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Index › Vendors › NBKC · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

NBKC

16Judge labels

4First choices

0Negative labels

8 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

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. NBKC was named 7 times in Business banking, where Mercury led with 20%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business14 of 64

under the label threshold

Mid-market6 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprise15 of 99

under the label threshold

In business banking · 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 NBKC 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
Business banking	Treasury and cash	8%	6 of 78	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Mercury at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for NBKC 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 NBKC 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	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
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

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained10 labels4

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.

“NBKC Bank is the strongest pick because it's completely fee-free with no minimums” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Business banking · budget prompt · first choice

“Go with NBKC Business Checking for a traditional, no-fee experience.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Business banking · budget prompt · first choice

“NBKC or Bluevine for general small business use” Kimi K2 · Business banking · budget prompt · first choice

“Consider highly rated alternatives: Bluevine, Mercury, Axos, NBKC (low fees, good reviews in Forbes/NerdWallet 2024-2026)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Business banking · negative 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 NBKC, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and NBKC was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Bluevine15 of 168Not in the top three

Mercury11 of 161Not in the top three

Novo10 of 162Not in the top three

Axos Bank9 of 160Not in the top three

Relay8 of 162Not in the top three

Chase Business Banking7 of 160Not in the top three

U.S. Bank7 of 160Not in the top three

Bank of America5 of 160Not in the top three

American Express Business Checking4 of 160Not in the top three

Capital One4 of 160Not 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 NBKC. 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 16 of the 16 answers that named NBKC and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

finder.com15

nerdwallet.com15

forbes.com11

techrepublic.com9

airwallex.com8

found.com8

handelsblatt.com8

wise.com7

smallbusinesstools.org5

usnews.com5

Ninety-one of the ninety-one domain citations in answers naming NBKC came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

forbes.com/financial-services/best-business-checking-accounts10

handelsblatt.com/geschaeftskonto/vergleich8

techrepublic.com/article/best-small-business-checking-accounts8

finder.com/business-banking/free-business-checking7

finder.com/business-banking/banks-for-small-business6

finder.com/business-banking/business-checking6

found.com/resources/business-banking/best-business-bank-accounts-small-business6

wise.com/us/business/best-free-checking-accounts6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as NBKC

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

NBKC Business Checking 2NBKC Bank 1NBKC Bank Business Checking 1nbkc 1nbkc Business Account 1

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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 NBKC'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 NBKC, 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 nbkc.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.