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Kayak · 1 category · Named, not ranked

KAYAK for Business

6Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

6 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.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. KAYAK for Business was named 1 time in Corporate travel managem, where Navan led with 51%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business36 of 41

under the label threshold

Mid-market36 of 60

under the label threshold

Enterprise23 of 35

under the label threshold

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 KAYAK for Business 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
Corporate travel management	Spend and procurement	0%	36 of 60	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Navan at 51%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“failed to show taxes and resort fees on the cheapest listings, leading to much higher final bills” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Corporate travel managem · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as KAYAK for Business, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and KAYAK for Business was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TravelPerk6 of 63Not in the top three

Navan5 of 61Not in the top three

SAP Concur4 of 62Not in the top three

Booking.com for Business4 of 60Not in the top three

Expedia for Business4 of 60Not in the top three

American Express Global Business Travel3 of 60Not in the top three

Engine2 of 60Not in the top three

Agoda1 of 60Not in the top three

Airbnb1 of 60Not in the top three

BCD Travel1 of 60Not 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 KAYAK for Business. 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 4 of the 6 answers that named KAYAK for Business and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com4

rippling.com4

learn.g2.com3

ottotheagent.com3

gartner.com2

myhospitalnow.com2

navan.com2

rfp.wiki2

routespring.com2

5wpr.com1

Twenty-five of the twenty-five domain citations in answers naming KAYAK for Business came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

g2.com/categories/travel-management3

learn.g2.com/best-travel-management-software3

rippling.com/blog/small-business-travel-management-software3

gartner.com/reviews/market/corporate-travel-management-software2

ottotheagent.com/blog/small-business-travel-management2

rfp.wiki/hr-office/corporate-travel/travelperk2

routespring.com/why-enterprise-travel-solutions-fail-at-mid-market-companies2

5wpr.com/new/real-time-reputation-management-for-travel-brands1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as KAYAK for Business

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as KAYAK for Business; a claim can dispute any of them.

Kayak 1

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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 kayak.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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