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Index › Vendors › Citi · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Citi

21Judge labels

1First choices

6Negative labels

7 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.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Citi was named 6 times in Corporate cards and 1 other category, where Ramp led with 69%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business63 of 67

under the label threshold

Mid-market45 of 63

under the label threshold

Enterprise8 of 59

under the label threshold

In corporate cards · 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 Citi 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
Corporate cards	Spend and procurement	0%	45 of 63	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by Ramp at 69%
Cross-border payments and FX	Treasury and cash	0%	61 of 83	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wise Business at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Citi 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 Citi 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	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labels1

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative9 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“look for cards from established networks (Amex, Chase, Capital One, Citi)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Corporate cards · negative prompt · alternative

“banks (Citi/JPMorgan) for global enterprises” Grok 4.1 Fast · Corporate cards · scale 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.

“High complaint volumes (CFPB data) on fees, servicing, and support. Avoid if your business needs strong integrations or global use” Grok 4.1 Fast · Corporate cards · negative prompt · hard negative

“Citibank is known for high fees and a history of compliance issues.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Corporate cards · negative prompt · hard negative

“may not yet want the rigid, high-fee structure of a traditional tier-one global bank (like HSBC or Citi)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cross-border payments · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Citi, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Citi was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ramp15 of 217Not in the top three

Brex15 of 213Not in the top three

BILL Spend & Expense9 of 211Not in the top three

J.P. Morgan9 of 211Not in the top three

American Express8 of 212Not in the top three

Airwallex6 of 211Not in the top three

Rippling Spend6 of 210Not in the top three

Chase5 of 210Not in the top three

Wise Business4 of 210Not in the top three

Adyen3 of 211Not 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 Citi. 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 13 of the 21 answers that named Citi and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

nerdwallet.com7

rippling.com7

airwallex.com6

forbes.com6

trustpilot.com5

brex.com4

cashbook.in4

reddit.com4

use.expensify.com4

americanexpress.com3

Fifty of the fifty domain citations in answers naming Citi came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/best-corporate-credit-cards5

nerdwallet.com/business/credit-cards/best/corporate5

cashbook.in/blogs/best-corporate-cards-and-their-alternatives4

rippling.com/blog/best-commercial-credit-cards-business4

rippling.com/blog/corporate-card-program4

use.expensify.com/resource-center/guides/evaluating-corporate-card-programs4

airwallex.com/en-us/blog/compare-corporate-business-cards3

connectpay.com/blog/cross-border-payments-companies3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Citi

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

Citibank 1

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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 citibank.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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