead for a 15-person professional services firm” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Business phones · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Teams Phone, over the 89 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Teams Phone was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Cisco Webex Calling21 of 891Not among the top eight
Vonage14 of 890Not among the top eight
Cisco Webex13 of 890Not among the top eight
Avaya11 of 890Not 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 Microsoft Teams Phone. 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 75 of the 89 answers that named Microsoft Teams Phone and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertmarket.com39
ringcentral.com37
nextiva.com35
getvoip.com31
cloudtalk.io22
techrepublic.com21
forbes.com20
zoom.com20
crazyegg.com19
justcall.io19

263 of the 263 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Teams Phone came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Microsoft Teams Phone stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
2,400 a month (“microsoft teams phone”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
471 a month
Its own site
It sits on Microsoft's site (microsoft.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
3%
rank 7 of 75 in business phones
Segment leader
29%
RingCentral
First choices
20 across its categories
Named in
89 answers
Its own site cited
in 75 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

Names read as Microsoft Teams Phone

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Microsoft Teams Phone; a claim can dispute any of them.
Microsoft Teams 4Microsoft Teams (as a phone system) 1Microsoft Teams (with Teams Phone) 1Microsoft Teams Phone System 1

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The company

Microsoft is the company behind Microsoft Teams Phone.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Добавете телефонни услуги в облака към Teams, за да получите всички функции на стационарен телефон – да провеждате, получавате, прехвърляте и записвате разговори.
For
Se requiere un plan de Microsoft 365 o una licencia de Teams elegible
Price stated
€8.70 потребител/месец, годишно плащане microsoft.com/bg-bg/microsoft-365/business/no-teams-plans-and-pricing
Not stated on the pages read
Free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Microsoft Teams Phone's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: microsoft.com/bg-bg/microsoft-365/business/no-teams-plans-and-pricing, microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-365/business/no-teams-plans-and-pricing, microsoft.com/es-es/microsoft-365/business/no-teams-plans-and-pricing, microsoft.com/fi-fi/microsoft-365/business/no-teams-plans-and-pricing, microsoft.com/fr-fr/microsoft-365/business/no-teams-plans-and-pricing. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

  • where Microsoft Teams Phone 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 Microsoft Teams Phone, 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.
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