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Index Vendors › Spreadsheets · September 2026 Edition
9 categories · Ranked

Spreadsheets

44Judge labels
0First choices
42Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
9Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Fixed asset accounting for mid-market buyers
Rank 94 of 94 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 100% of its 4 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In fixed asset accounting · 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 Spreadsheets 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
Fixed asset accountingAccounting and close0%94 of 94100%4under 10 labels · led by Sage Fixed Assets at 29%
Lease accountingAccounting and close0%59 of 60100%4under 10 labels · led by FinQuery at 36%
Cap table managementEquity and corporate0%41 of 41100%3under 10 labels · led by Carta at 44%
Cash flow forecastingTreasury and cash0%84 of 86100%2under 10 labels · led by Agicap at 18%
Corporate tax provisionTax and compliance0%97 of 98100%2under 10 labels · led by Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Tax Provision at 26%
Internal controls and SOXTax and compliance0%71 of 71100%2under 10 labels · led by AuditBoard at 18%
Account reconciliationAccounting and close0%57 of 720%1under 10 labels · led by FloQast at 33%
Entity managementEquity and corporate0%84 of 87100%1under 10 labels · led by Athennian at 18%
Revenue recognitionAccounting and close0%73 of 77100%1under 10 labels · led by Maxio at 15%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Spreadsheets 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 Spreadsheets across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500022
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00011
Grok 4.1 Fast00066
Mistral Small00033
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00011
Qwen 3.7 Flash00123
Kimi K200022
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500011

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
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained4 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative39 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative44 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Spreadsheets / Excel: sources warn they create data integrity, version-control, security, and compliance risks, and they are poor for large or complex lease portfolios.” Perplexity Sonar · Lease accounting · negative prompt · hard negative
“Spreadsheets lack built-in audit controls, version history, and data validation, making them prone to errors, missed payments, and compliance issues.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Lease accounting · negative prompt · hard negative
“Most experts strongly advise against using spreadsheets for lease accounting, especially for organizations with more than 10 leases.” Mistral Small · Lease accounting · negative prompt · hard negative
“spreadsheets are a common tool to avoid, as they can contain errors and are prone to problems such as miscalculations” Llama 4 Maverick · Fixed asset accounting · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Spreadsheets, over the 44 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spreadsheets was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
QuickBooks Online5 of 441Not in the top three
Maxio5 of 440Not in the top three
NetSuite Advanced Revenue Management5 of 440Not in the top three
Carta4 of 441Not in the top three
Pulley4 of 441Not in the top three
Chargebee RevRec4 of 440Not in the top three
Oracle4 of 440Not in the top three
Sovos Tax Provision4 of 440Not in the top three
Zuora Revenue4 of 440Not in the top three
Finlens3 of 441Not 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 Spreadsheets. 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 42 of the 44 answers that named Spreadsheets and are not a share of its labels.

Names read as Spreadsheets

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Spreadsheets; a claim can dispute any of them.
Spreadsheets (e.g., Excel) 4Spreadsheets (Excel, Google Sheets) 2Spreadsheets (Excel/Google Sheets) 2spreadsheets 2Excel and Spreadsheets 1Spreadsheets (Excel / Google Sheets) 1Spreadsheets (Excel) 1Spreadsheets (especially Excel) 1Spreadsheets and Excel 1spreadsheets/Excel 1spreadsheets/Google Sheets 1
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