Every category where a model named Sage 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
Invoicing software	Receivables and billing	0%	25 of 86	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Wave at 19%
ERP systems	Accounting and close	0%	52 of 70	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by Oracle NetSuite at 38%
Accounting software	Accounting and close	0%	39 of 56	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 40%
Global e-invoicing compliance	Tax and compliance	0%	86 of 108	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Avalara at 28%
Fixed asset accounting	Accounting and close	0%	88 of 94	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sage Fixed Assets at 29%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sage 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 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	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	2	3
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative7 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative16 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative35 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.

“Such as Pennylane and Sage, which are registered to handle French e-invoicing reforms” Mistral Small · Global e-invoicing compl · comparative prompt · alternative

“Sage: Best scalable invoicing system with full-service accounting tools” Llama 4 Maverick · Invoicing software · scale 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.

“Other legacy systems from Sage, IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft may also fall into this category if they are no longer supported” Mistral Small · ERP systems · negative prompt · soft negative

“Sage E-Invoicing / Sage-related e-invoice workflows because of the current onboarding issue and recent service incidents” GPT-5.4 mini · Global e-invoicing compl · negative prompt · soft negative

“Traditional tools (older versions of Sage or older Oracle setups) are desktop-bound and hard to use on the go.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Fixed asset accounting · comparative prompt · soft negative

“The Danger: Fragmentation... retains the clunky logic of the desktop version” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ERP systems · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sage, over the 34 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sage was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Xero19 of 345Not in the top three

FreshBooks12 of 342Not in the top three

QuickBooks Online12 of 342Not in the top three

Oracle NetSuite12 of 340Not in the top three

Wave10 of 342Not in the top three

QuickBooks10 of 340Not in the top three

Zoho Books9 of 340Not in the top three

Acumatica7 of 341Not in the top three

SAP6 of 341Not in the top three

Microsoft Dynamics 3655 of 341Not 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. 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 28 of the 34 answers that named Sage and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com10

forbes.com9

worldmetrics.org9

g2.com8

nerdwallet.com7

pcmag.com7

capterra.com6

techrepublic.com6

erpresearch.com5

learn.g2.com5

Seventy-two of the seventy-two domain citations in answers naming Sage came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

certumsolutions.com/library/best-accounting-software-for-small-business-guide4

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-invoicing-software4

geekflare.com/software/best-invoicing-software4

pcmag.com/picks/the-best-small-business-accounting-software4

techrepublic.com/article/best-invoicing-software4

avalara.com/us/en/index.html3

capterra.com/accounting-software3

lewis.cpa/blog/best-accounting-software-for-small-business3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Sage

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

Sage (Intacct / desktop) 1Sage Cloud 1Stax/Sage 1

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