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NICE Actimize

106Judge labels

17First choices

41Negative labels

14 / 14Models named it

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October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

36% in AML monitoring for enterprise buyers

Rank 93 of 108 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger

0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 46% of its 28 labels there were negative.

What the models named instead of NICE Actimize →

By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business or mid-market.

Small business81 of 81

criticized challenger

Mid-market93 of 108

criticized challenger

Enterprise1 of 108

endorsed leader

In aml monitoring · 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 NICE Actimize 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	Since September 2026
AML and transaction monitoring	Tax and compliance	0%	93 of 108	46%	28	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for NICE Actimize yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated NICE Actimize across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	2	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	2	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	2	1	4
Mistral Small	0	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	2	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1	2
Kimi K2	0	0	2	2	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1	1	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	1	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	1	2	3

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

Direct16 labels6

Paraphrase14 labels6

Comparative24 labels11not counted in share

Budget-constrained15 labels5

Scale-constrained11 labelsNone

Negative26 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative106 labels in all, every segment counted; 17 of the 28 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.

“Best known as a broad enterprise AML suite... Large bank / complex compliance program: NICE Actimize, SAS” GPT-5.4 mini · AML monitoring · comparative prompt · first choice

“Enterprise banks with complex legacy systems tend to stick with NICE Actimize or FICO” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AML monitoring · comparative prompt · first choice

“The "Gold Standard" for Global Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs).” Qwen 3.7 Flash · AML monitoring · comparative prompt · first choice

“Frequently top-ranked (e.g., #1 in some 2024/2025 lists for AI-powered real-time detection, investigation, reporting).” Grok 4.1 Fast · AML monitoring · comparative 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.

“Legacy/Traditional Platforms to Avoid ... NICE Actimize & Oracle Mantas - False positive rates: 85-99% of alerts are false positives” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AML monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative

“Described as a legacy enterprise AML standard, "deep, mature, expensive, slow to change," with public critiques noting high false positives, clunky UX, long deployments” Perplexity Sonar · AML monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

“Industry giants like NICE Actimize, Oracle Mantas, SAS AML, and FICO Siron ... notoriously difficult for smaller or mid-market organizations.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AML monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

“Overly Complex Enterprise Suites for Small/Mid-Size Teams (e.g., some modular setups like NICE Actimize or Oracle in mismatched deployments)” Grok 4.1 Fast · AML monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as NICE Actimize, over the 106 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and NICE Actimize was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ComplyAdvantage66 of 1068Not among the top eight

Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance Management40 of 1064Not among the top eight

Unit2129 of 1064Not among the top eight

SAS Anti-Money Laundering25 of 1065Not among the top eight

LexisNexis Risk Solutions24 of 1061Not among the top eight

SAS24 of 1061Not among the top eight

Feedzai20 of 1061Not among the top eight

SAS AML20 of 1060Not among the top eight

Alessa19 of 1061Not among the top eight

Quantexa19 of 1061Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 NICE Actimize. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 106 of the 106 answers that named NICE Actimize and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

fraud.net51

bureau.id44

sphinxhq.com43

ondato.com37

fraudio.com34

guideflow.com33

amlwatcher.com32

gartner.com27

g2.com26

learn.g2.com26

353 of the 353 domain citations in answers naming NICE Actimize came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bureau.id/resources/blog/transaction-monitoring-software44

sphinxhq.com/blog-posts/best-aml-software40

ondato.com/blog/best-aml-software36

guideflow.com/blog/aml-software33

amlwatcher.com/blog/aml-software-vendors27

riskpublishing.com/best-anti-money-laundering-aml-software-compa26

learn.g2.com/best-anti-money-laundering-software25

pwc.com/gx/en/news-room/assets/analyst-citations/chartis_aml_transaction_monitoring-soluti19

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

niceactimize.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, NICE Actimize takes 0% of first choices and ComplyAdvantage takes 33%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “aml and transaction monitoring platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “aml and transaction monitoring platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 3,600 a month (“nice actimize”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 32 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 37,015 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 3,208 · 212 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 2,930
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

3 ads · 3 text · 2 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2025, as NICE LTD., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 2 in the year, 1 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 93 of 108 in AML monitoring

Segment leader

33%

ComplyAdvantage

First choices: 17 across its categories
Named in: 106 answers
Its own site cited: in 106 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on niceactimize.com

1,564

subdomains included

Content

1,114

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 3

Kind	Pages	Latest
Blog	643	2025-09-17
News or press	385	2025-06-27
Glossary or explainer	43	2025-11-05
Webinar or virtual event	13	2025-09-03
Conference or event	10	2023-09-11
Comparison	10	2026-01-14
Report or ebook	6	2025-09-18
Template or tool	3	2025-09-09
Case study	1	2025-06-30

Most recent

2026-01-14Kyc systems buy vs build a strategic decision for financial institutions comparison
2025-11-05Financial fraud glossary or explainer
2025-09-18Three essential steps to a better fiu nice actimize and chartis white paper 41 report or ebook
2025-09-17Enterprise risk case management update 2024 blog
2025-09-17Solution demos and videos blog
2025-09-09Time to clear alert calculator template or tool

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page niceactimize.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as NICE Actimize

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

Nice Actimize 1

Follow NICE Actimize

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

NICE Actimize is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: AI-driven fraud prevention and AML solutions that help financial institutions detect financial crime, reduce risk and meet regulatory compliance
niceactimize.com
For: financial institutions
niceactimize.com
Customers named: DNB Norway
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What NICE Actimize's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: niceactimize.com, niceactimize.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 NICE Actimize'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 NICE Actimize, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for NICE Actimize by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where NICE Actimize is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name NICE Actimize, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.