Which field service platforms do AI answer engines actually recommend?

When an SMB buyer asks an AI assistant which field service software to buy, a shortlist comes back. We asked 44 different phrasings of that question across 2 engines, 88 answers in total, and counted every product named. This is the result. Nobody paid to be on it, and no vendor list was written in advance — the 98 vendors below are simply everyone the engines named.

Run 3 August 2026 Questions 44 Answers 88 Vendors named 98 Top-10 repeatability 10/10

Free to read, raw data included.

Is one of these field service management platforms yours?

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Two conditions on every number below

These 44 questions are one family of phrasings and every number below is conditional on them. A differently worded family about the same products — a different size of buyer, a different budget, a different constraint — is a different measurement and can come back naming a different set of products. All 44 questions are printed in full below, so you can see exactly what was asked before you read what came back. We have measured how big that can get, on two of our own boards: SuiteCRM is named in 83 of the 132 answers on /c/crmctx/ and in none of the 132 on /c/crm/ — same products, same day, same extraction, asked differently.
The engine columns below are not one instrument. Perplexity (sonar) searches the web while it answers and returned the sources used beside every one of those 44 answers — that column is what gets retrieved. ChatGPT (gpt-5.5) was called through its API with no tools and the near-empty system prompt quoted in the method below, so it answers out of the model’s own weights — not one of those 44 answers came back with a source. That column is what the model already remembers. Both are worth counting and they are not the same measurement: a product can be named often by what the models remember and rarely by what they retrieve, or the reverse, and the totals in the Answers column add the two together.

The leaderboard

“Answers” is how many of the 88 answers named that product. Share is the same number as a percentage. The two right-hand columns split it by engine. Every row has its own link — the # beside a vendor name gives you something like connexion.me/c/fsm/#jobber. Click a vendor's name to see which of the 44 questions named them, and click one of those to read the answer it was counted from, word for word.

#VendorAnswers ShareChatGPTPerplexity
1Jobber#7585.2%3936
2Housecall Pro#6776.1%3829
3ServiceTitan#4551.1%3114
4Workiz#2831.8%199
5Service Fusion#2427.3%186
6FieldPulse#2225.0%1012
7ServiceM8#2022.7%128
8FieldEdge#1820.5%144
9Kickserv#1820.5%108
10Connecteam#1719.3%314
11QuoteIQ#1112.5%011
12Salesforce Field Service#910.2%54
13simPRO#89.1%44
14Tradify#78.0%70
15MaintainX#55.7%32
16ServiceTrade#55.7%32
17Yardbook#55.7%23
18Business Genie#44.5%04
19JobNimbus#44.5%22
20ServiceMax#44.5%13
21Zoho FSM#44.5%31
22BuildOps#33.4%21
23Fieldpoint#33.4%03
24Fiix#33.4%21
25Joist#33.4%30
26Limble#33.4%21
27UpKeep#33.4%21
28AccuLynx#22.3%11
29Aspire Crew Control#22.3%02
30Field Ascend#22.3%02
31Field Promax#22.3%02
32FieldCamp#22.3%02
33FieldRoutes#22.3%11
34GorillaDesk#22.3%11
35IFS#22.3%11
36Joblogic#22.3%20
37mHelpDesk#22.3%20
38Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service#22.3%11
39Odoo Field Service#22.3%11
40PestPac#22.3%11
41Roofr#22.3%11
42Skedulo#22.3%11
43Skimmer#22.3%11
44Workyard#22.3%02
45Zuper#22.3%20
46Arrivy#11.1%01
47Asolvi#11.1%01
48Aspire#11.1%10
49BigChange#11.1%10
50BlueFolder#11.1%01
51CleanTelligent#11.1%10
52ClockShark#11.1%10
53Commusoft#11.1%10
54Contractor Foreman#11.1%10
55CrewOS#11.1%01
56Deelo#11.1%01
57Dusk FSM#11.1%01
58Dusk FSM Launch#11.1%01
59Dynamics 365 Field Service#11.1%10
60Enerflo#11.1%10
61Explorer Software#11.1%01
62Field Complete#11.1%10
63Fieldaware#11.1%01
64Fieldtics#11.1%01
65Fieldy#11.1%01
66FMX#11.1%10
67GoCanvas#11.1%10
68Hippo CMMS#11.1%10
69IFS Cloud Field Service Management#11.1%01
70IFS/ServiceMax#11.1%10
71Infraspeak#11.1%01
72Inspect Point#11.1%10
73Intuit Field Service Management#11.1%01
74Janitorial Manager#11.1%10
75Jonas#11.1%10
76LMN#11.1%10
77Loc8#11.1%10
78Maintenance Connection#11.1%01
79Payaca#11.1%01
80Pool Office Manager#11.1%10
81PoolBrain#11.1%01
82SAP Field Service Management#11.1%01
83Scoop Solar#11.1%10
84Septic Management Solutions#11.1%01
85Service Autopilot#11.1%10
86ServiceChannel#11.1%01
87ServiceCore#11.1%10
88ServiceNow Field Service Management#11.1%10
89Shifton#11.1%01
90Shifton Service#11.1%01
91Smart Service#11.1%10
92Swept#11.1%10
93Synchroteam#11.1%10
94Uptick#11.1%01
95WennSoft#11.1%10
96Workever#11.1%01
97ZenMaid#11.1%01
98Zentive#11.1%01

What is free, and what is for sale

Everything above is free and stays free — the leaderboard, the method, all 88 raw answers and the machine-readable ranking, published in full at the bottom of this page. No vendor paid to be listed, no vendor can pay to move, and nothing here goes behind a login later.

