Fathom vs BlackLine
Zero of twelve models named Fathom first on the direct prompt; zero named BlackLine. Fathom was named by nine of the twelve models and BlackLine by ten and Fathom carries 13 labels and BlackLine 14, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in nine categories this edition.
Named in twelve categories this edition.
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; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the financial consolidation page.
By framing
FathomFirst choices, of twelve modelsBlackLine
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | ||||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | ||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | ||||||
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | |||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | ||||
| Mistral Small | | | ||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | |||||
| Llama 4 Maverick | | |||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | |||
| Kimi K2 | | |||||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | |||||
| MiniMax M2.5 |
Fathom BlackLine first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Fathom on the left and BlackLine on the right.The direct prompt
Neither was the first choice, one was named
2 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
10 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Fathom14%#2 of 10BlackLine0%#– of 10Fathom2%#7 of 13BlackLine2%#8 of 13Fathom0%#– of 11BlackLine0%#7 of 11What the models said about Fathom
No label in this category carried a quote.
What the models said about BlackLine
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“I'd usually recommend BlackLine Financial Close / Consolidation if your main goal is to automate multi-entity close” GPT-5.4 mini · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.