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Index Vendors › BILL Spend & Expense · September 2026 Edition
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BILL Spend & Expense

340Judge labels
45First choices
42Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
5Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
35% in Spend management platfor for small business buyers
Rank 3 of 39 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 16% of its 49 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In spend management platfor · 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 BILL Spend & Expense 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
Spend management platformsSpend and procurement15%3 of 3916%49accepted challenger
Corporate cardsSpend and procurement12%2 of 633%38accepted challenger
Expense managementSpend and procurement9%5 of 4614%28accepted challenger
Corporate travel managementSpend and procurement0%16 of 600%3under 10 labels · led by Navan at 51%
Business bill payTreasury and cash0%40 of 690%1under 10 labels · led by BILL at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for BILL Spend & Expense 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 BILL Spend & Expense across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.522217
GPT-5.4 mini23117
Gemini 3.5 Flash06219
Perplexity Sonar23229
Grok 4.1 Fast1103115
Mistral Small244010
DeepSeek V4 Flash083314
Llama 4 Maverick334010
Qwen 3.7 Flash145111
Kimi K2342211
GLM 4.7 FlashX03317
MiniMax M2.505409

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
Direct44 labels5
Paraphrase50 labels9
Comparative75 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained78 labels30
Scale-constrained40 labels1
Negative53 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative340 labels in all, every segment counted; 45 of the 50 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.

“Ramp or BILL Spend & Expense are the top choices because they offer robust corporate card programs and expense management tools completely free” Kimi K2 · Corporate cards · budget prompt · first choice
“The Best Overall "Zero Cost" Option: BILL Spend & Expense ... widely recommended as the strongest starter option for small businesses” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Spend management platfor · budget prompt · first choice
“BILL Spend & Expense - offers a complete spend management solution and a free standalone expense management option.” Llama 4 Maverick · Spend management platfor · budget prompt · first choice
“the strongest default choice is usually BILL Spend & Expense or Ramp, because both offer a free core tier” Perplexity Sonar · Spend management platfor · budget 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.

“This one comes up repeatedly in negative reviews... Reports of funds being pulled/frozen without clear warning” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Corporate cards · negative prompt · hard negative
“Be especially cautious with: - BILL Spend & Expense — integration, approval, and support issues” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Spend management platfor · negative prompt · hard negative
“75+ reviews cite integration issues; 50+ mention fraud concerns” Kimi K2 · Expense management · negative prompt · hard negative
“Verdict: *High Risk due to Support & Stability Issues*” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Spend management platfor · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as BILL Spend & Expense, over the 334 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BILL Spend & Expense was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Ramp292 of 334131Compare →
Brex212 of 3348Compare →
Expensify129 of 33410Not in the top three
Zoho Expense95 of 33423Not in the top three
SAP Concur80 of 3349Not in the top three
Rippling Spend65 of 3341Not in the top three
Navan61 of 3345Not in the top three
Airwallex56 of 3343Not in the top three
Spendesk44 of 3343Not 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 BILL Spend & Expense. 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 280 of the 334 answers that named BILL Spend & Expense and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ramp.com129
airwallex.com114
gartner.com111
learn.g2.com110
rippling.com92
bill.com91
nerdwallet.com90
forbes.com86
emburse.com85
brex.com69

977 of the 977 domain citations in answers naming BILL Spend & Expense came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as BILL Spend & Expense

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as BILL Spend & Expense; a claim can dispute any of them.
BILL Spend & Expense (formerly Divvy) 11Divvy 7BILL 5BILL Divvy 5BILL Divvy Corporate Card 5BILL Spend & Expense (Divvy) 4Bill.com 4BILL Spend and Expense 3BILL Spend & Expense (Formerly Divvy) 2BILL/Divvy 2Divvy (BILL) 2BILL (formerly Divvy) 1BILL Divvy (now BILL Spend & Expense) 1BILL Spend & Expense (ex-Divvy) 1BILL Spend & Expense (formerly Divvy / Bill.com) 1Bill Spend & Expense 1Bill spend cards 1Divvy (by Bill.com) 1Divvy (by Fiserv) 1Divvy (now BILL) 1Divvy/Bill Spend & Expense 1Divvy/Ramp 1
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