Finance AI Index
Index Vendors › Payhawk · September 2026 Edition
6 categories · Ranked

Payhawk

71Judge labels
2First choices
5Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
6Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Spend management platfor for enterprise buyers
Rank 8 of 39 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 16 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In spend management platfor · 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 Payhawk 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
Spend management platformsSpend and procurement0%8 of 390%16accepted challenger
Expense managementSpend and procurement0%19 of 460%4under 10 labels · led by Ramp at 34%
Corporate cardsSpend and procurement0%20 of 630%2under 10 labels · led by Ramp at 69%
Supplier managementSpend and procurement0%31 of 800%2under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 26%
Accounts payable automationSpend and procurement0%50 of 600%1under 10 labels · led by Stampli at 19%
AI accounting assistantsAccounting and close0%44 of 790%1under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 25%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Payhawk 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 Payhawk across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501102
GPT-5.4 mini03003
Gemini 3.5 Flash00202
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast03205
Mistral Small02002
DeepSeek V4 Flash04105
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
MiniMax M2.501102

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
Direct13 labels1
Paraphrase8 labelsNone
Comparative20 labelsNone
Budget-constrained4 labels1
Scale-constrained15 labelsNone
Negative11 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative71 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.

“Payhawk is for mid-market finance teams that want supplier data tied directly to spend, approvals, and payments” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Supplier management · direct prompt · alternative
“a good fit if you need more procurement + vendor control + multi-module spend management” GPT-5.4 mini · Spend management platfor · direct prompt · alternative
“Payhawk / Spendesk — Strong if you're in Europe (multi-currency, EUR/GBP/etc.).” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Spend management platfor · scale prompt · alternative
“Payhawk excels at multi-entity spend, ERP sync, and native foreign currencies.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Spend management platfor · paraphrase 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 Payhawk, over the 71 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Payhawk was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Ramp60 of 7121Not in the top three
Brex47 of 715Not in the top three
Coupa34 of 719Not in the top three
BILL Spend & Expense28 of 712Not in the top three
Airbase28 of 711Not in the top three
SAP Concur26 of 716Not in the top three
Emburse24 of 710Not in the top three
Spendesk21 of 712Not in the top three
Navan19 of 710Not in the top three
Rippling Spend18 of 712Not 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 Payhawk. 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 69 of the 71 answers that named Payhawk and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

emburse.com35
gartner.com35
learn.g2.com27
payhawk.comYour site23
zylo.com23
ramp.com22
spendesk.com19
worldmetrics.org18
ofx.com16
rippling.com16

211 of the 234 domain citations in answers naming Payhawk came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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