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1 category · Named, not ranked

Barclays

10Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

5 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Barclays was named 3 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 business38 of 64

under the label threshold

Mid-market62 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprise56 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 Barclays 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%	62 of 78	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by Mercury at 20%

Movement

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 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.

“Strong commercial banking services” MiniMax M2.5 · Business banking · direct 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.

“has a documented pattern of unexplained account closures for small businesses” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Business banking · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Barclays, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Barclays was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Chase Business Banking8 of 104Not in the top three

Mercury6 of 102Not in the top three

Bank of America6 of 101Not in the top three

HSBC6 of 100Not in the top three

Starling Bank4 of 102Not in the top three

Brex4 of 101Not in the top three

Monzo4 of 101Not in the top three

Airwallex4 of 100Not in the top three

Tide4 of 100Not in the top three

Wells Fargo4 of 100Not 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 Barclays. 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 10 answers that named Barclays and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com6

airwallex.com5

found.com5

rho.co5

handelsblatt.com4

nerdwallet.com4

finder.com3

ofx.com3

rfp.wiki3

wise.com3

Forty-one of the forty-one domain citations in answers naming Barclays came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

airwallex.com/en-us/blog/compare-business-bank-accounts4

rho.co/blog/best-online-business-bank-accounts4

finder.com/uk/business-banking/best-business-accounts3

forbes.com/financial-services/best-business-checking-accounts3

found.com/resources/business-banking/best-business-bank-accounts-growing-businesses-employ3

handelsblatt.com/geschaeftskonto/vergleich3

airwallex.com/en-uk/blog/compare-business-bank-accounts2

amnistreasury.com/blog/business-account-comparison2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Barclays

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

Barclays Business Banking 1HSBC/Barclays 1

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at barclays.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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