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Botkeeper

23Judge labels
1First choices
9Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
0% in AI accounting assistants for small business buyers
Rank 29 of 79 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 25% of its 8 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Botkeeper 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
AI accounting assistantsAccounting and close0%29 of 7925%8under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Botkeeper 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 Botkeeper across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00011
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500112

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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative7 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labels1
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative23 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Shortlist: QuickBooks Enterprise AI, Botkeeper, Netgain, Xero AI—request enterprise demos.” Grok 4.1 Fast · AI accounting assistants · scale prompt · alternative
“Firms needing to manage many clients may prefer Botkeeper (AI-led outsourced bookkeeping)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AI accounting assistants · 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.

“Botkeeper was a well-funded AI bookkeeping company ($90M in funding, operating since 2015). It shut down in February 2026—overnight.” MiniMax M2.5 · AI accounting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative
“wound down in February 2026 after 11 years and is now run under Xendoo ownership (creating continuity risk)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI accounting assistants · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Botkeeper, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Botkeeper was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Xero16 of 234Not in the top three
QuickBooks Online15 of 238Not in the top three
Vic.ai11 of 231Not in the top three
Numeric8 of 232Not in the top three
BILL7 of 230Not in the top three
ChatGPT7 of 230Not in the top three
Dext7 of 230Not in the top three
Digits6 of 231Not in the top three
Zeni6 of 230Not in the top three
Sage Intacct5 of 231Not 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 Botkeeper. 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 22 of the 23 answers that named Botkeeper and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gotofu.com11
intuit.com11
numeric.io11
dualentry.com9
articsledge.com8
fathomhq.com7
growthy.com7
botkeeper.comYour site6
unite.ai6
xero.com6

Seventy-six of the eighty-two domain citations in answers naming Botkeeper came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 Botkeeper'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 Botkeeper, 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 botkeeper.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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