| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business phone systems | IT operations and endpoint | 3% | 7 of 75 | 10% | 21 | accepted challenger |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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
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
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.
263 of the 263 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Teams Phone came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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.
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.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
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.
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 Microsoft Teams Phone'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 Microsoft Teams Phone, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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: