Every category where a model named Claude 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
AI accounting assistants	Accounting and close	0%	78 of 79	100%	10	criticized challenger

Movement

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

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

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative23 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“public, non-enterprise AI chatbots should never be used to run your books or research complex tax regulations” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI accounting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid: Uploading client financial data directly into ChatGPT, Claude, or other general-purpose AI tools” Kimi K2 · AI accounting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative

“free/public versions of ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini ... not designed for sensitive accounting data handling” Perplexity Sonar · AI accounting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative

“Free versions of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, etc.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI accounting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Claude, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Claude was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ChatGPT27 of 290Not in the top three

QuickBooks Online14 of 295Not in the top three

Xero12 of 294Not in the top three

Gemini12 of 290Not in the top three

Vic.ai10 of 291Not in the top three

Numeric8 of 291Not in the top three

Digits8 of 290Not in the top three

FloQast8 of 290Not in the top three

FreshBooks5 of 291Not in the top three

BILL5 of 290Not 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 Claude. 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 23 of the 29 answers that named Claude and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com13

articsledge.com11

becker.com9

linkedin.com9

numeric.io9

reddit.com9

intuit.com8

usecarly.com8

creativeplanning.com7

fathomhq.com7

Ninety of the ninety domain citations in answers naming Claude came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/09/17/ai-in-accounting-how-to-work-smart-while-12

becker.com/blog/cpe/risks-of-ai-in-accounting-what-every-accounting-professional-needs-to-9

intuit.com/blog/innovative-thinking/best-ai-accounting-software-tools8

usecarly.com/blog/ai-accounting-software8

creativeplanning.com/insights/consulting/ai-accounting-risks-small-business-20267

fathomhq.com/blog/best-ai-accounting-tools-what-to-use-and-why7

numeric.io/blog/ai-accounting-tools7

accountingaitools.com/blog/ai-safe-accounting-data-security5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Claude

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

Anthropic’s Claude 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 claude.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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