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Cross-border payments and FX for small business buyers

Asked as “cross-border payments platform for businesses”, and as “FX hedging and international payments tool”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 47 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
68%
Clear leader
68Wise Business15OFX06Airwallex11others

68% of first choices, clear leader.

Since September 2026▼−3Since September 2026: 73% → 70%, −3 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Wise Business held the lead, −3 points on 73%, inside the 10-point floor.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
01Wise Business68%3%72endorsed leader▼−3Since September 2026: 73% → 70%, −3 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.73% → 70%
02OFX15%0%19accepted challenger▲+10Since September 2026: 2% → 12%, +10 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 12%
03Airwallex6%5%64accepted challenger▲+3Since September 2026: 5% → 8%, +3 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.5% → 8%
04Payoneer2%21%47accepted challenger▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 2%
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
07PayPal0%80%25criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.0% → 0%
06Stripe0%21%29accepted challenger▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.2% → 0%
05Revolut Business0%5%21accepted challenger▼−7Since September 2026: 7% → 0%, −7 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.7% → 0%

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

Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All fifteen head-to-head pages: the top six products, each against each

One product takes 68% of first choices here, so the chart would put six markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. One product carries a negative rate above 25% in this category.

What they warned about

One of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-6 Luna and Muse Glimmer 30B changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
PayPal
80%
20 of 25 labels negative · 11 of 14 models · 6 hard negative
“PayPal has high transaction fees, conversion charges, and regulatory issues that may affect profit... there's a risk of account holds or frozen funds” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
Payoneer
21%
10 of 47 labels negative · 5 of 14 models · 3 hard negative
“Platforms to **Avoid or Be Highly Cautious With**: - **Payoneer**... sudden account restrictions/freezes without clear reasons” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
Stripe
21%
6 of 29 labels negative · 5 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“**Avoid**: Tipalti (overkill for small volume), Stripe (higher FX costs unless you need their developer tools)” Kimi K2, direct prompt
Airwallex
5%
3 of 64 labels negative · 3 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Complaints: Frozen business funds, payment rejections, slow account verification (weeks+)” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt

What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the fourteen in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

77 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1062 links across 225 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 2 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.

vendor site · Airwallex52 answers · 88 citations · 14 models
49 answers · 144 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Tipalti36 answers · 39 citations · 11 models
vendor site · XTransfer31 answers · 68 citations · 11 models
vendor site · WorldFirst25 answers · 29 citations · 12 models
23 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Payoneer22 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
21 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
19 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
vendor site · HighRadius19 answers · 20 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Guideflow19 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
vendor site · BILL15 answers · 18 citations · 7 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best cross-border payments platform for businesses”, “cross-border payment platforms”, “cross-border payments platform for businesses”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Wise Business wise.com68%2921,900167158,520,306$8178
OFX ofx.com15%426,6004347,511,219$2,84076
Airwallex airwallex.com
Airwallex 6%, Airwallex Payments 0%
6%30827,100416420,414$56,832455
Payoneer payoneer.com2%11649,5001,07142,477$192143
XTransfer xtransfer.com2%141,60023622,724
WorldFirst worldfirst.com2%77
iBanFirst ibanfirst.com2%8
Ebury ebury.com2%772057987
Revolut Business revolut.com0%433,60017945,913,008$87362
Stripe stripe.com0%361823,000102,7413,226,782$3,6211022

