Novo vs U.S. Bank
Zero of twelve models named Novo first on the direct prompt; zero named U.S. Bank. Novo was named by eleven of the twelve models and U.S. Bank by eight and Novo carries 19 labels and U.S. Bank 16, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in one category 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 business banking page.
By framing
NovoFirst choices, of twelve modelsU.S. Bank
Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Novo and U.S. Bank were named in the same answer eleven times, of the 52 answers naming Novo and the 32 naming U.S. Bank. In those answers U.S. Bank took the first choice one time and Novo three.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
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| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | | |||
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| 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 | |
Novo U.S. Bank first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Novo on the left and U.S. Bank on the right.The direct prompt
Neither was the first choice, one was named
3 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
9 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
U.S. Bank2%#– of 11Novo0%#– of 11What the models said about Novo
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of five in this category shown.
“neobanks (such as Mercury, Bluevine, or Novo) rely heavily on automated fraud-detection algorithms” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“Novo: Best for Simple, 100% Fee-Free Banking ... Choose Novo if you want an all-around free account with great integrations and ATM fee refunds.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with Bluevine or Novo—open online in minutes with EIN/SSN.” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · first choice
“For US solos: Novo/Bluevine.” Grok 4.1 Fast · comparative prompt · first choice
What the models said about U.S. Bank
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of four in this category shown.
“Caution: Accused of opening unauthorized accounts, rated poorly across review platforms” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · soft negative
“U.S. Bank Business Essentials stands out as one of the only free business checking accounts offered by a big brick-and-mortar bank” Claude Haiku 4.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“expands on basic business options, offering the ability to grow money through money market accounts and CDs” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · alternative
“Best if you're in U.S. Bank's middle-market sweet spot: U.S. Bank Commercial Banking” GPT-5.4 mini · direct prompt · alternative
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.