Finance AI Index
Index Accounting and close September 2026 Edition

ERP systems

Asked as “ERP system”, and as “enterprise resource planning software for finance”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 47 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Contested
38% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Oracle NetSuite38%4%49endorsed leader
02Odoo19%10%30accepted challenger
03Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central15%5%38accepted challenger
04Sage Intacct11%3%34accepted challenger
05ERPNext11%6%16accepted challenger
06Acumatica2%9%45accepted challenger
07Zoho One2%0%12accepted challenger
08Microsoft Dynamics 3652%0%16accepted challenger
Show the six products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
14Epicor0%42%12criticized challenger
11SAP S/4HANA0%33%27criticized challenger
13Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP0%31%16criticized challenger
12Infor0%20%10accepted challenger
10SAP Business One0%18%11accepted challenger
09Workday0%0%12accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
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01Oracle NetSuite38%
02Odoo19%
03Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central15%
04Sage Intacct11%
05ERPNext11%
06Acumatica2%
07Zoho One2%
08Microsoft Dynamics 3652%
09Workday0%
10SAP Business One0%
11SAP S/4HANA0%
12Infor0%
13Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP0%
14Epicor0%

02What they warned about

Four of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2 and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Epicor
42%
5 of 12 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Older versions of Syteline and Epicor - these are also outdated ERP systems that may no longer be supported.” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
SAP S/4HANA
33%
9 of 27 labels negative · 5 of 12 models
“**High cost and complexity** – Licensing and implementation services are among the most expensive in the ERP market... Mid‑sized companies may find it overkill.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
SAP ECC
80%
4 of 5 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Macola, SAP R3/ECC, and Point.Man - these are outdated ERP systems that may no longer be supported by their publishers.” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
SAP
67%
4 of 6 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Tops "worst ERP" lists on Reddit and complaint volumes... Avoid if you're SMB/mid-market or risk-averse.” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

59 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 672 links across 218 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

