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Index › Vendors › Bench · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Bench

12Judge labels

0First choices

7Negative labels

7 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

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Bench was named 6 times in AI accounting assistants, where Sage Intacct led with 25%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business39 of 57

under the label threshold

Mid-market76 of 79

under the label threshold

Enterprise69 of 76

under the label threshold

In ai accounting assistants · 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 Bench 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
AI accounting assistants	Accounting and close	0%	76 of 79	67%	6	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 25%

Movement

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

Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	3
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“(now defunct) ... shut down abruptly Dec 27, 2024, locking thousands of customers out of their data” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI accounting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid if cost-sensitive ... Bench ($199+/mo)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI accounting assistants · budget prompt · hard negative

“services like Bench start at ~$299/month” Kimi K2 · AI accounting assistants · budget prompt · soft negative

“you'd be outsourcing your books” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI accounting assistants · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

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

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

QuickBooks Online7 of 122Not in the top three

Xero6 of 122Not in the top three

Zeni6 of 120Not in the top three

Pilot5 of 120Not in the top three

Puzzle5 of 120Not in the top three

Truewind5 of 120Not in the top three

Vic.ai5 of 120Not in the top three

Zoho Books4 of 123Not in the top three

Numeric4 of 122Not in the top three

Booke AI4 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 Bench. 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 10 of the 12 answers that named Bench and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bestaiaccounting.com5

intuit.com5

gotofu.com4

growthy.com4

usecarly.com4

dualentry.com3

fitsmallbusiness.com3

startupowl.com3

aitoolgiant.com2

articsledge.com2

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

Pages cited

intuit.com/blog/innovative-thinking/best-ai-accounting-software-tools5

usecarly.com/blog/ai-accounting-software4

fitsmallbusiness.com/best-ai-accounting-software3

gotofu.com/blog/best-ai-bookkeeping-software3

growthy.com/blog/ai-bookkeeping-evaluation-checklist3

startupowl.com/setup/ai-bookkeeping-for-small-business3

aitoolgiant.com/reviews/best-ai-bookkeeping-accounting-tools-2026.html2

becker.com/blog/cpe/risks-of-ai-in-accounting-what-every-accounting-professional-needs-to-2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Bench

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

Bench Accounting 1

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Bench's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Bench, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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 bench.co is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.