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Index › Vendors › Braintree · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Braintree

9Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

5 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Braintree was named 3 times in B2B payment acceptance, where Helcim led with 17%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business28 of 66

under the label threshold

Mid-market51 of 91

under the label threshold

Enterprise60 of 88

under the label threshold

In b2b payment acceptance · 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 Braintree 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
B2B payment acceptance	Receivables and billing	0%	51 of 91	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by Helcim at 17%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.

“Best for: Subscription B2B billing” Kimi K2 · B2B payment acceptance · 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.

“Medium-high caution | Long history of freezing funds” DeepSeek V4 Flash · B2B payment acceptance · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Braintree, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Braintree was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Stripe8 of 93Not in the top three

PayPal5 of 90Not in the top three

Adyen4 of 91Not in the top three

Wise Business4 of 91Not in the top three

Airwallex4 of 90Not in the top three

Authorize.net4 of 90Not in the top three

BILL4 of 90Not in the top three

Stax4 of 90Not in the top three

Helcim3 of 91Not in the top three

Square3 of 91Not 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 Braintree. 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 7 of the 9 answers that named Braintree and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

connectpay.com4

gartner.com4

techrepublic.com4

worldmetrics.org4

airwallex.com3

emergenresearch.com3

billtrust.com2

fisglobal.com2

fitsmallbusiness.com2

forwardly.com2

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

Pages cited

connectpay.com/blog/b2b-payment-platforms4

gartner.com/reviews/market/b2b-payments-software4

techrepublic.com/article/best-b2b-payment-processors4

emergenresearch.com/blog/top-10-companies-by-competitive-position-in-the-global-b2b-paymen3

worldmetrics.org/service/b2b-payment3

fisglobal.com/insights/b2b-payment-authentication2

forwardly.com/blog/b2b-payment-solutions-and-platforms-how-to-choose-the-right-one2

airwallex.com/en-uk/blog/b2b-payment-gateways1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Braintree

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

Braintree (PayPal) 1PayPal / Braintree 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 Braintree'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 Braintree, 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 braintree.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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