41 answers · 79 citations · 10 models
20 answers · 27 citations · 9 models
17 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
15 answers · 15 citations · 9 models
vendor site · NetSuite14 answers · 15 citations · 9 models
14 answers · 15 citations · 8 models
13 answers · 15 citations · 7 models
13 answers · 14 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Spendesk13 answers · 13 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Consolidate.io11 answers · 12 citations · 8 models
10 answers · 20 citations · 8 models
10 answers · 11 citations · 7 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best ERP system for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which enterprise resource planning software for finance would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top ERP systems and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best ERP system for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a ERP system. What should we look at?”Negative“Which ERP systems should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceagainst: Oracle FLEXCUBE, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
GPT-5.4 miniOracle NetSuite
Two alternativesEpicor, Microsoft Dynamics 365
against: SAP Business ByDesign, SAP S/4HANA, Sage Intacct
Sage IntacctChanged
Four alternativesMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP Cloud ERP / S/4HANA finance, Sage X3 / Sage ERP
no first choiceERPNext, Odoo
Two alternativesMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Zoho One
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashOracle NetSuite
Four alternativesAcumatica, Epicor Kinetic, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage Intacct
Sage IntacctChanged
Three alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite
against: Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA
no first choiceERPNext, Zoho One
Two alternativesDolibarr, Odoo
against: Acumatica
Acumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle NetSuite
Three alternativesIFS Cloud, Infor CloudSuite, Sage Intacct
against: ERPNext, Epicor, Infor, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, Odoo, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Oracle NetSuite, QuickBooks, SAP S/4HANA
Perplexity SonarOracle NetSuite
Four alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP S/4HANA, Sage Intacct
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business CentralChanged
Four alternativesAcumatica, Oracle NetSuite, SAP S/4HANA, Sage Intacct
no first choiceOdoo
Two alternativesERPNext, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
against: SAP Business One
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.1 FastMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Five alternativesAcumatica, Epicor Kinetic, Oracle NetSuite, SAP S/4HANA, Sage Intacct
Oracle NetSuiteChanged
One alternativeSage Intacct
no first choiceERPNext, Odoo
One alternativeZoho One
against: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite
no first choiceagainst: Baan IV, Dynamics NAV/GP, Epicor, Infor, Lawson M3 10.1, Oracle Legacy, SAP, SYSPRO
Mistral SmallOracle NetSuite
Three alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP Business One
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuiteChanged
Two alternativesAcumatica, Sage Intacct
no first choiceOdoo
Four alternativesERPNext, Katana, Sage 50cloud, Zoho One
no first choiceagainst: Epicor, IBM, Macola, Microsoft, Oracle, Point.Man, SAP ECC, Sage, Syteline
DeepSeek V4 FlashMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Three alternativesAcumatica, Oracle NetSuite, SAP Business One / S/4HANA Public Cloud
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business CentralHeld
Two alternativesOracle NetSuite, Sage Intacct
no first choiceOdoo
Three alternativesERPNext, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Zoho One
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite
Four alternativesAcumatica, Epicor Kinetic, SAP Business One, Sage Intacct
against: SAP S/4HANA
against: Epicor, Microsoft AX, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Odoo, Oracle, Oracle PeopleSoft, SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA
Llama 4 MaverickOracle NetSuite
Three alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP Business One
Oracle NetSuiteHeld
Four alternativesAcumatica, Flow ERP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage Intacct
no first choiceOdoo
Four alternativesERPNext, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage Intacct, Zoho One
no first choiceagainst: Epicor, MACH, Macola, Point.Man, SAP ECC, Syteline
Qwen 3.7 FlashOracle NetSuite
Four alternativesAcumatica, Infor CloudSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage Intacct
Sage IntacctChanged
Three alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite
against: SAP S/4HANA
no first choiceOdoo
Three alternativesERPNext, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Zoho One
against: Acumatica
Oracle NetSuite
Four alternativesAcumatica, IFS Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage X3
against: QuickBooks, SAP S/4HANA, TallyPrime
against: Acumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Odoo, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle PeopleSoft, QuickBooks, SAP, Sage, Sage MAS
Kimi K2Oracle NetSuite
Two alternativesMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP Business One
Oracle NetSuite, Sage IntacctChanged
Two alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
against: SAP Business One
SAP
Three alternativesMicrosoft Dynamics 365, Oracle, Oracle NetSuite
ERPNext, Odoo
Three alternativesSage 50cloud, Sage Intacct, Zoho One
no first choiceagainst: Oracle, SAPagainst: SAP ECC
GLM 4.7 FlashXOracle NetSuite
Four alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP S/4HANA, Sage Intacct
Oracle NetSuiteHeld
Three alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, Sage Intacct
against: SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA
Four alternativesMicrosoft Dynamics 365, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Oracle NetSuite, Workday
ERPNext
Two alternativesOdoo, Zoho One
against: Acumatica, Sage 50cloud
no first choiceagainst: Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA
MiniMax M2.5Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite
Three alternativesSAP Business One, Sage Intacct, Workday
Oracle NetSuite, Sage IntacctChanged
Two alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
no first choiceOdoo
Four alternativesERPNext, Katana, QuickBooks, Zoho One
no first choiceagainst: Macola, Oracle, Point.Man, SAP, Syteline
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:53no06 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:36no04 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:35yes1021 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:22yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:48yes3516 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:01yes53 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:55yes1821 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:53yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:29no024 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:07yes1024 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:02yes974 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:15yes514 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:18no04 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:22yes55 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:18yes1353 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:52yes208 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:26yes159 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:03yes55 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:49yes1215 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:30yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:36no031 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:39yes1427 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:01yes15175 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:33yes1041 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:27yes98 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:35yes78 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 20:09yes2230 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:16yes1810 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:25yes2516 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:39yes58 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:56yes1721 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:59yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:30yes524 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:48yes525 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:27yes1353 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:06yes515 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:46no05 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:17no04 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:34yes1917 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:18yes205 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:06yes1110 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:17yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:47yes910 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:43yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:57no029 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:54yes1529 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:54yes830 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:22yes517 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:25no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:56no09 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:21yes1424 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:46yes1910 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 17:58yes1812 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:53no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:33yes1521 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:26yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:01no030 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:28yes922 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:00yes20187 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:35yes519 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:55yes2713 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:23yes45 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:17yes24207 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:03yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:37yes3317 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:35yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:39yes2938 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:54yes59 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:38no033 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:43yes2939 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:50yes1961 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:53yes1034 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
Acumatica Cloud ERP read as Acumatica
Intuit/QuickBooks read as QuickBooks
NetSuite read as Oracle NetSuite
Netsuite read as Oracle NetSuite
Oracle Cloud ERP read as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle EBS read as Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle ERP Cloud read as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle Fusion read as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle Fusion Cloud read as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Tally read as TallyPrime
Unresolved, counted raw
Baan IV
Bridger Systems
Deltek Vantagepoint
Dynamics NAV/GP
FinancialForce
Infor CloudSuite / M3
Kronos
Lawson M3 10.1
Microsoft
Microsoft AX
OpenBravo
Oracle Legacy (E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards)
Oracle offerings
QAD
SAP Business One / S/4HANA Public Cloud
SAP Cloud ERP / S/4HANA finance
Sage 100/X3
Sage MAS
Sage X3 / Sage ERP
Unit4
Viewpoint
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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