What is for sale is one vendor's row, watched: $9.99 a month to be told when your rank moves, who took your mentions, and which phrasings started or stopped naming you — the board is re-run monthly and you get what changed. A one-off $29.99 deep report on a single row is the other option. What is in each →

Method

Every claim on this page is reproducible from the files linked at the bottom.

The engines

ChatGPT (gpt-5.5), Perplexity (sonar). Each was called through its public API with a near-empty system prompt — “answer the user's question directly and concisely” — and nothing else. The engines were not asked to produce a list, rank anything, or name vendors. Steering them toward a list would have manufactured the thing being measured.

The questions

44 distinct phrasings of one purchase decision, written before any measurement was run. No vendor name appears in any of them.

  1. What is the best field service management software for a small business?
  2. Best software for a plumbing company to schedule jobs and invoice customers
  3. We're an HVAC company with 12 technicians and we still dispatch on a whiteboard. What software should we buy?
  4. Recommend field service software for a residential electrical contractor.
  5. affordable field service management software for small contractors
  6. What software do small home services businesses use to manage jobs?
  7. Best job scheduling and dispatch software for a 20-person service company
  8. Cheapest field service software that isn't terrible
  9. Field service management software for a one-person handyman business
  10. What's a good FSM platform for a mid-market service contractor?
  11. Which field service software is easiest to set up for a small company?
  12. Best software for a lawn care and landscaping company to manage crews and billing
  13. We need field service software with a free plan or a cheap starter tier. What are the options?
  14. Top field service management software 2026
  15. What software should a pest control company use for routes, jobs and invoicing?
  16. Best field service app for technicians working offline in the field
  17. Field service management software with good quoting and estimates for small contractors
  18. What is the best field service software under $200 a month?
  19. Recommend service business software for a 50-person commercial cleaning company.
  20. Best software for a small roofing contractor to run estimates and jobs
  21. Which field service platforms give small contractors the best mobile app?
  22. We're outgrowing spreadsheets and paper work orders for our service calls. What should we move to?
  23. Best field service software for a garage door and appliance repair business
  24. field service management software for a small pool service company
  25. What field service software integrates with QuickBooks for a small contractor?
  26. Simple job management software for a service business owner who works in the field too
  27. Which field service software is best for recurring maintenance contracts?
  28. Best software for a small septic and drain company to schedule and bill
  29. What work order management software works well for a small facilities maintenance team?
  30. Field service software with good reporting for a growing service company
  31. Best field service management software for a solar installation company
  32. What's the easiest field service software for non-technical technicians to learn?
  33. Recommend software that handles dispatch, invoicing and payments for a home services business.
  34. Which field service platforms have the best pricing for companies under 50 employees?
  35. best field service software small company
  36. What software do 10-person service companies use to track jobs and technicians?
  37. I run a 100-person mechanical contracting firm. What field service software fits us?
  38. Best software for scheduling technicians and tracking their time in the field
  39. What field service software should I choose if we only run a few jobs a day?
  40. Modern alternatives to legacy field service management software for small contractors
  41. Best field service software for a fire and security systems installer
  42. What field service management software has the best customer communication features?
  43. Which field service software is best value for money for a small contractor?
  44. Best all-in-one software to run a small home services business end to end

How the vendor list was built

Each of the 88 answers was read back and every named product extracted. The vendor list is discovered: a product appears here if and only if an engine named it. Counted are field service management platforms, job scheduling and dispatch tools, work-order and service-business management systems, and broader suites whose field service module was named. Excluded, even when named: accounting and bookkeeping packages, payroll tools, payment processors, generic sales CRMs, lead-generation marketplaces that sell job leads, GPS fleet tracking and telematics with no work orders, route-optimisation-only tools, construction takeoff and estimating-only tools, generic project management tools, appointment-booking widgets, and companies named only as an example contractor.

Spelling variants of one product are folded together, and a trailing “by company” is dropped. This run collapsed 15 spellings onto 7 of the rows below: “IFS/ServiceMax”, “IFS / ServiceMax” and “IFS Field Service Management / ServiceMax” are one row — the one the table prints as IFS/ServiceMax. An edition name is folded into its product when it is that product’s name followed by a further word, and the plain name is at least three times as common. This run folded 9 such names, among them “Jobber Core” counts as Jobber and “Housecall Pro Basic” counts as Housecall Pro. A name that merely begins with the same letters is a different product and keeps its own row. No pair was merged by hand in this category: every fold above is the rule applied mechanically, with no human judgement about who is who.

