# Lease accounting: what AI models recommend, September 2026

Finance AI Recommendation Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "lease accounting software" and as "ASC 842 and IFRS 16 compliance tool", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://finance-ai-index.com/accounting/lease-accounting/

**Standing:** FinQuery leads with 36% of first choices; verdict contested. 50 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FinQuery | 36% | 8% | 48 |
| 2 | iLeasePro | 12% | 6% | 17 |
| 3 | Visual Lease | 10% | 7% | 41 |
| 4 | EZLease | 10% | 3% | 29 |
| 5 | SOFT4Lessee | 6% | 0% | 10 |
| 6 | Trullion | 4% | 8% | 24 |
| 7 | Crunchafi | 2% | 7% | 15 |
| 8 | NetLease | 0% | 0% | 17 |
| 9 | MRI ProLease | 0% | 5% | 19 |
| 10 | DebtBook | 0% | 0% | 11 |
| 11 | Occupier | 0% | 0% | 10 |
| 12 | Nakisa Lease Administration | 0% | 9% | 11 |

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: SOFT4Lessee; alternatives EZLease, FinQuery, Trullion, Visual Lease
- GPT-5.4 mini: FinQuery; alternatives Nakisa Lease Administration, Sage Intacct, UGAAP, Yardi Corom
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: FinQuery; alternatives NetLease, SOFT4Lessee, Trullion, Visual Lease
- Perplexity Sonar: FinQuery, Spacebase; alternatives EZLease, SOFT4Lessee, Visual Lease
- Grok 4.1 Fast: FinQuery; alternatives EZLease, Visual Lease
- Mistral Small: FinQuery, SOFT4Lessee; alternatives EZLease, Trullion, Visual Lease
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: FinQuery; alternatives Crunchafi, LeaseCrunch, NetLease, Visual Lease
- Llama 4 Maverick: iLeasePro; alternatives EZLease, LeaseAccelerator, Leasecake, SOFT4Lessee
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: FinQuery; alternatives EZLease, Spacebase, iLeasePro
- Kimi K2: FinQuery; alternatives EZLease, iLeasePro
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: FinQuery, Visual Lease; alternatives DebtBook, SOFT4Lessee, iLeasePro
- MiniMax M2.5: FinQuery, Visual Lease; alternatives Spacebase

## Sources the answers cite

66 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- softwareconnect.com: 41 answers, 71 citations
- debtbook.com: 38 answers, 41 citations
- capterra.com: 32 answers, 52 citations
- blackowlsystems.com: 28 answers, 34 citations
- trullion.com: 28 answers, 31 citations
- getapp.com: 26 answers, 35 citations
- guideflow.com: 25 answers, 25 citations
- g2.com: 24 answers, 52 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://softwareconnect.com/roundups/best-lease-accounting-software (40 answers)
- https://debtbook.com/blog/best-lease-accounting-software (35 answers)
- https://capterra.com/lease-accounting-software (25 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/lease-accounting-software (25 answers)
- https://trullion.com/blog/lease-accounting-software-solutions-for-asc-842-ifrs-16-2026-guide (24 answers)
- https://acquisition-international.com/best-lease-accounting-software-of-2026-from-compliance-to-cashflow (22 answers)
- https://blackowlsystems.com/best-lease-accounting-software-in-2026-compared (22 answers)
- https://gartner.com/reviews/market/lease-accounting-and-management-software (21 answers)
- https://softwareconnect.com/roundups/best-lease-management-software (18 answers)
- https://finantrix.com/buyer-guides/lease-accounting-administration-software (17 answers)

## Warned against

- Microsoft Excel: 7 of 7 labels negative. "Spreadsheets / Excel: sources warn they create data integrity, version-control, security, and compliance risks, and they are poor for large or complex lease portfolios." (Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt)
- Spreadsheets: 4 of 4 labels negative. "Spreadsheets / Excel: sources warn they create data integrity, version-control, security, and compliance risks, and they are poor for large or complex lease portfolios." (Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt)
- FinQuery: 4 of 48 labels negative. "LeaseQuery (FinQuery): "Irreversible changes" after a lease is approved, forced re-approval workflows for minor corrections, limited vehicle entry options" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt)
- CoStar Real Estate Manager: 2 of 7 labels negative. "Insufficient automation, limited reporting, and poor integration with finance systems... Steer clear of tools that have been widely replaced or discontinued (e.g., older CoStar lease modules" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://finance-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://finance-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Finance AI Recommendation Index, September 2026 Edition, finance-ai-index.com.