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Numeral

32Judge labels
2First choices
6Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Sales tax automation for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 38 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 10 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In sales tax automation · 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 Numeral 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Sales tax automationTax and compliance2%5 of 3820%10accepted challenger
Revenue recognitionAccounting and close0%34 of 770%2under 10 labels · led by Maxio at 15%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Numeral 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 Numeral across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash02002
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00011
Mistral Small11103
DeepSeek V4 Flash00112
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01102
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative13 labelsNone
Budget-constrained7 labels2
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative10 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative32 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“TaxCloud and Numeral are often cited as the most affordable and user-friendly options” Mistral Small · Sales tax automation · budget prompt · first choice
“Automates revenue recognition for subscription and contract-based businesses, which can be cost-effective” Mistral Small · Revenue recognition · budget prompt · alternative
“Look for platforms (like Zamp, Numeral, or TaxCloud) that offer human tax experts” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Sales tax automation · negative prompt · alternative
“Numeral: Best Pay-Per-Filing Option for Low-State Footprints” Gemini 3.5 Flash · 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.

“Reddit "horror stories" of misfilings. Steer clear for multi-state ops” Grok 4.1 Fast · Sales tax automation · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid if you rely on them for guaranteed, error-free filing.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Sales tax automation · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Numeral, over the 32 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Numeral was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
TaxJar24 of 326Not in the top three
TaxCloud23 of 326Not in the top three
Avalara AvaTax22 of 322Not in the top three
Vertex14 of 320Not in the top three
Stripe Tax13 of 320Not in the top three
Anrok12 of 320Not in the top three
Quaderno11 of 320Not in the top three
Zamp9 of 321Not in the top three
Kintsugi9 of 320Not in the top three
Sovos8 of 320Not 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 Numeral. 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 29 of the 32 answers that named Numeral and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

taxcloud.com25
zamp.com17
galvix.com14
learn.g2.com13
quaderno.io11
taxjar.com11
techrepublic.com11
worldmetrics.org10
g2.com9
guideflow.com8

129 of the 129 domain citations in answers naming Numeral came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 Numeral'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 Numeral, 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 numeral.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.