Index › Products › PYUSD · October 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

PYUSD

12Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

7 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. PYUSD was named 7 times in Stablecoin platforms, where BVNK led with 23%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business23 of 119

under the label threshold

Mid-market26 of 141

under the label threshold

Enterprise53 of 111

under the label threshold

In stablecoin platforms · 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 PYUSD 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	Since September 2026
Stablecoin platforms	Treasury and cash	0%	26 of 141	14%	7	under 10 labels · led by BVNK at 23%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for PYUSD yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated PYUSD across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative9 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

“Safer Alternatives ... consider well-regulated, fully fiat-backed stablecoins with audited reserves like USDC (Circle), PYUSD (PayPal)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Stablecoin platforms · negative prompt · alternative

“Highly regulated, institution-backed alternatives like PayPal's PYUSD ... are also generally considered lower-risk options” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Stablecoin platforms · negative prompt · alternative

“PYUSD (PayPal) is safer due to Paxos/KPMG monthly audits but ecosystem-locked.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Stablecoin platforms · negative 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.

“Less transparent or newly launched stablecoins (e.g., TUSD, USD1, PYUSD)” Mistral Small · Stablecoin platforms · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as PYUSD, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PYUSD was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

USDC12 of 128Not among the top eight

TerraUSD6 of 120Not among the top eight

Tether6 of 120Not among the top eight

USDe4 of 120Not among the top eight

USDT3 of 122Not among the top eight

DAI3 of 121Not among the top eight

BUSD3 of 120Not among the top eight

EURC3 of 120Not among the top eight

TUSD3 of 120Not among the top eight

IRON Finance2 of 120Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 PYUSD. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 12 of the 12 answers that named PYUSD and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

stripe.com7

eco.com5

stablecoininsider.org5

bvnk.com4

citizensbank.com4

coinbureau.com4

spark.money4

alchemy.com3

bpi.com3

frontiersin.org3

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

Pages cited

citizensbank.com/corporate-finance/insights/stablecoins-for-mid-sized-businesses.aspx4

coinbureau.com/education/what-is-tether-usdt4

alchemy.com/overviews/enterprise-stablecoin-guide3

frontiersin.org/journals/blockchain/articles/10.3389/fbloc.2026.1797659/full3

kpmg.com/kpmg-us/content/dam/kpmg/pdf/2025/stablecoins-kpmg.pdf3

spark.money/tools/which-stablecoin-should-i-use3

stripe.com/resources/more/stablecoin-yield3

binance.com/en/square/post/330932346904422

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where PYUSD stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 8,100 a month (“pyusd”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 110 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 26 of 141 in stablecoin platforms

Segment leader

23%

BVNK

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 12 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as PYUSD

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

PYUSD (PayPal) 1Paxos / PYUSD 1

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for PYUSD by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where PYUSD is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name PYUSD, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.