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Alternatives to Claude, as AI models named them

In the September 2026 Edition, 204 of the 204 answers collected in the one category where Claude holds a standing named it neither as a first choice nor as an alternative. These are the products those answers put first, category by category and buyer by buyer. The output is the models' output.

Named instead, most often

Xero17

First choices in the 204 answers that did not name Claude, every category and segment above added together; a product can be counted in several. Each category below keeps its own denominator.

AI accounting assistants

Accounting and close. Six framings, twelve models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Claude is not its first choice or an alternative in it.

Small businessClaude holds 7 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Seventy-two of the seventy-two answers did not name Claude; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those seventy-two answers, fourteen products in all, the eight most named:

QuickBooks Online31 of 72

Xero11 of 72

Wave6 of 72

Digits3 of 72

Lunos AI3 of 72

Pilot3 of 72

Zoho Books3 of 72

FreshBooks2 of 72

6 more in the record.The full small business standing →

Mid-marketClaude is #13 of 14 here at 0% of first choices, 10 labels.

Seventy-two of the seventy-two answers did not name Claude; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those seventy-two answers, eighteen products in all, the eight most named:

Sage Intacct11 of 72

QuickBooks Online8 of 72

Zoho Books8 of 72

Xero6 of 72

Ramp4 of 72

Numeric3 of 72

Vic.ai3 of 72

Wave3 of 72

10 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →

EnterpriseClaude holds 8 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Sixty of the sixty answers did not name Claude; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those sixty answers, twenty-one products in all, the eight most named:

BlackLine8 of 60

FloQast7 of 60

Numeric6 of 60

Vic.ai6 of 60

Oracle NetSuite5 of 60

Maxima3 of 60

Sage Intacct3 of 60

Acumatica Cloud ERP2 of 60

13 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

How to read this

A category is asked six ways of each of twelve models on behalf of each buyer segment, so a segment is seventy-two answers. An answer belongs on this page when the judge labeled Claude neither its first choice nor an alternative in it; the products listed are the first choices those answers made, counted once per answer. An answer that named nothing first, or named Claude only in passing, is in the denominator and adds to no product. The counts are not the category standing, which is on the category page with its share and rank; they are the same record read from Claude's side.

Every answer and every label is in the free record. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of Claude was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.

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