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Index Vendors › Spendesk · September 2026 Edition
6 categories · Ranked

Spendesk

93Judge labels
12First choices
8Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
6Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
11% in Expense management for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 46 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 16 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In expense management · 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 Spendesk 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Expense managementSpend and procurement11%3 of 460%16accepted challenger
Spend management platformsSpend and procurement9%4 of 398%25accepted challenger
Business bill payTreasury and cash0%50 of 690%1under 10 labels · led by BILL at 35%
Corporate cardsSpend and procurement0%34 of 630%1under 10 labels · led by Ramp at 69%
Corporate performance managementPlanning and analysis0%70 of 950%1under 10 labels · led by Planful at 29%
Procure-to-paySpend and procurement0%58 of 850%1under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Spendesk 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 Spendesk across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501012
GPT-5.4 mini00101
Gemini 3.5 Flash01203
Perplexity Sonar03003
Grok 4.1 Fast04217
Mistral Small31105
DeepSeek V4 Flash01102
Llama 4 Maverick21104
Qwen 3.7 Flash15006
Kimi K213105
GLM 4.7 FlashX01203
MiniMax M2.520204

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
Direct20 labels1
Paraphrase29 labels10
Comparative16 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labels1
Scale-constrained14 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative93 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 12 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.

“Spendesk - an all-in-one spend management platform ... best for mid-market businesses needing proactive budget controls and native ERP integrations.” Llama 4 Maverick · Spend management platfor · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Spendesk - a comprehensive spend management platform offering a clear view of an organization's expenditures.” Llama 4 Maverick · Expense management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“or Spendesk if you prefer a more comprehensive spend management platform that can grow with your company” MiniMax M2.5 · Expense management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“A comprehensive spend management platform ... making it a strong choice for mid-market businesses” Mistral Small · Expense management · direct prompt · first choice

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.

“Users noted that approval across multiple entities is very elementary, with rigid workflows and integration difficulties with some tools” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Spend management platfor · negative prompt · soft negative
“Occasional slow approvals, card acceptance issues, or PO rework.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Spend management platfor · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Spendesk, over the 93 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spendesk was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Ramp69 of 9327Compare →
Brex47 of 934Not in the top three
BILL Spend & Expense44 of 938Not in the top three
Expensify38 of 933Not in the top three
Airbase37 of 937Not in the top three
Emburse26 of 930Not in the top three
Coupa23 of 939Not in the top three
SAP Concur23 of 932Not in the top three
Payhawk21 of 930Not in the top three
Navan19 of 930Not 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 Spendesk. 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 85 of the 93 answers that named Spendesk and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com60
emburse.com53
learn.g2.com47
spendesk.comYour site44
zylo.com36
ramp.com26
fraxion.biz22
airwallex.com21
ofx.com19
guideflow.com18

302 of the 346 domain citations in answers naming Spendesk came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Spendesk

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Spendesk; a claim can dispute any of them.
Airbase/Spendesk 1
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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 Spendesk'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 Spendesk, 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 spendesk.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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