Every category where a model named Digital River 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	0%	45 of 45	64%	11	criticized challenger

Movement

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

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

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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative13 labelsNone

Budget-constrained8 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative12 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative42 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“worth evaluating if you're mid-market/enterprise and need broader cross-border commerce support” GPT-5.4 mini · Merchants of record · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Enterprise-scale → Cleverbridge or Digital River” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Merchants of record · 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.

“Digital River appears to have been insolvent for months, withholding creators' revenue for at least 3 months. This is a significant red flag.” MiniMax M2.5 · Merchants of record · negative prompt · hard negative

“Digital River collapsed in early 2025... Avoid any legacy services or surviving subsidiaries associated with Digital River.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Merchants of record · negative prompt · hard negative

“Status: Shut down its MoR business in January 2025 - No longer operating as a merchant of record” Kimi K2 · Merchants of record · comparative prompt · hard negative

“wound down its ecommerce and MoR operations in January 2025, which is a cautionary reminder” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Merchants of record · direct prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Digital River, over the 42 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Digital River was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Paddle36 of 4214Not among the top eight

FastSpring30 of 422Not among the top eight

Cleverbridge29 of 4216Not among the top eight

PayPro Global22 of 421Not among the top eight

2Checkout16 of 421Not among the top eight

Lemon Squeezy15 of 420Not among the top eight

Dodo Payments6 of 420Not among the top eight

Stripe5 of 421Not among the top eight

Gumroad5 of 420Not among the top eight

Polar5 of 420Not 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 Digital River. 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 41 of the 42 answers that named Digital River and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dodopayments.com28

freemius.com26

grow.cleverbridge.com26

paddle.com23

guideflow.com21

fintechspecs.com17

getsphere.com13

resources.rework.com11

numeral.com10

easy.tools9

184 of the 184 domain citations in answers naming Digital River came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dodopayments.com/blogs/best-merchant-of-record-platforms21

grow.cleverbridge.com/blog/top-merchant-of-record-providers-202621

guideflow.com/blog/merchant-of-record-software21

freemius.com/blog/best-merchant-of-record-providers-saas-stage18

freemius.com/blog/best-merchant-of-record-software-developers15

fintechspecs.com/blog/enterprise-merchant-of-record-saas-net-terms14

getsphere.com/blog/merchant-of-record13

paddle.com/resources/how-to-evaluate-a-merchant-of-record11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

digitalriver.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Digital River takes 0% 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: 1,000 a month (“digital river”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 111 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 280 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 114 · 5 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 6,846
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 45 of 45 in merchants of record

Segment leader

28%

Paddle

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 42 answers
Its own site cited: in 41 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.

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where Digital River 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 Digital River, 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;
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