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October 2026 Edition

October 2026 Edition

Published October 1, 2026. This page is the permanent record of the October 2026 Edition: the standing of every category as measured in it, under vendor table v2026-10.7. It is also the edition the site carries now.

57 categories · 14 models · 342 prompts · 4,788 answers · 24,542 judge labels, all published

The leaderboard

The first choice in all 57 categories · 45 unsettled
This edition, with filters →
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models. Each row opens that category's page for this edition.What the verdicts mean
Receivables and billing
B2B BNPL and net terms
Small business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Receivables and billing
Embedded payments platforms
Small business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Receivables and billing
Rebate management
Mid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Equity and corporate
Board portals
A different leader in every segment
Tax and compliance
AML and transaction monitoring
Small business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Accounting and close
SEC and disclosure reporting
Mid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Tax and compliance
Transfer pricing
Small business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Receivables and billing
Professional services automation
Small business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Receivables and billing
Merchants of record
One leader in all three segments
Accounting and close
Crypto accounting
Mid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Equity and corporate
Virtual data rooms
A different leader in every segment
Receivables and billing
Chargeback management
Small business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Treasury and cash
Stablecoin platforms
Mid-market and enterprise share a leader. Small business differs.
Spend and procurement
Telecom expense management
Small business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Receivables and billing
Payment orchestration platforms
Small business and mid-market share a leader. Enterprise differs.
Receivables and billing
Ecommerce fraud prevention
A different leader in every segment

Movement since September 2026

Between the September 2026 Edition and the October 2026 Edition the leader changed in thirteen of forty-one categories, three of them by more than the noise floor of 10 points. Thirty of 391 changes in first-choice share clear the floor. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison.
41Categories compared
391Products changed
30Moved past the floor
13Leader changes
4Verdict changes

Leader changes · 13, of which 3 cleared the floor

Wave→Zoho Invoice26%
New leader · moved

14 points clear of Wave's current 12%.

Names swapped within the floor · 10, read as unsettled

Verdict changes

Biggest movers in first-choice share

−2169% → 48%
MovedCleared the floor by 11 points · rank 1 of 61, unchanged
+2013% → 33%
MovedCleared the floor by 10 points · rank 2 → 1 of 96
+2018% → 38%
MovedCleared the floor by 10 points · rank 1 of 79, unchanged
−1919% → 0%
MovedCleared the floor by 9 points · rank 2 → 63 of 116
−1836% → 18%
MovedCleared the floor by 8 points · rank 1 → 2 of 94
−1525% → 10%
MovedCleared the floor by 5 points · rank 1 → 2 of 96
−1519% → 4%
MovedCleared the floor by 5 points · rank 3 → 7 of 50
−1433% → 18%
MovedCleared the floor by 4 points · rank 2 of 82, unchanged
+147% → 21%
MovedCleared the floor by 4 points · rank 4 → 2 of 89
+147% → 20%
MovedCleared the floor by 4 points · rank 3 → 2 of 85
−1326% → 12%
MovedCleared the floor by 3 points · rank 1 → 2 of 107
+130% → 13%
MovedCleared the floor by 3 points · rank 8 → 4 of 36
0Floor 10 pts · measured

The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · Every change resolves to its category page and to the previous edition's record on the Data page.

The models asked

Fourteen models: the generally available models a buyer meets as a default in an assistant, with search on. Two joined this edition and zero left. A model joins at an edition boundary and stays at least three editions; movement is read over the models both editions asked, so a join never moves a share on its own. The roster rule.
ModelVersion asked forLabHow it searchesIn the set since
Claude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5Anthropicnative searchOctober 2026
GPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-miniOpenAInative searchOctober 2026
Gemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flashGooglenative searchOctober 2026
Perplexity SonarsonarPerplexitynative searchOctober 2026
Grok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoningxAIgateway, Perplexity searchOctober 2026
Mistral Smallmistral/mistral-smallMistralgateway, Perplexity searchOctober 2026
DeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flashDeepSeekgateway, Perplexity searchOctober 2026
Llama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverickMetagateway, Perplexity searchOctober 2026
Qwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flashAlibabagateway, Perplexity searchOctober 2026
Kimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2Moonshotgateway, Perplexity searchOctober 2026
GLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashxZ.AIgateway, Perplexity searchOctober 2026
MiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5MiniMaxgateway, Perplexity searchOctober 2026
GPT-6 Lunagpt-6-lunaOpenAInative searchOctober 2026 · joined this edition
Muse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30bMetagateway, Perplexity searchOctober 2026 · joined this edition

The record

The prompts, the model set, the vendor table the edition was scored under and the report, free to download and to cite. The raw judge labels and full answers are sent on request.
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Raw judge labels
One row per named product, with the name exactly as written and a verbatim evidence quote.
25.7 MB, by request
JSON
Full responses
Every call with its full answer text, timestamp, version string, search flag, cited URLs, latency and token counts.
20.2 MB, by request
JSON
Vendor table v2026-10.7
Canonical names, aliases, category-scoped readings, exclusions and the change log.
823 KB, by request
JSON
Prompts
Every prompt verbatim: six variants across 57 categories for each buyer segment, 342 per segment. Each prompt carries its set; the September 2026 mid-market set, asked as a B2B software company, is kept under its own ids beside the current one.
485 KB
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Model set
Pinned models, endpoints, search tools and list prices as of the edition.
16 KB
Markdown
Edition report
The derived report for the edition, including the appendix on loose paraphrase stability.
590 KB
Markdown
Data dictionary
What each column of the record means, how to reproduce any share on the site, the license and the citation.
5 KB
JSON
Calibration repeat: judge labels
The same prompts asked again on October 4, 2026 with nothing changed, over 10 categories. One row per named product, as in the edition file.
4.5 MB, by request
JSON
Calibration repeat: full responses
Every call of the repeat with its full answer text, timestamp, version string, search flag, cited URLs, latency and token counts.
3.5 MB, by request
Markdown
Calibration report
The derived report for the repeat, the per-model flip rates behind the noise floor.
125 KB
Cite this edition
Finance AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. finance-ai-index.com. Scored under vendor table v2026-10.7.