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QuickBooks · 1 category · Named, not ranked

QuickBooks Solopreneur

5Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

4 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. QuickBooks Solopreneur was named 3 times 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 business23 of 37

under the label threshold

Mid-market52 of 56

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Solopreneur 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%	52 of 56	67%	3	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 Solopreneur 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 Solopreneur across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“Plan to grow quickly: QuickBooks Online (most accountant-compatible)” Kimi K2 · Accounting software · 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.

“QuickBooks Self-Employed — one source bluntly says, “just… don’t,”” Perplexity Sonar · Accounting software · negative prompt · hard negative

“Bookkeepers and CPAs widely recommend avoiding this specific tier.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Accounting software · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as QuickBooks Solopreneur, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and QuickBooks Solopreneur was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wave5 of 52Not in the top three

FreshBooks4 of 50Not in the top three

Xero4 of 50Not in the top three

Oracle NetSuite2 of 50Not in the top three

QuickBooks2 of 50Not in the top three

QuickBooks Desktop2 of 50Not in the top three

QuickBooks Online2 of 50Not in the top three

Zoho Books2 of 50Not in the top three

Excel or Google Sheets1 of 50Not in the top three

Manager.io1 of 50Not 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 Solopreneur. 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 2 of the 5 answers that named QuickBooks Solopreneur and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

accounting-solutionz.com1

accountingdepartment.com1

au.pcmag.com1

bankreconciler.app1

beancount.io1

bestaiaccounting.com1

bookkeeping-services.com1

business-software.com1

certumsolutions.com1

cnbc.com1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming QuickBooks Solopreneur came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

accounting-solutionz.com/post/5-common-accounting-software-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them1

accountingdepartment.com/blog/hidden-risks-of-proprietary-accounting-software-what-you-nee1

au.pcmag.com/accounting-tax-software/11843/the-best-small-business-accounting-software1

bankreconciler.app/blog/best-accounting-software-sole-proprietors1

beancount.io/blog/2026/01/27/best-accounting-software-small-business-complete-guide1

beancount.io/blog/2026/02/09/accounting-software-comparison-small-business-guide1

bestaiaccounting.com/compare/zoho-vs-wave1

bookkeeping-services.com/best-small-business-accounting-software1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as QuickBooks Solopreneur

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

QuickBooks Self-Employed 1QuickBooks Self-Employed (QBSE) 1

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