Beyond those folds a product is counted as the engines spelled it, and two rows in the table are never merged into one. When a product has been renamed or acquired and the engines still answer with both names, both names keep their own row: this page carries no hand-maintained list of who is now who, because that list would be a human claim about a mechanical count and nothing here could check it. What it has instead is the answers. Where an answer itself writes two of the rows below as one product renamed — the construction “X (formerly Y)” — the line beside those rows quotes that sentence and gives the overlap and the total, so the union is on the page. Nothing else produces that line. Two rows being named in the same answers does not, however often: the engines answer in shortlists, so the leaders of a category are named together whatever they are called. No answer in this run wrote two rows below that way, so no row below carries that line.

A product is counted once per answer, however many times that answer mentions it.

Is this stable, or is it noise?

The entire run was repeated a second time, same 44 questions, same engines, independent calls. The top ten came back 10/10 identical. What moved: by position, Service Fusion was 5 in run A and 9 in run B; FieldPulse was 6 in run A and 5 in run B; ServiceM8 was 7 in run A and 6 in run B; Kickserv was 9 in run A and 7 in run B. Run B named 97 vendors over 88 answers against run A's 98. The tail moves; the head does not.

A leaderboard whose top ten reshuffles between runs would not be worth publishing, so this check was run before the page was, and the page ships only because it passed.

What this is not

This measures what two answer engines said on 3 August 2026, in response to these questions, through their APIs. It is not a quality ranking, not a review, and not advice on which field service platform to buy. A product can be excellent and rank low here — that gap is the point.

The raw data

All 88 answers, verbatim, one JSON object per line: run A · run B. The per-answer extracted product names: run A · run B. Machine-readable ranking: ranking.json.

What Perplexity was reading. It is the only one of these engines that returns a source list, and the markers in its answers above — [1], [2] — point into it. Every URL it cited, with the title, date and the excerpt it actually retrieved, one JSON object per answer: run A · run B. Join on index to the answers file, and read [n] as citations[n-1]. Perplexity returned a source list on 44 of its 44 answers. ChatGPT returned no sources at all — no citation, grounding or search-result field of any kind appears anywhere in its API response, on any of the 44 answers it gave. That is a fact about the engine, not a gap in this page.

The sources behind the answers

Run A's 44 Perplexity answers cited 854 URLs across 220 distinct domains. Below are the 67 that were cited in three or more separate answers. Citations counts every URL from that domain, so a domain cited three times in one answer counts three times; Answers is how many of the 44 answers cited it at all.

DomainCitationsAnswers
reddit.com6640
youtube.com4933
wifitalents.com3127
g2.com3120
capterra.com3025
myquoteiq.com2417
connecteam.com2221
gartner.com1818
servicetitan.com1818
gitnux.org1816
kickserv.com1816
fieldpulse.com1717
zendesk.com1717
buildops.com1714
learn.g2.com1515
workiz.com1212
fieldservicesoftware.io119
arrivy.com1010
field-ascend.com99
getapp.com99
simprogroup.com99
businessgenieapp.com88
housecallpro.com88
workyard.com77
getjobber.com76
constructionplacements.com66
f6s.com66
fieldboss.com66
servicefusion.com66
teambridge.com66
coastapp.com65
facebook.com65
fieldcamp.ai65
fieldforcetracker.com65
fieldserviceguide.com65
camcode.com55
easyfieldservices.com55
guideflow.com55
infotech.com55
mymanagementguide.com55
servicebusinessacademy.org55
gpsinsight.com44
msidata.com44
safetyculture.com44
salesforce.com44
servicetrade.com44
softwareadvice.com44
softwareconnect.com44
sourceforge.net44
worldmetrics.org44
zipdo.co44
joinhomebase.com43
shifton.com43
cirasync.com33
comparesoft.com33
deelo.ai33
fieldpoint.net33
fieldtics.com33
fieldvibe.com33
fieldworkhq.com33
play.google.com33
quickbase.com33
reachoutsuite.com33
servbuilder.com33
techaz.org33
techtarget.com33
timelinxsoftware.com33

A domain missing from this table was cited in fewer than three answers, or was never cited at all — the run A file linked above is the complete list either way, and it is the only way to tell those two apart. Cited is not endorsed: a page the engine retrieved is not a page that recommended anyone, and this counts what was read, not what it said.

The answer a vendor panel shows you is read straight out of the run A file linked above — the page fetches the one line it needs and displays it unaltered, so what you read there and what you get by downloading the file are the same bytes.

What one line of each file holds, and the terms you may re-use them under — the raw answers may be re-used in any medium, commercially and inside open-source software, with attribution.