Every category where a model named TaxCloud 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	29%	2 of 38	3%	31	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Direct10 labels2

Paraphrase5 labelsNone

Comparative19 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained23 labels22

Scale-constrained6 labels1

Negative15 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative78 labels in all, every segment counted; 25 of the 27 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.

“TaxCloud offers a cost-effective solution with automated sales tax filing and real-time calculations, making it ideal for businesses focused on affordability.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Sales tax automation · budget prompt · first choice

“For a limited budget, TaxCloud and Numeral are often cited as the most affordable and user-friendly options” Mistral Small · Sales tax automation · budget prompt · first choice

“If the budget is tight, TaxCloud is usually the best starting point for sales tax compliance software” GPT-5.4 mini · Sales tax automation · budget prompt · first choice

“TaxCloud stands out as one of the most affordable dedicated sales tax compliance software options” Grok 4.1 Fast · Sales tax automation · budget 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.

“Critical liability limitation: Their terms cap liability at $1,000 or 30 days of fees—whichever is less” Kimi K2 · Sales tax automation · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as TaxCloud, over the 78 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TaxCloud was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TaxJar70 of 7810Not in the top three

Avalara AvaTax57 of 789Compare →

Vertex34 of 782Not in the top three

Stripe Tax30 of 780Not in the top three

Anrok28 of 780Not in the top three

Quaderno26 of 780Not in the top three

Numeral23 of 780Not in the top three

Sovos19 of 780Not in the top three

Zamp18 of 781Not in the top three

Kintsugi18 of 780Not 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 TaxCloud. 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 67 of the 78 answers that named TaxCloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

taxcloud.comYour site60

zamp.com48

learn.g2.com44

galvix.com37

quaderno.io36

taxjar.com36

techrepublic.com34

guideflow.com27

avalara.com26

taxwire.com24

312 of the 372 domain citations in answers naming TaxCloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

taxcloud.com/blog/sales-tax-compliance-software47

learn.g2.com/best-sales-tax-compliance-software44

techrepublic.com/article/best-sales-tax-software34

quaderno.io/blog/us-sales-tax/top-sales-tax-software33

galvix.com/article/best-sales-tax-software32

taxjar.com/blog/2026-sales-tax-software-comparison27

zamp.com/blog/sales-tax-compliance-software24

guideflow.com/blog/sales-tax-automation-software19

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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

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