Every category where a model named Kintsugi 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
Sales tax automation	Tax and compliance	0%	13 of 38	0%	10	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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

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

Direct4 labels2

Paraphrase7 labels1

Comparative9 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 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.

“Kintsugi and TaxCloud are worth a look for teams specifically looking for budget-friendly sales tax software for small business.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Sales tax automation · budget prompt · alternative

“Other options include Kintsugi, TaxJar, Zoho Books, and Quaderno” Llama 4 Maverick · Sales tax automation · budget prompt · alternative

“If you're in SaaS, Kintsugi is also worth considering.” Mistral Small · Sales tax automation · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Another budget-friendly option for smaller businesses” MiniMax M2.5 · Sales tax automation · 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 Kintsugi, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kintsugi was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TaxJar23 of 305Not in the top three

TaxCloud18 of 307Not in the top three

Avalara AvaTax16 of 304Not in the top three

Anrok13 of 300Not in the top three

Vertex12 of 301Not in the top three

Zamp11 of 300Not in the top three

Numeral9 of 300Not in the top three

Quaderno8 of 300Not in the top three

Stripe Tax8 of 300Not in the top three

Zoho Books6 of 301Not 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 Kintsugi. 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 28 of the 30 answers that named Kintsugi and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

taxcloud.com21

zamp.com21

galvix.com16

learn.g2.com12

quaderno.io12

techrepublic.com12

guideflow.com11

taxjar.com9

avalara.com7

taxwire.com7

128 of the 128 domain citations in answers naming Kintsugi came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

taxcloud.com/blog/sales-tax-compliance-software18

galvix.com/article/best-sales-tax-software13

learn.g2.com/best-sales-tax-compliance-software12

techrepublic.com/article/best-sales-tax-software12

quaderno.io/blog/us-sales-tax/top-sales-tax-software11

zamp.com/blog/best-sales-tax-software-and-how-to-choose11

zamp.com/blog/sales-tax-compliance-software10

taxjar.com/blog/2026-sales-tax-software-comparison8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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