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Index › Vendors › Sage Copilot · September 2026 Edition

Sage · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Sage Copilot

9Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

7 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

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Sage Copilot was named 7 times in AI accounting assistants, where Sage Intacct led with 25%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business53 of 57

under the label threshold

Mid-market27 of 79

under the label threshold

Enterprise64 of 76

under the label threshold

In ai accounting assistants · 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 Sage Copilot 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
AI accounting assistants	Accounting and close	0%	27 of 79	29%	7	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 25%

Movement

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

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

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

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.

“If your company uses Sage Intacct, Sage Copilot would be a close second.” Mistral Small · AI accounting assistants · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“ideal for businesses already using Microsoft or Sage ecosystems” MiniMax M2.5 · AI accounting assistants · comparative prompt · alternative

“Sage Copilot are bundled at no extra cost” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI accounting assistants · paraphrase 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.

“temporarily suspended in January 2025 after a serious privacy breach ... A caution flag for any accounting AI with cross-tenant data risks.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI accounting assistants · negative prompt · soft negative

“Paused in 2025 after leaking other customers' data” Grok 4.1 Fast · AI accounting assistants · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sage Copilot, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sage Copilot was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

QuickBooks Online6 of 92Not in the top three

Vic.ai6 of 91Not in the top three

ChatGPT5 of 90Not in the top three

FloQast5 of 90Not in the top three

Xero5 of 90Not in the top three

Claude4 of 90Not in the top three

Ramp3 of 91Not in the top three

Botkeeper3 of 90Not in the top three

DeepSeek3 of 90Not in the top three

Karbon3 of 90Not 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 Sage Copilot. 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 9 of the 9 answers that named Sage Copilot and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com4

linkedin.com4

numeric.io4

bestaiaccounting.com3

dext.com3

intuit.com3

lionscripts.com3

reddit.com3

unite.ai3

aimultiple.com2

Thirty-two of the thirty-two domain citations in answers naming Sage Copilot came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/09/17/ai-in-accounting-how-to-work-smart-while-4

intuit.com/blog/innovative-thinking/best-ai-accounting-software-tools3

lionscripts.com/blog/how-to-vet-ai-accounting-software3

numeric.io/blog/ai-accounting-software3

aimultiple.com/accounting-ai-agent2

articsledge.com/post/ai-accounting-tools2

becker.com/blog/cpe/risks-of-ai-in-accounting-what-every-accounting-professional-needs-to-2

dext.com/en/blog/single/see-the-risks-of-using-the-wrong-kind-of-ai-in-accounting-and-how-2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Sage Copilot

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

Sage Copilot / Microsoft Copilot for Finance 1

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