Every category where a model named Esker 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
Cash application	Receivables and billing	7%	6 of 83	27%	22	criticized challenger
B2B credit management	Receivables and billing	2%	12 of 82	25%	16	criticized challenger
Accounts receivable automation	Receivables and billing	0%	22 of 77	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Zoho Books at 15%
Global e-invoicing compliance	Tax and compliance	0%	36 of 108	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Avalara at 28%
Supplier management	Spend and procurement	0%	30 of 80	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 26%
Invoicing software	Receivables and billing	0%	53 of 86	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wave at 19%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	2	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	2	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	2	3	7
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	3	2	6
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	2	1	6
Mistral Small	0	1	2	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2	2	2	8
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	0	3	0	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	1	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	0	2

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

Direct39 labels3

Paraphrase12 labelsNone

Comparative58 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained23 labels2

Scale-constrained14 labels1

Negative21 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative167 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 8 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.

“1. Esker (G2: 4.3–4.5/5; Gartner Leader in Invoice-to-Cash 2024) ... Enterprise-grade AI automation for cash matching” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cash application · direct prompt · first choice

“Choose HighRadius or Esker if you want a full enterprise credit-to-cash suite” Perplexity Sonar · B2B credit management · comparative prompt · first choice

“Esker or HighRadius are the safest bets if you want a proven, scalable platform” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cash application · direct prompt · first choice

“Kolleno and Esker are strong, mid‑market‑focused all‑rounders.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cash application · 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.

“Avoid enterprise-heavy tools like Oracle/Esker unless you're scaling fast; they add overhead.” Grok 4.1 Fast · B2B credit management · direct prompt · hard negative

“Avoid enterprise suites like HighRadius or Esker if budget is the main constraint” Perplexity Sonar · B2B credit management · budget prompt · hard negative

“Avoid the usual enterprise leaders like HighRadius, Billtrust, and Esker” Perplexity Sonar · Cash application · budget prompt · hard negative

“Enterprise-class, custom-priced, typically six figures annually.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cash application · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Esker, over the 167 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Esker was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Billtrust105 of 1674Not in the top three

HighRadius95 of 16748Not in the top three

Versapay57 of 1673Not in the top three

HighRadius Credit Cloud51 of 16728Not in the top three

BlackLine Cash Application40 of 1671Not in the top three

Tesorio35 of 1671Not in the top three

Serrala34 of 1671Not in the top three

Sidetrade30 of 1670Not in the top three

Rex26 of 1672Not in the top three

Gaviti25 of 1675Not 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 Esker. 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 146 of the 167 answers that named Esker and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

highradius.com102

worldmetrics.org77

chaserhq.com63

rex.inc61

lunos.ai43

stuut.ai43

upflow.io43

cashbook.com41

nuvo.com41

learn.g2.com39

553 of the 553 domain citations in answers naming Esker came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

highradius.com/resources/Blog/best-cash-application-automation-tools45

cashbook.com/best-cash-application-tools-2026-official-guide40

upflow.io/software/best-cash-application-software39

guideflow.com/blog/credit-management-software38

nuvo.com/resources/credit-management-software36

creditpulse.com/blog/best-credit-management-software35

lunos.ai/blog/best-cash-application-software35

rex.inc/resources/comparisons/best-cash-application-software35

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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