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 15 sites; 5 of them are among the sites the models cited here (airwallex.com, highradius.com, payoneer.com, tipalti.com, worldfirst.com). The first result for “best cross-border payments platform for businesses” is connectpay.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best cross-border payments platform for businesses for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which FX hedging and international payments tool would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top cross-border payment platforms for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best cross-border payments platform for businesses for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a cross-border payments platform for businesses. What should we look at?”Negative“Which cross-border payment platforms should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Wise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer, Thunes
no first choiceChangedWise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer, Stripe
Wise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex, Cashfree Payments, Revolut Business
no first choiceagainst: Global Payments, PayPal
GPT-5.4 miniWise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex, OFX, Payoneer
AirwallexChanged
One alternativeWise Business
Airwallex, Wise Business
Two alternativesPayoneer, Stripe
Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashWise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex, OFX, Veem
OFXChanged
Three alternativesAirwallex, Alt21, Ebury
against: Wise Business
Airwallex, Wise Business
Three alternativesDeel, Gusto Global, Revolut Business
against: Payoneer
Wise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex, Revolut Business, Veem
against: PayPal
no first choice
Four alternativesAirwallex, Brex, Ramp, Wise Business
against: MoneyGram, PayPal, Payoneer, Western Union
Perplexity SonarWise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, XTransfer
WorldFirstChanged
Four alternativesAirwallex, FXGuard, Kantox, Wise Business
Wise Business
Four alternativesAirwallex, BILL, Payoneer, Veem
Wise Business
One alternativePayoneer
against: Airwallex, PayPal, Stripe
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.1 FastWise Business
Four alternativesAirwallex, Stripe, Tipalti, Trolley
against: Banks/SWIFT, PayPal
Ebury, iBanFirstChanged
Two alternativesAirwallex, Wise Business
Wise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer, Stripe
against: PayPal
Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer
against: PayPal, Traditional banks
Airwallex, Wise Business
Two alternativesPayoneer, Stripe
against: Airwallex, Checkout.com, Payoneer, SWIFT, Xoom
Mistral SmallWise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex, Thunes, Tipalti
Wise BusinessHeld
Two alternativesOFX for Business, Revolut Business
Wise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex, Nium, Stripe
against: PayPal
Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer
no first choicenothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashWise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Tipalti
against: Stripe
OFXChanged
One alternativeWise Business
against: Airwallex, Convera, CurrencyFair
Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Revolut Business
against: PayPal, Payoneer
Wise Business
One alternativeAirwallex
against: PayPal, Payoneer
no first choiceagainst: PayPal, Payoneer, Traditional Bank SWIFT Wire Transfers
Llama 4 MaverickWise Business
Four alternativesAirwallex, Tipalti, Trolley, XTransfer
no first choiceChangedWise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Nium
Wise Business
Two alternativesPayoneer, XTransfer
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashAirwallex, Wise Business
Two alternativesThunes, Tipalti
OFXChanged
One alternativeAirwallex
against: HSBC, Wells Fargo, Wise Business
Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer
Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer
no first choiceagainst: Cash App, Standard Personal PayPal, Venmo
Kimi K2Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer
against: Stripe, Tipalti
OFXChanged
Three alternativesAirwallex, Wise Business, WorldFirst
against: Revolut Business
Wise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer, Revolut Business
against: PayPal
Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer
against: PayPal, Stripe
Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer
against: Global Payments, PayPal, Razorpay, Zelle, dLocal
GLM 4.7 FlashXWise Business
Four alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer, Thunes, XTransfer
OFXChanged
Three alternativesCorpay Cross-Border Payments, Revolut Business, iBanFirst
Wise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex Payments, Revolut Business, Stripe
against: PayPal, Payoneer
Wise Business
One alternativeAirwallex
against: PayPal
no first choiceagainst: Adyenagainst: Adyen, Checkout.com, PayPal, Payoneer, Stripe
MiniMax M2.5Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Tipalti
Payoneer, Wise BusinessChanged
Three alternativesCurrencycloud, OFX, WorldFirst
Wise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer, Stripe
Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Stripe
against: Payoneer
no first choiceagainst: Adyen, PayPal, Payoneer
GPT-6 LunaWise Business
One alternativeAirwallex
OFXChanged
One alternativeCorpay Cross-Border Payments
Airwallex, Wise Business
Three alternativesPayoneer, Revolut Business, Stripe
Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer
no first choiceagainst: PayPal, Stripe
Muse Glimmer 30BWise Business, XTransfer
Three alternativesMelio, OFX, Payoneer
OFXChanged
Four alternativesBound, FXGuard, Kantox, Wise Business
Wise Business
Two alternativesAirwallex, Revolut Business
Wise Business
Three alternativesAirwallex, Payoneer, Revolut Business
no first choiceagainst: MoneyGram, PayPal, Western Union
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:36yes98 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 07:57yes45 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:12yes1424 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:37yes173 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 09:14yes239 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 07:44yes54 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 07:58yes1923 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:13yes51 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 07:37yes515 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:10yes1324 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:28yes23113 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 11:09yes723 s
Direct recommendationGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 10:10yes213 s
Direct recommendationMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 09:34yes1527 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:05no04 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:36yes55 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 11:03yes1125 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:45yes333 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:51yes236 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:16yes197 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 07:57yes2324 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:09yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:01yes1077 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:17yes1922 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:50yes1922 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:03no050 s
ParaphraseGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 10:49yes417 s
ParaphraseMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 07:36yes1423 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:00yes1810 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:41yes67 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:20yes1529 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:02yes166 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:27yes229 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 11:02yes99 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 07:46yes2335 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:57yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 11:05yes1023 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:44yes1527 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:24yes2335 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 07:52yes918 s
ComparativeGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 10:21yes515 s
ComparativeMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 09:01yes2354 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:30yes98 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:00yes45 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:47yes1422 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 09:20yes183 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:16yes227 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:58yes52 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:41yes2325 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:33yes51 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 07:49yes513 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 07:46yes2020 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:45yes1561 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 11:07yes1529 s
Budget constrainedGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 08:09yes312 s
Budget constrainedMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 08:28yes1023 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:28no08 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:31yes77 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:05yes1223 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 08:21yes186 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 07:31yes1811 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 11:07no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:25no023 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 11:21yes52 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:41no029 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:32yes2424 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 10:46yes1019 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:13yes513 s
Scale constrainedGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 07:39yes336 s
Scale constrainedMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 09:14no03 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:36yes189 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:15yes67 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:50yes2024 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 08:20yes207 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:57yes259 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 07:37yes128 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:41yes2435 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:49yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:13yes2059 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:46yes2420 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:14yes2547 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:57yes1853 s
Negative framingGPT-6 Lunagpt-6-luna2026-10-01 10:43yes518 s
Negative framingMuse Glimmer 30Bmeta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai2026-10-01 08:59yes2532 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Corpay read as Corpay Cross-Border Payments
Unresolved, counted raw
Airwallex Payments
Banks/SWIFT
Cashfree Payments
Commerce Bank
CurrencyFair
Gusto Global
HSBC UAE
OFX for Business
Standard Personal PayPal
TorFX
Traditional Bank SWIFT Wire Transfers
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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