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Index Vendors › Wise Business · September 2026 Edition
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Wise Business

262Judge labels
55First choices
40Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
73% in Cross-border payments for small business buyers
Rank 1 of 83 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
4 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 54 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In cross-border payments · 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 Wise Business 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
Cross-border payments and FXTreasury and cash35%1 of 8311%54endorsed leader
Business bankingTreasury and cash2%13 of 7829%7under 10 labels · led by Mercury at 20%
Contractor paymentsSpend and procurement0%20 of 8330%23criticized challenger
B2B payment acceptanceReceivables and billing0%18 of 910%14accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Wise Business 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 Wise Business across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.522318
GPT-5.4 mini22004
Gemini 3.5 Flash113611
Perplexity Sonar22116
Grok 4.1 Fast43209
Mistral Small333211
DeepSeek V4 Flash260210
Llama 4 Maverick22307
Qwen 3.7 Flash43119
Kimi K234018
GLM 4.7 FlashX25018
MiniMax M2.514207

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
Direct40 labels17
Paraphrase35 labels7
Comparative78 labels19not counted in share
Budget-constrained38 labels28
Scale-constrained20 labels3
Negative51 labels11not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative262 labels in all, every segment counted; 55 of the 85 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.

“Legitimate providers (like Wise, Western Union, or banks) usually allow this... stick to platforms that meet these criteria: Publicly Audited or Large Tech Backing: e.g., Wise” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Cross-border payments · negative prompt · first choice
“Two platforms stand out as the absolute best budget-friendly cross-border payment solutions for small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs): Wise Business and Airwallex.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Cross-border payments · budget prompt · first choice
“Wise Business is generally considered the best choice for companies with limited budgets due to its transparency, competitive pricing, and no hidden fees.” MiniMax M2.5 · Cross-border payments · budget prompt · first choice
“the sources consistently favor purpose-built contractor platforms or established transfer services like Wise and Deel for international payments” Perplexity Sonar · Contractor payments · negative 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.

“Wise and pure payment tools handle transfers but don't do 1099 filing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Contractor payments · direct prompt · hard negative
“Wise is not a traditional bank but an Electronic Money Institution (EMI)... it may close or restrict business accounts if you keep large reserves” Mistral Small · Business banking · negative prompt · soft negative
“too large for simple consumer-grade tools (like personal Wise or PayPal)... Great for small-to-medium business... Good for lower volumes.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Cross-border payments · scale prompt · soft negative
“It is purely a money-transfer tool. It does not offer automated contract generation, compliance protection, or 1099 tax filing.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Contractor payments · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Wise Business, over the 261 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Wise Business was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Payoneer118 of 2610Not in the top three
Stripe85 of 26112Not in the top three
PayPal61 of 2611Not in the top three
Tipalti58 of 2613Not in the top three
Deel57 of 26119Not in the top three
Adyen44 of 26110Not in the top three
Thunes43 of 2617Not in the top three
Gusto40 of 26111Not in the top three
Revolut Business37 of 2612Not 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 Wise Business. 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 223 of the 261 answers that named Wise Business and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

airwallex.com101
connectpay.com89
wise.comYour site79
guideflow.com65
xtransfer.com59
theindustryleaders.org57
luhhu.com51
worldmetrics.org42
highradius.com41
contractor-of-record.com38

543 of the 622 domain citations in answers naming Wise Business came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Wise Business

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Wise Business; a claim can dispute any of them.
Wise 26Wise (formerly TransferWise) 10Wise (formerly TransferWise) Business 2Wise Business (formerly TransferWise) 2TransferWise 1Wise (Business) 1Wise (TransferWise) 1Wise Platform 1Wise for Business 1
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