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QuickBooks · 1 category · Named, not ranked

QuickBooks Desktop

10Judge labels

0First choices

8Negative labels

6 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

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. QuickBooks Desktop was named 1 time in Accounting software, where Sage Intacct led with 40%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business37 of 37

under the label threshold

Mid-market50 of 56

under the label threshold

Enterprise47 of 53

under the label threshold

In accounting software · 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 QuickBooks Desktop 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
Accounting software	Accounting and close	0%	50 of 56	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 40%

Movement

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

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

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Older versions (such as Pro, Premier, and Mac) are no longer supported and do not receive security patches” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Accounting software · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as QuickBooks Desktop, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and QuickBooks Desktop was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

QuickBooks Online8 of 101Not in the top three

Xero7 of 103Not in the top three

FreshBooks7 of 101Not in the top three

Wave7 of 100Not in the top three

Oracle NetSuite6 of 101Not in the top three

Zoho Books5 of 101Not in the top three

Sage Intacct4 of 101Not in the top three

QuickBooks3 of 100Not in the top three

Sage3 of 100Not in the top three

Sage 503 of 100Not 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 QuickBooks Desktop. 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 7 of the 10 answers that named QuickBooks Desktop and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

beancount.io3

certumsolutions.com3

forbes.com3

g2.com3

gogravity.com3

nerdwallet.com3

pcmag.com3

reddit.com3

accountingdepartment.com2

accountsiq.com2

Twenty-eight of the twenty-eight domain citations in answers naming QuickBooks Desktop came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

certumsolutions.com/library/best-accounting-software-for-small-business-guide3

pcmag.com/picks/the-best-small-business-accounting-software3

accountsiq.com/blog/no-hidden-fees-how-to-avoid-surprise-price-hikes-in-accounting-softwar2

au.pcmag.com/accounting-tax-software/11843/the-best-small-business-accounting-software2

nerdwallet.com/business/software/reviews/quickbooks-online2

reddit.com/r/Bookkeeping/comments/1jff27y/how_is_xero_and_freshbooks_compared_to_quickbook2

saasrat.com/blog/accounting-software-hidden-costs2

techradar.com/best/accounting-software-small-business2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as QuickBooks Desktop

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

Older QuickBooks Desktop Versions 1

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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 quickbooksdesktop.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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