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Index Vendors › Plooto · September 2026 Edition
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Plooto

65Judge labels
3First choices
6Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
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 Business bill pay for small business buyers
Rank 25 of 91 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 5 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In b2b payment acceptance · 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 Plooto 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
B2B payment acceptanceReceivables and billing0%25 of 9120%5under 10 labels · led by Helcim at 17%
Business bill payTreasury and cash0%13 of 690%4under 10 labels · led by BILL at 35%
Cash applicationReceivables and billing0%48 of 830%1under 10 labels · led by HighRadius at 16%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Plooto 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 Plooto 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 Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small02002
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00011
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
MiniMax M2.503003

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
Direct14 labelsNone
Paraphrase13 labels1
Comparative14 labelsNone
Budget-constrained12 labels2
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative8 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative65 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 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.

“the administrative burden of accounts payable and receivable, Plooto is a strong contender.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · B2B payment acceptance · direct prompt · alternative
“Plooto if you're a smaller mid-sized team mainly looking for simple AP/AR automation” Perplexity Sonar · Business bill pay · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“then upgrade to Plooto at $24/month if you need more advanced cash application features” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cash application · budget prompt · alternative
“Plooto (or Tipalti for payouts) can complement your acceptance platform.” MiniMax M2.5 · B2B payment acceptance · direct 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.

“Avoid Platforms like BILL or Plooto (initially) if budget is your *only* concern” Qwen 3.7 Flash · B2B payment acceptance · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Plooto, over the 65 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Plooto was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
BILL50 of 6512Not in the top three
Melio43 of 6517Not in the top three
Ramp24 of 656Not in the top three
Helcim18 of 6511Not in the top three
Stripe18 of 650Not in the top three
Tipalti10 of 651Not in the top three
QuickBooks Bill Pay9 of 653Not in the top three
HighRadius8 of 652Not in the top three
QuickBooks Payments7 of 650Not in the top three
Zoho Books6 of 652Not 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 Plooto. 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 56 of the 65 answers that named Plooto and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com31
techrepublic.com22
fitsmallbusiness.com20
factura.ai19
cashflowpick.com18
bill.com17
worldmetrics.org16
highradius.com13
nerdwallet.com13
rillion.com12

181 of the 181 domain citations in answers naming Plooto 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 Plooto'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 Plooto, 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 plooto.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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