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Business banking · September 2026 Edition

Rho vs Bank of America

Two of twelve models named Rho first on the direct prompt; one named Bank of America. Rho was named by nine of the twelve models and Bank of America by twelve and Rho carries 12 labels and Bank of America 27, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Rho

accepted challenger

Named in nine categories this edition.

Bank of America

accepted challenger

Named in three categories this edition.

First-choice share12%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%22%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#8A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels1227A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Rho reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Chase Business Banking was named alongside these two in nine of the twelve direct answers. Mercury vs Rho · Mercury vs Bank of America · Bluevine vs Rho

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

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
RhoFirst choices, of twelve modelsBank of America
Direct21
Paraphrase30
Comparative01
Budget-constrained00
Scale-constrained00
Negative006 against Bank of America
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Rho and Bank of America were named in the same answer twenty-two times, of the 106 answers naming Rho and the 89 naming Bank of America. In those answers Bank of America took the first choice two times and Rho six.

Every model, every framing

The seventy-two answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Rho and Bank of America stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
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
Rho Bank of America first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Rho on the left and Bank of America on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Rho and Bank of America stood in it.

Rho first, Bank of America an alternative

2 of 12 modelsBank of America was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashRho alternatives: Bank of America, Brex, Chase Business Banking, Fifth Third Bank, Mercury, PNC Bank
Perplexity SonarRho alternatives: Bluevine, Brex, Relay

Bank of America first, Rho an alternative

1 of 12 modelsRho was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Grok 4.1 FastBank of America, Chase Business Banking alternatives: Brex, PNC Bank, Rho

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.
GPT-5.4 miniChase Business Banking alternatives: Bank of America, TD Bank, U.S. Bank
DeepSeek V4 FlashBrex alternatives: Bank of America, Chase Business Banking, HSBC, Mercury, Relay, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo
MiniMax M2.5Chase Business Banking alternatives: Airwallex, Bank of America, Barclays, HSBC, Mercury, NatWest, Rho, Silicon Valley Bank, Wells Fargo

Neither was named

6 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Brex alternatives: Airwallex, Chase Business Banking, U.S. Bank
Mistral SmallAxos Bank, PNC Bank alternatives: First Internet Bank, Revolut Business, Wise Business
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Qwen 3.7 FlashBluevine alternatives: Airwallex, Chase Business Banking, Relay
Kimi K2Chase Business Banking, Mercury alternatives: Brex, First Internet Bank
GLM 4.7 FlashXChase Business Banking alternatives: Airwallex, Qonto, Wise Business

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

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Rho leads by two points.
Rho2%#9 of 11
Bank of America0%#10 of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Rho leads by ten points.
Rho12%#4 of 13
Bank of America2%#8 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Rho leads by eighteen points.
Rho20%#1 of 11
Bank of America2%#7 of 11
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Rho

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.

“I'd recommend Rho if your priority is an all-in-one platform for banking, cards, bill pay, and spend controls as you scale.” Perplexity Sonar · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“For a mid-sized B2B startup, I'd recommend Rho as your primary banking platform” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about Bank of America

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of six in this category shown.

“Bank of America has the most complaints of any bank in the U.S., with customers reporting poor customer service, long wait times, excessive fees” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · hard negative
“128k+ complaints, A- BBB but high unresolved issues (e.g., frozen funds, payment delays, account closures)” Grok 4.1 Fast · negative prompt · hard negative
“Relationship banking, SME/mid-market leader ... Recent Greenwich surveys rank Chase/BofA/JPM high for mid-market trust/service.” Grok 4.1 Fast · direct prompt · first choice
“stick to Chase or Bank of America” Gemini 3.5 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
“Best if you need broad branch access and a familiar commercial platform: Bank of America Cash Management / CashPro” GPT-5.4 mini · direct prompt · alternative
Also compared

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.