Zero of twelve models named Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE first on the direct prompt; zero named Vertex. Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE was named by nine of the twelve models and Vertex by seven and Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE carries 19 labels and Vertex 10, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in three categories this edition.
Named in three 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 corporate tax provision page.
Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE and Vertex were named in the same answer fifty-four times, of the 101 answers naming Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE and the 192 naming Vertex. In those answers Vertex took the first choice nine times and Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE four.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
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| GLM 4.7 FlashX | ||||||
| MiniMax M2.5 |
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.
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of seven in this category shown.
“Enterprise Options to AVOID on a Limited Budget | Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE | $200K–$2M+/year” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: Longview, ONESOURCE, Workiva, Oracle Tax Reporting, and Corptax.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“cannot justify the six-figure price tag of enterprise suites like Bloomberg or Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · soft negative
“Choose Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE if you are a larger, audited mid-market C-Corp with multiple subsidiaries” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE as the top choice for income tax compliance software” Grok 4.1 Fast · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Corporate income tax (direct tax) | Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE or Vertex” GLM 4.7 FlashX · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“Enterprise-focused, indirect tax only (no provision)” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative
“consider Vertex for indirect tax, but it is not the clearest provision-first choice from the sources I found” GPT-5.4 mini · direct prompt · soft negative
“Corporate income tax (direct tax) | Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE or Vertex” GLM 4.7 FlashX · 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.