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American Express · 1 category · Named, not ranked

American Express Business Checking

9Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

1Category

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

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. American Express Business Checking was named 7 times in Business banking, where Mercury led with 20%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business26 of 64

under the label threshold

Mid-market17 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprise53 of 99

under the label threshold

In business banking · 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 American Express Business Checking 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
Business banking	Treasury and cash	0%	17 of 78	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Mercury at 20%

Movement

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

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

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

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“best if you want a no-fee account with high APY and unlimited free transactions; Investopedia rated it best overall for 2026” Perplexity Sonar · Business banking · budget prompt · alternative

“Traditional Bank Option: American Express Business Checking” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Business banking · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as American Express Business Checking, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and American Express Business Checking was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Bluevine8 of 94Not in the top three

Chase Business Banking8 of 90Not in the top three

Mercury8 of 90Not in the top three

Novo7 of 92Not in the top three

Relay7 of 90Not in the top three

Axos Bank4 of 90Not in the top three

Bank of America4 of 90Not in the top three

Grasshopper4 of 90Not in the top three

NBKC4 of 90Not in the top three

U.S. Bank4 of 90Not 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 American Express Business Checking. 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 9 of the 9 answers that named American Express Business Checking and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

nerdwallet.com8

finder.com7

forbes.com6

airwallex.com5

found.com5

techrepublic.com5

handelsblatt.com4

investopedia.com4

ofx.com4

backbase.com3

Fifty-one of the fifty-one domain citations in answers naming American Express Business Checking came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

forbes.com/financial-services/best-business-checking-accounts5

found.com/resources/business-banking/best-business-bank-accounts-small-business4

handelsblatt.com/geschaeftskonto/vergleich4

investopedia.com/the-best-small-business-bank-accounts-87820694

backbase.com/blog/top-business-banking-platform-providers3

nerdwallet.com/business/banking/best/banks3

nerdwallet.com/business/banking/best/types3

ofx.com/en-us/blog/best-no-fee-business-bank-accounts3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as American Express Business Checking

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as American Express Business Checking; a claim can dispute any of them.

American Express 3Amex Business Checking 2

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