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5 categories · Named, not ranked

GnuCash

13Judge labels
1First choices
4Negative labels
6 of 12Models named it
5Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
8 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. GnuCash was named 8 times in Accounting software and 4 other categories, where Sage Intacct led with 40%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In accounting software · 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 GnuCash 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
Accounting softwareAccounting and close2%8 of 5650%2under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 40%
Account reconciliationAccounting and close0%61 of 7250%2under 10 labels · led by FloQast at 33%
Financial consolidationAccounting and close0%90 of 9650%2under 10 labels · led by Prophix at 19%
Financial reporting and dashboardsPlanning and analysis0%52 of 1330%1under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 27%
Fixed asset accountingAccounting and close0%51 of 940%1under 10 labels · led by Sage Fixed Assets at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for GnuCash 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 GnuCash across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00011
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00112
Llama 4 Maverick10001
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201012
GLM 4.7 FlashX01102
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained13 labels1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 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.

“GnuCash or Wave Starter, which are free.” Llama 4 Maverick · Accounting software · budget prompt · first choice
“If you need robust, offline reporting with no subscription: Choose GnuCash.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Financial reporting · budget prompt · alternative
“Best for: Very small businesses with simple needs” Kimi K2 · Fixed asset accounting · budget 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.

“it has a steeper learning curve and is less user-friendly for beginners” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Accounting software · budget prompt · soft negative
“Not ideal for true multi-entity consolidation” Kimi K2 · Financial consolidation · budget prompt · soft negative
“Not ideal for teams/multi-user.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Account reconciliation · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as GnuCash, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GnuCash was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Wave9 of 135Not in the top three
Xero8 of 130Not in the top three
Akaunting7 of 131Not in the top three
QuickBooks Online6 of 130Not in the top three
Zoho Books5 of 133Not in the top three
ERPNext3 of 131Not in the top three
Manager.io3 of 130Not in the top three
Patriot Software3 of 130Not in the top three
AssetAccountant2 of 131Not in the top three
Bigcapital2 of 130Not 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 GnuCash. 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 13 of the 13 answers that named GnuCash and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

thecfoclub.com6
gnucash.orgYour site5
softwareadvice.com5
capterra.com4
finance.yahoo.com4
fitsmallbusiness.com4
pcmag.com4
sourceforge.net4
toolradar.com4
uschamber.com4

Thirty-nine of the forty-four domain citations in answers naming GnuCash came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at gnucash.org is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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