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Engine

23Judge labels
3First choices
1Negative labels
9 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Corporate travel managem for small business buyers
Rank 5 of 60 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In corporate travel managem · 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 Engine 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Corporate travel managementSpend and procurement4%5 of 600%7under 10 labels · led by Navan at 51%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Engine 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 Engine across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast11002
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash10001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.510001

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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative6 labelsNone
Budget-constrained8 labels3
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative4 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative23 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“Engine (free, no contract, with corporate rates and consolidated billing) if you want a more robust managed solution without fees” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Corporate travel managem · budget prompt · first choice
“If you want completely free: Routespring or Engine” MiniMax M2.5 · Corporate travel managem · budget prompt · first choice
“Prioritize highly rated ones like Engine (free, good reviews)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Corporate travel managem · negative prompt · first choice
“Perk or Engine: Free/low-cost, hotel-focused savings (up to 26%), easy start.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Corporate travel managem · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Engine, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Engine was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Navan19 of 234Not in the top three
TravelPerk19 of 233Not in the top three
SAP Concur13 of 233Not in the top three
Booking.com for Business12 of 232Not in the top three
Ramp11 of 231Not in the top three
Brex9 of 231Not in the top three
Amex GBT Egencia5 of 230Not in the top three
TravelBank4 of 232Not in the top three
BCD Travel4 of 230Not in the top three
Zoho Expense4 of 230Not 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 Engine. 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 20 of the 23 answers that named Engine and are not a share of its labels.

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