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Index Vendors › ERPNext · September 2026 Edition
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ERPNext

63Judge labels
15First choices
7Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
6Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
16% in ERP systems for small business buyers
Rank 5 of 70 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 6% of its 16 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In erp systems · 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 ERPNext 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
ERP systemsAccounting and close11%5 of 706%16accepted challenger
Financial consolidationAccounting and close2%12 of 960%1under 10 labels · led by Prophix at 19%
Supplier managementSpend and procurement2%13 of 800%2under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 26%
Corporate performance managementPlanning and analysis0%83 of 95100%1under 10 labels · led by Planful at 29%
Fixed asset accountingAccounting and close0%47 of 940%1under 10 labels · led by Sage Fixed Assets at 29%
Procure-to-paySpend and procurement0%35 of 850%1under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ERPNext 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 ERPNext 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 mini10001
Gemini 3.5 Flash10012
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast10113
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K222004
GLM 4.7 FlashX21003
MiniMax M2.501102

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
Direct6 labels1
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative12 labelsNone
Budget-constrained32 labels14
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative8 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative63 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 of the 16 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.

“Choose ERPNext if you want a complete, 100% free ERP (no paywalled features) and have someone on your team who understands basic software deployment/hosting.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ERP systems · budget prompt · first choice
“ERPNext is the standout here. It is the only truly free option that handles multi-company consolidation” Kimi K2 · Financial consolidation · budget prompt · first choice
“Choose Open-Source (ERPNext/Odoo) if: You have internal IT resources to host and maintain” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Supplier management · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with ERPNext if you have basic IT skills and want maximum cost savings” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ERP systems · budget 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.

“Odoo / ERPNext: These open-source or open-core systems... rendering the system unstable” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ERP systems · negative prompt · soft negative
“free community edition), but they require dev setup—not plug-and-play” Grok 4.1 Fast · Corporate performance ma · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ERPNext, over the 63 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ERPNext was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Odoo57 of 6316Not in the top three
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central44 of 6311Not in the top three
Oracle NetSuite39 of 633Not in the top three
Zoho One32 of 632Not in the top three
SAP Business One26 of 630Not in the top three
Acumatica22 of 633Not in the top three
Sage Intacct22 of 632Not in the top three
QuickBooks15 of 630Not in the top three
Katana14 of 630Not in the top three
Cin713 of 630Not 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 ERPNext. 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 52 of the 63 answers that named ERPNext and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

erpresearch.com37
dynamicssquare.com32
forbes.com32
topdynamicspartners.com31
softwareconnect.com22
cin7.com11
cudio.com10
top10erp.org10
capterra.com9
erp-pilot.com9

203 of the 203 domain citations in answers naming ERPNext came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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