Every category where a model named Avalara 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
Global e-invoicing compliance	Tax and compliance	28%	1 of 108	4%	28	accepted challenger
Corporate tax provision	Tax and compliance	7%	5 of 98	27%	11	criticized challenger
Contractor payments	Spend and procurement	0%	65 of 83	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Deel at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Avalara 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 Avalara 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	1	2	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	3	0	1	1	5
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	3	0	0	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	1	2	5
Mistral Small	2	0	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	1	2	1	6
Llama 4 Maverick	2	1	0	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	0	0	3
Kimi K2	1	1	1	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	0	3

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

Direct21 labels8

Paraphrase43 labels13

Comparative10 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained11 labels3

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative90 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 25 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 Overall for Mid-Market B2B: Avalara ... Start with Avalara if you want the best balance of B2B features, mid-market fit, and integration ecosystem.” Kimi K2 · Global e-invoicing compl · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“my default recommendation would be Avalara if you need broad VAT compliance coverage, ERP integrations, and room to scale” Perplexity Sonar · Global e-invoicing compl · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I would recommend Avalara as the default choice if you need broad, scalable compliance coverage and ERP integration.” Perplexity Sonar · Corporate tax provision · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I'd suggest starting with Avalara or SAP Ariba if you have larger invoice volumes and international operations” MiniMax M2.5 · Global e-invoicing compl · 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.

“Platforms like *Avalara AvaTax*, *TaxJar*, or *Anrok* ... they do not file corporate income taxes” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Corporate tax provision · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“Avoid pure 1099 filers like Track1099/Avalara” Grok 4.1 Fast · Contractor payments · budget prompt · hard negative

“Automated sales tax tools improperly configured (e.g., Avalara) ... "garbage in, garbage out."” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Corporate tax provision · negative prompt · soft negative

“but those are generally more enterprise-oriented and not the best fit for a limited budget” GPT-5.4 mini · Global e-invoicing compl · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Avalara, over the 90 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Avalara was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Sovos39 of 9011Compare →

Vertex32 of 907Not in the top three

Pagero24 of 906Not in the top three

Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE19 of 906Not in the top three

Basware19 of 900Not in the top three

Tipalti14 of 900Not in the top three

Xero12 of 904Not in the top three

TaxJar12 of 901Not in the top three

QuickBooks Online9 of 903Not in the top three

Bloomberg Tax Provision9 of 900Not 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 Avalara. 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 80 of the 90 answers that named Avalara and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

avalara.comYour site38

worldmetrics.org35

zipdo.co33

g2.com30

gartner.com30

gitnux.org30

wifitalents.com27

mindsprint.com24

vatit.com20

apsentra.com15

244 of the 282 domain citations in answers naming Avalara came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

mindsprint.com/resources/blogs/e-invoicing-software24

gartner.com/reviews/market/tax-software21

avalara.com/us/en/index.html19

vatit.com/blog/7-best-e-invoicing-compliance-solutions19

apsentra.com/best-e-invoicing-software15

guideflow.com/blog/tax-compliance-software14

commenda.io/blog/best-vat-software-global-companies12

wifitalents.com/best/electronic-invoicing-software11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Avalara

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

Avalara E-Invoicing and Live Reporting 2Avalara (AvaTax & Avalara VAT) 1Avalara (AvaTax) 1Avalara 1099 1Avalara/Vertex 1

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