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Index › Vendors › Kick · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Kick

5Judge labels

3First choices

0Negative labels

4 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

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Kick was named 4 times in AI accounting assistants, where Sage Intacct led with 25%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business14 of 57

under the label threshold

Mid-market8 of 79

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In ai accounting assistants · 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 Kick 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
AI accounting assistants	Accounting and close	5%	8 of 79	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 25%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels3

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“If you have very low transaction volume: → Kick ... Genuine free tier (up to 250 transactions/year) with no credit card required.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI accounting assistants · budget prompt · first choice

“Kick (Best Overall for Micro-Budgets & High Automation)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI accounting assistants · budget prompt · first choice

“Kick has a free tier with up to 250 transactions per year” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI accounting assistants · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Kick, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kick was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zoho Books5 of 52Not in the top three

QuickBooks Online4 of 50Not in the top three

Xero4 of 50Not in the top three

Bookeeping.ai3 of 50Not in the top three

FreshBooks3 of 50Not in the top three

Puzzle3 of 50Not in the top three

Wave3 of 50Not in the top three

Zeni3 of 50Not in the top three

Bench2 of 50Not in the top three

Pilot2 of 50Not 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 Kick. 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 3 of the 5 answers that named Kick and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

jupid.com3

startupowl.com3

dualentry.com2

gotofu.com2

intuit.com2

weareocta.com2

aibookkeepingtools.com1

articsledge.com1

bestaiaccounting.com1

cashflowy.ai1

Eighteen of the eighteen domain citations in answers naming Kick came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

jupid.com/blog/best-ai-bookkeeping-tools-20263

startupowl.com/setup/ai-bookkeeping-for-small-business3

dualentry.com/blog/best-ai-accounting-software2

gotofu.com/blog/best-ai-bookkeeping-software2

intuit.com/blog/innovative-thinking/best-ai-accounting-software-tools2

weareocta.com/resources/best/ai-bookkeeping-software-for-small-firms2

aibookkeepingtools.com/posts/ai-bookkeeping-software-pricing-guide-2025-cost-breakdown1

articsledge.com/post/ai-accounting-software-small-business1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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

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