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Index › Vendors › Shopify Tax · September 2026 Edition

Shopify · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Shopify Tax

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

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Shopify Tax was named 5 times in Sales tax automation, where Avalara AvaTax led with 40%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business21 of 38

under the label threshold

Mid-market30 of 38

under the label threshold

Enterprise30 of 36

under the label threshold

In sales tax automation · 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 Shopify Tax 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
Sales tax automation	Tax and compliance	0%	30 of 38	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by Avalara AvaTax at 40%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Shopify Tax 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 Shopify Tax 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	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 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.

“Free calculations; ~$75/filing | Shopify sellers | Built-in, no subscription.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Sales tax automation · budget prompt · alternative

“Built into Shopify stores - These trade breadth for low cost and minimal setup” MiniMax M2.5 · Sales tax automation · 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.

“Many platforms like Shopify and BigCommerce have basic tax tools, but they often: - Have incorrect product taxability settings by default” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Sales tax automation · negative prompt · soft negative

“excellent for *calculating* tax at checkout, but they are not end-to-end filing solutions” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Sales tax automation · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

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

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TaxJar9 of 92Not in the top three

Avalara AvaTax7 of 92Not in the top three

TaxCloud6 of 92Not in the top three

Stripe Tax6 of 90Not in the top three

Vertex5 of 91Not in the top three

Numeral3 of 90Not in the top three

Zoho Books2 of 91Not in the top three

Anrok2 of 90Not in the top three

Kintsugi2 of 90Not in the top three

Quaderno2 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 Shopify Tax. 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 9 answers that named Shopify Tax and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

galvix.com4

taxcloud.com4

zamp.com4

avalara.com3

learn.g2.com3

statwharf.com3

taxjar.com3

techrepublic.com3

capterra.com2

dotygroupcpas.com2

Thirty-one of the thirty-one domain citations in answers naming Shopify Tax came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

taxcloud.com/blog/sales-tax-compliance-software4

galvix.com/article/best-sales-tax-software3

learn.g2.com/best-sales-tax-compliance-software3

statwharf.com/best/sales-tax-software3

techrepublic.com/article/best-sales-tax-software3

dotygroupcpas.com/blog/2019/4/26/sales-tax-compliance-software-solutions2

fitsmallbusiness.com/best-sales-tax-software2

galvix.com/article/taxcloud-pricing-explained2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Shopify Tax

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

Shopify 1

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Shopify Tax's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Shopify Tax, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.