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Index › Vendors › SAP S/4HANA · September 2026 Edition

4 categories · Ranked

SAP S/4HANA

181Judge labels

34First choices

55Negative labels

12 of 12Models named it

4Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

48% in ERP systems for enterprise buyers

Rank 14 of 70 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger

0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 33% of its 27 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business or mid-market.

Small business54 of 54

criticized challenger

Mid-market14 of 70

criticized challenger

Enterprise1 of 39

endorsed leader

In erp systems · 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 SAP S/4HANA 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
ERP systems	Accounting and close	0%	14 of 70	33%	27	criticized challenger
Accounting software	Accounting and close	0%	53 of 56	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 40%
Financial reporting and dashboards	Planning and analysis	0%	93 of 133	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 27%
Fixed asset accounting	Accounting and close	0%	81 of 94	0%	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 SAP S/4HANA 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 SAP S/4HANA across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	2	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	2	1	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	4	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	1	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	2	0	3
Mistral Small	0	0	2	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	2	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	2	3
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	2	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	2	0	2

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

Direct31 labels10

Paraphrase26 labels14

Comparative40 labels12not counted in share

Budget-constrained33 labels10

Scale-constrained15 labelsNone

Negative36 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative181 labels in all, every segment counted; 34 of the 49 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.

“| 1 | SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud | Mid‑market & large enterprises needing standardized, best‑practice processes” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ERP systems · comparative prompt · first choice

“better if you are a more standardized, higher-complexity mid-market company ready for a larger implementation” Perplexity Sonar · ERP systems · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Upper-midmarket B2B product-centric (manufacturing) ... Gartner Leader” Grok 4.1 Fast · ERP systems · direct prompt · alternative

“best for larger mid-market firms that need enterprise-grade scale” Perplexity Sonar · ERP systems · direct 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.

“massive enterprise-tier ERPs (like SAP S/4HANA) are likely too rigid, expensive, and complex to implement” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Accounting software · scale prompt · hard negative

“High cost and complexity – Licensing and implementation services are among the most expensive in the ERP market... Mid‑sized companies may find it overkill.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ERP systems · negative prompt · soft negative

“you don't need (or want to pay for) the complexity of tier-1 enterprise systems like full SAP S/4HANA, which is typically overkill below ~1,000 employees” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ERP systems · scale prompt · soft negative

“agile enough to avoid the multi-million dollar, multi-year implementation cycles of Tier-1 enterprise systems (like SAP S/4HANA or Oracle Fusion)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ERP systems · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SAP S/4HANA, over the 180 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SAP S/4HANA was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Oracle NetSuite114 of 18020Not in the top three

Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP98 of 1807Not in the top three

Acumatica65 of 18012Not in the top three

Sage Intacct64 of 1807Not in the top three

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance47 of 1804Not in the top three

Microsoft Dynamics 36538 of 1803Not in the top three

Workday38 of 1801Not in the top three

Workday Financial Management38 of 1801Not in the top three

Odoo36 of 1807Not in the top three

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central33 of 1808Not 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 SAP S/4HANA. 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 141 of the 180 answers that named SAP S/4HANA and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

erpresearch.com82

netsuite.com36

clefincode.com35

forbes.com35

worldmetrics.org35

houseblend.io32

erp-pilot.com31

softwareconnect.com29

gitnux.org28

thecfoclub.com27

370 of the 370 domain citations in answers naming SAP S/4HANA came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

clefincode.com/blog/global-digital-vibes/en/comparative-analysis-of-leading-erp-systems-2035

erpresearch.com/en-us/best-erp30

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-erp-systems25

spendesk.com/blog/top-erp-systems25

erpresearch.com/best-erp-software23

zapier.com/blog/best-erp-software23

erp-pilot.com/erp/best-erp-software20

learn.g2.com/best-erp-software20

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as SAP S/4HANA

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SAP S/4HANA; a claim can dispute any of them.

SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud 4SAP S/4HANA Cloud 3SAP S/4HANA Cloud (Public Edition) 2SAP Business ByDesign / SAP S/4HANA Cloud 1SAP S/4HANA (mid-market editions) 1SAP S/4HANA / SAP Cloud ERP 1SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud 1

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