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Index Vendors › Airwallex · September 2026 Edition
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Airwallex

278Judge labels
30First choices
13Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
8Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
33% in Cross-border payments for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 83 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
9 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 5% of its 43 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In cross-border payments · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Airwallex for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Cross-border payments and FXTreasury and cash33%2 of 835%43endorsed leader
Expense managementSpend and procurement2%11 of 460%8under 10 labels · led by Ramp at 34%
Corporate cardsSpend and procurement0%9 of 630%17accepted challenger
Business bankingTreasury and cash0%15 of 780%12accepted challenger
B2B payment acceptanceReceivables and billing0%21 of 9118%11accepted challenger
Spend management platformsSpend and procurement0%12 of 390%6under 10 labels · led by Ramp at 49%
Business bill payTreasury and cash0%25 of 690%2under 10 labels · led by BILL at 35%
Contractor paymentsSpend and procurement0%31 of 830%1under 10 labels · led by Deel at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Airwallex yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Airwallex across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.505106
GPT-5.4 mini14005
Gemini 3.5 Flash286117
Perplexity Sonar12216
Grok 4.1 Fast234110
Mistral Small07209
DeepSeek V4 Flash362011
Llama 4 Maverick11406
Qwen 3.7 Flash33006
Kimi K212115
GLM 4.7 FlashX25209
MiniMax M2.5343010

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct59 labels11
Paraphrase29 labels2
Comparative76 labels10not counted in share
Budget-constrained58 labels13
Scale-constrained24 labels4
Negative32 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative278 labels in all, every segment counted; 30 of the 42 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Airwallex is the best all‑in‑one choice for mid‑market B2B companies needing multi‑currency accounts, multi‑entity control, and broad local payout coverage.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cross-border payments · direct prompt · first choice
“Two platforms stand out as the absolute best budget-friendly cross-border payment solutions ... Wise Business and Airwallex.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cross-border payments · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with Airwallex if you're growing cross-border ops needing full-stack tools, or Wise for simple, cheap transfers.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cross-border payments · direct prompt · first choice
“Airwallex is often the strongest all-around choice if you want multi-currency accounts, cards, and payouts in one stack” Perplexity Sonar · Cross-border payments · direct prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“their platform is fundamentally optimized for transactional operations rather than complex risk hedging programs” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cross-border payments · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Be cautious with these B2B payment platforms... Airwallex: Frequent reports of sudden account freezes/holds” Grok 4.1 Fast · B2B payment acceptance · negative prompt · soft negative
“it is usually positioned more as an all-in-one platform than the cheapest option” Perplexity Sonar · Cross-border payments · budget prompt · soft negative
“Mixed reviews highlight concerning operational patterns” Kimi K2 · B2B payment acceptance · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Airwallex, over the 278 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Airwallex was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Payoneer84 of 2780Not in the top three
Ramp81 of 27836Not in the top three
Stripe74 of 2786Not in the top three
Brex70 of 27810Not in the top three
BILL Spend & Expense56 of 2785Not in the top three
Adyen51 of 27810Not in the top three
Thunes44 of 2789Not in the top three
Tipalti36 of 2783Not in the top three
PayPal35 of 2780Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Airwallex. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 232 of the 278 answers that named Airwallex and are not a share of its labels.

Names read as Airwallex

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Airwallex; a claim can dispute any of them.
Airwallex Corporate Card 7Airwallex Borderless Cards 1Airwallex Business Essentials 1Airwallex Corporate Cards 1Airwallex Spend Management 1Airwallex/Brex 1
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