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Index Vendors › Helcim · September 2026 Edition
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Helcim

62Judge labels
24First choices
0Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
35% in B2B payment acceptance for small business buyers
Rank 1 of 91 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 20 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In b2b payment acceptance · 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 Helcim 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
B2B payment acceptanceReceivables and billing17%1 of 910%20accepted challenger
Accounting softwareAccounting and close0%21 of 560%1under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 40%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Helcim 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 Helcim 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 Flash11002
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast10304
Mistral Small13004
DeepSeek V4 Flash12003
Llama 4 Maverick10001
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K220002
GLM 4.7 FlashX10001
MiniMax M2.520002

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
Direct15 labels9
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative11 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained25 labels15
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative5 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative62 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 30 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 processors (like Helcim or specialized high-risk merchant providers) that perform manual underwriting *before* you process payments” Gemini 3.5 Flash · B2B payment acceptance · negative prompt · first choice
“For most B2B businesses with a limited budget, Helcim is the best all‑around choice due to zero monthly fees” GLM 4.7 FlashX · B2B payment acceptance · budget prompt · first choice
“Helcim is frequently recommended as the best overall B2B payment acceptance platform for small businesses” Mistral Small · B2B payment acceptance · budget prompt · first choice
“Helcim \u2013 Best Overall Value ... if you process significant volume and want the lowest overall costs” Kimi K2 · B2B payment acceptance · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Helcim, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Helcim was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Stripe50 of 626Not in the top three
Melio37 of 6210Not in the top three
BILL25 of 622Not in the top three
Plooto18 of 621Not in the top three
Stax15 of 622Not in the top three
PayPal13 of 621Not in the top three
Square13 of 621Not in the top three
QuickBooks Payments12 of 620Not in the top three
Adyen11 of 621Not in the top three
Authorize.net10 of 620Not 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 Helcim. 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 56 of the 62 answers that named Helcim and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com47
techrepublic.com44
fitsmallbusiness.com38
factura.ai33
connectpay.com22
alltopbusiness.com20
helcim.comYour site19
nerdwallet.com19
highradius.com16
walletinvestor.com16

255 of the 274 domain citations in answers naming Helcim came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Helcim

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Helcim; a claim can dispute any of them.
Adyen/Helcim 1
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Claim this page

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 Helcim'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 Helcim, 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 helcim.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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