Every category where a model named SPS Commerce 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
EDI platforms	Data platform	15%	3 of 93	31%	49	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SPS Commerce 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 SPS Commerce 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	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	2	2	0	1	5
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	1	0	2	6
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	2	4
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1	2	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	1	3
Kimi K2	1	2	1	1	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	3	0	1	1	5
MiniMax M2.5	0	3	0	1	4
GPT-6 Luna	1	2	0	1	4
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	0	0	1	3

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

Direct19 labels3

Paraphrase16 labels5

Comparative26 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained15 labels1

Scale-constrained18 labels4

Negative28 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative122 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 18 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.

“If your company sells primarily to retailers: Go with SPS Commerce — the prebuilt integrations and compliance management will save months of implementation time.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · EDI · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“SPS Commerce / TrueCommerce: Strong fits if you want a fully outsourced managed service with a massive pre-existing retail network and strong ERP integrations” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EDI · scale prompt · first choice

“SPS Commerce has one of the largest prebuilt retail networks in the world... Go with a fully managed provider like SPS Commerce” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EDI · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“The absolute giant of retail EDI. They boast a massive pre-built network of over 100,000 retail, grocery, and logistics partners.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EDI · comparative 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.

“It's recommended to avoid SPS Commerce due to its lengthy implementation process, arbitrary pricing, and slow customer support.” Llama 4 Maverick · EDI · negative prompt · hard negative

“SPS Commerce (Mixed Reviews) While popular, users report: Slow support and "terrible and ancient tech"” Kimi K2 · EDI · negative prompt · hard negative

“Multiple Reddit users strongly recommend avoiding it - one simply states "SPS - stay away"” MiniMax M2.5 · EDI · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid per-transaction/VAN fees (e.g., some Cleo at $200+ or SPS Commerce custom)” Grok 4.1 Fast · EDI · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SPS Commerce, over the 122 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SPS Commerce was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TrueCommerce EDI102 of 12210Compare →

Cleo Integration Cloud84 of 12221Compare →

Orderful71 of 12221Compare →

OpenText Trading Grid35 of 1221Not among the top eight

Boomi B2B/EDI Management30 of 1221Not among the top eight

Celigo Integrator.io28 of 1223Not among the top eight

IBM Sterling21 of 1224Not among the top eight

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator14 of 1223Not among the top eight

Elevate13 of 1224Not among the top eight

Jitterbit EDI10 of 1221Not 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 SPS Commerce. 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 114 of the 122 answers that named SPS Commerce and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cleo.com87

orderful.com63

g2.com62

jitterbit.com56

learn.g2.com48

capterra.com47

truecommerce.com43

reddit.com30

softwareadvice.com30

sftptogo.com26

492 of the 492 domain citations in answers naming SPS Commerce came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

jitterbit.com/blog/best-edi-platforms53

learn.g2.com/best-edi-software48

cleo.com/blog/best-edi-solution-providers35

g2.com/categories/electronic-data-interchange-edi33

cleo.com/blog/best-edi-software-providers30

capterra.com/resources/best-edi-software-ease-of-use-smbs26

cleo.com/blog/best-edi-platform-mid-size-company20

orderful.com/blog/best-edi-providers-small-businesses-202620

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

spscommerce.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, SPS Commerce takes 15% of first choices and TrueCommerce EDI takes 32%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “edi platform”

Position for “edi platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 22,200 a month (“sps commerce”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 293 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 163,808 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 9,095 · 1,236 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 5,488
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 120 text · 58 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as SPS Commerce, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 35 in the year, 85 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

15%

rank 3 of 93 in EDI

Segment leader

32%

TrueCommerce EDI

First choices: 13 across its categories
Named in: 122 answers
Its own site cited: in 114 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on spscommerce.com

1,339

subdomains included

Content

271

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

123 · 10

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	125	8	2026-09-28	EDI
Case study	94	12	2026-10-02	EDI
News or press	21	6	2026-09-15	EDI
Conference or event	16	4	2026-10-02
Comparison	6	0	2026-06-12	EDI
Glossary or explainer	4	0	2026-06-03	EDI
Report or ebook	2	0	2022-06-01
Webinar or virtual event	1	undated		EDI
Template or tool	1	0	2026-02-13
Podcast or video	1	0	2019-06-20

Most recent

2026-10-02Future of supply chain toronto 2026 conference or event
2026-10-02Valley industries case study case study
2026-10-02Spreetail customer story case study
2026-09-28Safety stock blind spot blog
2026-09-25Porter logistics blog
2026-09-18Enterprise supply chain automation guide blog

Events in person

Upcoming

November 17, 2026Future of Supply Chain Roadshow — Toronto, ONSPS Commerce, Toronto, Canada · hosts

Last twelve months

August 25, 2026Future of Supply Chain Roadshow — Rogers, ARSupply Chain Hall of Fame, Rogers, US · hosted

As the event pages on spscommerce.com state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page spscommerce.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.

Names read as SPS Commerce

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SPS Commerce; a claim can dispute any of them.

SPS Commerce (Fulfillment EDI) 1

Follow SPS Commerce

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.

The company

SPS Commerce is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: leading EDI, sales & item data company offering reliable solutions for retail businesses
spscommerce.com
For: retail businesses
spscommerce.com
Price stated: Get a free demo now! spscommerce.com
Free plan or trial: free demo spscommerce.com
Integrations claimed: 100 spscommerce.com
Certifications: ISO/IEC 27001SOC 1 Type 2SOC 2 Type 2
Customers named: TargetWalmartThe Home DepotWalgreensCanadian TireKrogerLidlWegmans
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, hosting

What SPS Commerce's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: spscommerce.com, trust.spscommerce.com, spscommerce.com/products, spscommerce.com/case-studies, spscommerce.com/products/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of 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 SPS Commerce'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 SPS Commerce, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where SPS Commerce 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 SPS Commerce, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where SPS Commerce is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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SPS Commerce is among the products AI models recommend first in EDI platforms this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/edi-platforms/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/sps-commerce--edi-platforms-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in EDI platforms, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the EDI platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/edi-platforms/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/sps-commerce--edi-platforms-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in EDI platforms, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the EDI platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/edi-platforms/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/sps-commerce--edi-platforms-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in EDI platforms, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the EDI platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.