Index › Vendors › PNC Bank · September 2026 Edition

PNC · 1 category · Named, not ranked

PNC Bank

20Judge labels

4First choices

3Negative labels

10 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. PNC Bank was named 8 times in Business banking, where Mercury led with 20%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business36 of 64

under the label threshold

Mid-market12 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprise5 of 99

under the label threshold

In business banking · 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 PNC Bank 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
Business banking	Treasury and cash	2%	12 of 78	12%	8	under 10 labels · led by Mercury at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for PNC Bank 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 PNC Bank across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct8 labels3

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labels1

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 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.

“Axos Bank Business Interest Checking or PNC Treasury Enterprise Plan are excellent starting points” Mistral Small · Business banking · direct prompt · first choice

“Analytics & cash flow tools ... Forbes pick for enterprise. | Regional (East/Midwest focus).” Grok 4.1 Fast · Business banking · direct prompt · alternative

“Choose: A regional commercial player like Fifth Third or PNC” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Business banking · 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.

“Elevated complaints per deposit volume, including fees and service issues.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Business banking · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as PNC Bank, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PNC Bank was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Bank of America17 of 201Not in the top three

Chase Business Banking16 of 205Not in the top three

Mercury13 of 201Not in the top three

Wells Fargo11 of 200Not in the top three

Citibank9 of 201Not in the top three

Rho7 of 202Not in the top three

Brex7 of 200Not in the top three

U.S. Bank7 of 200Not in the top three

Axos Bank6 of 200Not in the top three

Capital One6 of 200Not 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 PNC Bank. 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 18 of the 20 answers that named PNC Bank and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com13

nerdwallet.com12

finder.com11

handelsblatt.com9

rho.co9

found.com7

techrepublic.com7

airwallex.com6

brex.com4

money.co.uk4

No domain is on file for PNC Bank, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

forbes.com/financial-services/best-business-checking-accounts10

handelsblatt.com/geschaeftskonto/vergleich9

rho.co/blog/best-online-business-bank-accounts8

finder.com/business-banking7

forbes.com/advisor/banking/best-business-bank-accounts7

found.com/resources/business-banking/best-business-bank-accounts-growing-businesses-employ6

forbes.com/advisor/banking/checking/best-business-checking-accounts5

airwallex.com/en-us/blog/compare-business-bank-accounts4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as PNC Bank

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

PNC 5PNC Treasury Enterprise Plan 1

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