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Index Vendors › Basware · September 2026 Edition
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Basware

136Judge labels
9First choices
28Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
12% in Accounts payable automat for enterprise buyers
Rank 21 of 108 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 25 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In global e-invoicing compl · 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 Basware 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
Global e-invoicing complianceTax and compliance0%21 of 10820%25accepted challenger
Procure-to-paySpend and procurement0%74 of 8567%3under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 45%
Accounts payable automationSpend and procurement0%25 of 600%2under 10 labels · led by Stampli at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Basware 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 Basware across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500303
GPT-5.4 mini01102
Gemini 3.5 Flash01012
Perplexity Sonar01124
Grok 4.1 Fast01214
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash01113
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash02013
Kimi K211103
GLM 4.7 FlashX10012
MiniMax M2.510001

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
Direct29 labels4
Paraphrase15 labels4
Comparative39 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained14 labels1
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative31 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative136 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 14 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.

“Choose Basware or Sovos if you are a large enterprise operating in multiple countries with strict government e-invoicing mandates.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Global e-invoicing compl · comparative prompt · first choice
“Scaling business needing global compliance: Basware or Tungsten” MiniMax M2.5 · Global e-invoicing compl · comparative prompt · first choice
“Cross-border trade with compliance requirements → Sovos or Basware” Kimi K2 · Global e-invoicing compl · comparative prompt · first choice
“Ideal for consolidating supplier and multi-entity invoice processing across global finance teams and ERPs” Mistral Small · Global e-invoicing compl · comparative 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.

“Users on Trustpilot frequently describe experiences as "stressful" and "horrible."” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Global e-invoicing compl · negative prompt · hard negative
“Instead of paying thousands of dollars for enterprise-grade compliance suites (like Sovos, Pagero, or Basware)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Global e-invoicing compl · budget prompt · soft negative
“Caution Advised. While a known entity in large-scale B2B networks, user sentiment is heavily polarized.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Global e-invoicing compl · negative prompt · soft negative
“Tradeoff: Weaker on the purchasing/requisition side vs. Procurify or Precoro” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Procure-to-pay · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Basware, over the 136 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Basware was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Coupa76 of 13612Not in the top three
Tipalti66 of 1368Not in the top three
HighRadius51 of 13615Not in the top three
Sovos43 of 13612Not in the top three
SAP Ariba43 of 1362Not in the top three
Medius40 of 1367Not in the top three
Pagero40 of 1367Not in the top three
BILL32 of 1362Not in the top three
SAP Concur28 of 1360Not in the top three
AvidXchange22 of 1360Not 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 Basware. 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 124 of the 136 answers that named Basware and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mindsprint.com62
worldmetrics.org53
highradius.com48
gitnux.org37
g2.com36
medius.com31
tipalti.com28
wifitalents.com27
gartner.com26
apsentra.com25

373 of the 373 domain citations in answers naming Basware came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Basware

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Basware; a claim can dispute any of them.
Basware P2P 1Tradeshift/Basware 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 basware.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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