Every category where a model named Cleverbridge 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	Since September 2026
Merchants of record	Receivables and billing	17%	2 of 45	0%	29	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cleverbridge yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Cleverbridge across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	1	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	2	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	2	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	2	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	3
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	1	3

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

Direct29 labels19

Paraphrase10 labels4

Comparative19 labels8not counted in share

Budget-constrained8 labels4

Scale-constrained12 labels2

Negative11 labels6not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative89 labels in all, every segment counted; 29 of the 43 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.

“Cleverbridge is the most enterprise-grade MoR on the market... Choose Cleverbridge if your sales team heavily drives deals via custom contracts” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Merchants of record · direct prompt · first choice

“Cleverbridge is the top choice due to its strong B2B focus, billing complexity handling, and enterprise-grade capabilities” MiniMax M2.5 · Merchants of record · direct prompt · first choice

“the best fit for higher‑touch, B2B‑focused sales cycles, invoicing, and complex enterprise procurement workflows” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Merchants of record · direct prompt · first choice

“Especially well-suited for mid-market and enterprise B2B SaaS companies with complex billing needs” Mistral Small · Merchants of record · direct prompt · first choice

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cleverbridge, over the 89 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cleverbridge was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Paddle79 of 8922Compare →

FastSpring70 of 896Compare →

PayPro Global43 of 893Compare →

Digital River29 of 890Not among the top eight

Lemon Squeezy25 of 891Compare →

2Checkout24 of 890Compare →

Stripe18 of 890Not among the top eight

Gumroad9 of 890Compare →

Polar8 of 890Not among the top eight

Stripe Managed Payments7 of 890Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Cleverbridge. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 88 of the 89 answers that named Cleverbridge and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

grow.cleverbridge.comYour site80

freemius.com65

guideflow.com61

paddle.com46

dodopayments.com43

fintechspecs.com35

fungies.io26

ebrands.com24

quaderno.io22

blog.2checkout.com19

341 of the 421 domain citations in answers naming Cleverbridge came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/merchant-of-record-software61

grow.cleverbridge.com/blog/top-merchant-of-record-providers-202659

freemius.com/blog/best-merchant-of-record-providers-saas-stage50

freemius.com/blog/best-merchant-of-record-software-developers39

grow.cleverbridge.com/blog/how-to-choose-the-right-merchant-of-record-provider33

dodopayments.com/blogs/best-merchant-of-record-platforms30

paddle.com/resources/how-to-evaluate-a-merchant-of-record28

fintechspecs.com/blog/enterprise-merchant-of-record-saas-net-terms26

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

cleverbridge.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Cleverbridge takes 17% of first choices and Paddle takes 28%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “merchant of record”

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not in the top ten

Position for “merchants of record”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 6,600 a month (“cleverbridge”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 246 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 9,493 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 760 · 95 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,582
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

12 ads · 12 text · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown January 2025, as DASSAULT SYSTEMES, verified. 7 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

17%

rank 2 of 45 in merchants of record

Segment leader

28%

Paddle

First choices: 29 across its categories
Named in: 89 answers
Its own site cited: in 88 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on cleverbridge.com

274

subdomains included

Content

163

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

42 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	115	2	2026-08-26	Merchants of record
News or press	39	0	2025-03-31
Comparison	4	0	2026-05-29	Merchants of record
Glossary or explainer	3	0	2023-06-14
Report or ebook	1	undated
Template or tool	1	undated

Most recent

2026-08-26Cost of selling software kyle poyar blog
2026-07-21Partner led digital buying paths blog
2026-06-30Influencer marketing software brands blog
2026-05-29Stripe alternative merchant of record comparison
2026-04-07Digital buying b2b software blog
2026-03-02Migrating to cleverbridge blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page cleverbridge.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.

Follow Cleverbridge

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Cleverbridge is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Merchant of Record and digital commerce platform for software, SaaS and digital product businesses
cleverbridge.com
For: software, SaaS and digital product businesses
cleverbridge.com
Certifications: PCI-DSSGDPRCCPA
Hosting: Worldwide
Customers named: PleskCynclySUSEAshampooRed HatShureParallels
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations

What Cleverbridge's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: cleverbridge.com, cleverbridge.com/corporate/technology/security, cleverbridge.com/corporate/solutions/pricing, cleverbridge.com/corporate/company/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 Cleverbridge'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 Cleverbridge, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cleverbridge by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cleverbridge is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Cleverbridge, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Cleverbridge is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Cleverbridge is among the products AI models recommend first in Merchants of record this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://finance-ai-index.com/receivables/merchants-of-record/"><img src="https://finance-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cleverbridge--merchants-of-record-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Merchants of record, October 2026 Edition, Finance AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Merchants of record standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://finance-ai-index.com/receivables/merchants-of-record/"><img src="https://finance-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cleverbridge--merchants-of-record-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Merchants of record, October 2026 Edition, Finance AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Merchants of record standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://finance-ai-index.com/receivables/merchants-of-record/"><img src="https://finance-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/cleverbridge--merchants-of-record-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Merchants of record, October 2026 Edition, Finance AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Merchants of record standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.