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Index Vendors › Bluevine · September 2026 Edition
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Bluevine

85Judge labels
21First choices
9Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
25% in Business banking for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 78 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 34 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
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 Bluevine 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
Business bankingTreasury and cash20%2 of 789%34accepted challenger
Invoicing softwareReceivables and billing0%51 of 860%1under 10 labels · led by Wave at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Bluevine 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 Bluevine across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.503104
GPT-5.4 mini01102
Gemini 3.5 Flash02013
Perplexity Sonar12003
Grok 4.1 Fast31004
Mistral Small11103
DeepSeek V4 Flash01113
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash22004
Kimi K211013
GLM 4.7 FlashX11002
MiniMax M2.510102

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
Direct13 labels6
Paraphrase11 labels1
Comparative23 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained23 labels14
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative12 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative85 labels in all, every segment counted; 21 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.

“choose Bluevine Business Checking for the best balance of low cost and useful business features” Perplexity Sonar · Business banking · budget prompt · first choice
“Bluevine is frequently cited as the best for scaling businesses due to its fee structure.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Business banking · direct prompt · first choice
“Consider highly rated alternatives: Bluevine, Mercury, Axos, NBKC (low fees, good reviews” Grok 4.1 Fast · Business banking · negative prompt · first choice
“Wise Business and BlueVine are often recommended as the best free or low-cost options” Mistral Small · Business banking · 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.

“High closure rate (44% of negatives)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Business banking · negative prompt · hard negative
“neobanks (such as Mercury, Bluevine, or Novo) rely heavily on automated fraud-detection algorithms” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Business banking · negative prompt · soft negative
“Caution: Multiple reports of unexpectedly frozen or closed business accounts” Kimi K2 · Business banking · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Bluevine, over the 85 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bluevine was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Relay54 of 854Not in the top three
Novo42 of 852Not in the top three
Bank of America23 of 851Not in the top three
Brex21 of 854Not in the top three
Found18 of 850Not in the top three
U.S. Bank17 of 851Not in the top three
Axos Bank17 of 850Not in the top three
Wells Fargo16 of 850Not 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 Bluevine. 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 75 of the 85 answers that named Bluevine and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

nerdwallet.com54
finder.com44
airwallex.com38
handelsblatt.com36
found.com33
forbes.com32
bluevine.comYour site29
rho.co24
techrepublic.com22
relayfi.com21

304 of the 333 domain citations in answers naming Bluevine came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Bluevine

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Bluevine; a claim can dispute any of them.
Bluevine Business Checking 5BlueVine 2Bluevine Standard Business Checking 1
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Claim this page

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 Bluevine'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 Bluevine, 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 bluevine.com 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.

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