Every category where a model named Stripe 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%	10 of 38	13%	23	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Stripe 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 Stripe 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	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	2	4
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	0	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	1	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase8 labels1

Comparative16 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative48 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“Near-zero setup, integrated directly into Stripe... cheapest option with minimal setup required” MiniMax M2.5 · Sales tax automation · budget prompt · alternative

“If you process all payments through Stripe, using Stripe Tax reduces setup friction.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Sales tax automation · comparative prompt · alternative

“Already on payments like Stripe → Stripe Tax for zero-setup integration.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Sales tax automation · comparative prompt · alternative

“Stripe Tax | ~$90/mo *or* 0.5%/transaction | Stripe-native businesses” DeepSeek V4 Flash · 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.

“they can sometimes lack the deep enterprise-grade notice-resolution or exemption certificate management needed at the 500-employee scale” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Sales tax automation · scale prompt · soft negative

“Stripe Tax only monitors sales thresholds for transactions processed *on Stripe*” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Sales tax automation · negative prompt · soft negative

“Pure self-serve like Stripe Tax lacks robust support.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Sales tax automation · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Stripe Tax, over the 48 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Stripe Tax was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TaxJar41 of 488Not in the top three

Avalara AvaTax38 of 4810Not in the top three

TaxCloud30 of 489Not in the top three

Vertex26 of 481Not in the top three

Anrok23 of 484Not in the top three

Quaderno18 of 482Not in the top three

Sovos15 of 480Not in the top three

Zamp14 of 481Not in the top three

Numeral13 of 481Not in the top three

Zoho Books8 of 481Not 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 Stripe 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 37 of the 48 answers that named Stripe Tax and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

taxcloud.com27

learn.g2.com23

galvix.com22

techrepublic.com19

taxjar.com18

quaderno.io17

zamp.com16

avalara.com15

worldmetrics.org12

g2.com9

178 of the 178 domain citations in answers naming Stripe Tax came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

learn.g2.com/best-sales-tax-compliance-software23

taxcloud.com/blog/sales-tax-compliance-software21

galvix.com/article/best-sales-tax-software19

techrepublic.com/article/best-sales-tax-software19

quaderno.io/blog/us-sales-tax/top-sales-tax-software15

taxjar.com/blog/2026-sales-tax-software-comparison14

zamp.com/blog/sales-tax-compliance-software9

fitsmallbusiness.com/best-sales-tax-software8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Stripe Tax

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

Stripe Tax (Basic) 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 Stripe 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 Stripe 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 stripe.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.