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5 categories · Named, not ranked

Akaunting

12Judge labels

1First choices

4Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

5Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Akaunting was named 5 times in Fixed asset accounting and 4 other categories, where Sage Fixed Assets led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market13 of 94

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In fixed asset accounting · 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 Akaunting 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Fixed asset accounting	Accounting and close	2%	13 of 94	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sage Fixed Assets at 29%
Account reconciliation	Accounting and close	0%	43 of 72	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by FloQast at 33%
Accounting software	Accounting and close	0%	31 of 56	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 40%
Financial reporting and dashboards	Planning and analysis	0%	47 of 133	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 27%
Invoicing software	Receivables and billing	0%	75 of 86	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wave at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Akaunting 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 Akaunting across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	2	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained8 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“If your budget is extremely limited, start with Akaunting (free)” Kimi K2 · Fixed asset accounting · budget prompt · first choice

“Best Free Self‑Hosted Open‑Source Option” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Financial reporting · budget prompt · alternative

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.

“Described as "half-baked software" with numerous bugs” Kimi K2 · Invoicing software · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Akaunting, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Akaunting was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wave10 of 124Not in the top three

Xero9 of 120Not in the top three

FreshBooks7 of 120Not in the top three

GnuCash7 of 120Not in the top three

Zoho Books6 of 123Not in the top three

QuickBooks Online6 of 121Not in the top three

Patriot Software4 of 120Not in the top three

QuickBooks3 of 120Not in the top three

Invoice Ninja2 of 120Not in the top three

Invoicely2 of 120Not 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 Akaunting. 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 12 of the 12 answers that named Akaunting and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

capterra.com5

pcmag.com5

toolradar.com5

fitsmallbusiness.com4

softwareadvice.com4

akaunting.comYour site3

au.pcmag.com3

business.org3

finance.yahoo.com3

gnucash.org3

Thirty-five of the thirty-eight domain citations in answers naming Akaunting came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

pcmag.com/picks/the-best-small-business-accounting-software5

toolradar.com/guides/cheapest-accounting-software4

akaunting.com/3

au.pcmag.com/accounting-tax-software/11843/the-best-small-business-accounting-software3

finance.yahoo.com/news/best-budget-friendly-accounting-software-214919810.html3

gnucash.org/3

trustpilot.com/review/akaunting.com3

uschamber.com/co/run/finance/free-accounting-tools-for-small-businesses3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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