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Pulse

43Judge labels
4First choices
4Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
6% in Cash flow forecasting for small business buyers
Rank 16 of 86 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 9 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In cash flow forecasting · 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 Pulse 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
Cash flow forecastingTreasury and cash2%16 of 8611%9under 10 labels · led by Agicap at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Pulse 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 Pulse across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast01012
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash10001
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500101

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 labels1
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative7 labelsNone
Budget-constrained16 labels2
Scale-constrained3 labels1
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative43 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.

“If you are on a tight budget, start with Pulse (if you use QBO/Xero)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Cash flow forecasting · budget prompt · first choice
“one of the most budget-friendly choices... However, it doesn't offer AI-driven predictions and requires you to manually input every expected transaction.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Cash flow forecasting · budget prompt · alternative
“Pulse (~$29/mo, 30-day free trial): Integrates only with QBO. Great for simple calendars” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cash flow forecasting · budget prompt · alternative
“Great if you just need to see your cash position without other features” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cash flow forecasting · 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.

“Easiest for beginners; lightweight, low-maintenance; less feature-rich than leaders” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cash flow forecasting · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Pulse, over the 43 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pulse was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Float36 of 4314Not in the top three
Cash Flow Frog26 of 434Not in the top three
Fathom19 of 432Not in the top three
Dryrun17 of 430Not in the top three
QuickBooks Cash Flow Planner11 of 435Not in the top three
Agicap10 of 431Not in the top three
G-CashFlow8 of 432Not in the top three
Fluidly8 of 431Not in the top three
Trezy7 of 434Not in the top three
Kyriba7 of 432Not 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 Pulse. 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 36 of the 43 answers that named Pulse and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com25
g-accon.com20
cubesoftware.com19
tesorio.com18
fathomhq.com17
cashflowfrog.com14
wise.com14
drivetrain.ai13
articsledge.com12
worldmetrics.org12

164 of the 164 domain citations in answers naming Pulse 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 Pulse'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 Pulse, 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 pulse.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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