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Index Vendors › Pleo · September 2026 Edition
4 categories · Ranked

Pleo

29Judge labels
1First choices
6Negative labels
9 of 12Models named it
4Categories
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 Expense management for mid-market buyers
Rank 12 of 46 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 6 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In expense management · 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 Pleo 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
Expense managementSpend and procurement2%12 of 460%6under 10 labels · led by Ramp at 34%
Corporate travel managementSpend and procurement0%17 of 600%2under 10 labels · led by Navan at 51%
Spend management platformsSpend and procurement0%17 of 390%2under 10 labels · led by Ramp at 49%
Corporate cardsSpend and procurement0%49 of 63100%1under 10 labels · led by Ramp at 69%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Pleo 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 Pleo 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 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash00011
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash12104
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01102
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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase6 labels1
Comparative7 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Pleo has gained significant traction recently as a top overall pick because it combines corporate cards with expense reporting in one seamless app.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Expense management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Best for guided expense submission with card reconciliation and policy enforcement, particularly suitable for European SMBs” Mistral Small · Expense management · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Modern platforms (e.g., Ramp, Spendesk, Pleo, Trigo) handle both better than legacy reporters.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Expense management · negative prompt · alternative
“Pleo shines when you prioritize tight policy control and expense reconciliation” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Corporate travel managem · 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.

“~$45+/mo | Only if your company is in Europe and needs automation (paid)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Corporate cards · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Pleo, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pleo was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Ramp25 of 297Not in the top three
Brex20 of 290Not in the top three
Expensify17 of 294Not in the top three
BILL Spend & Expense15 of 293Not in the top three
SAP Concur14 of 292Not in the top three
Spendesk13 of 292Not in the top three
Navan10 of 293Not in the top three
Rippling Spend5 of 292Not in the top three
Coupa5 of 291Not in the top three
Airbase5 of 290Not 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 Pleo. 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 26 of the 29 answers that named Pleo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.g2.com19
gartner.com16
emburse.com11
ramp.com9
airwallex.com8
g2.com8
navan.com8
spendesk.com8
ofx.com7
rippling.com7

101 of the 101 domain citations in answers naming Pleo came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Pleo

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Pleo; a claim can dispute any of them.
Pleo Travel 1
Is this your product?

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 Pleo'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 Pleo, 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 pleo.io 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.