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2 categories · Named, not ranked

ZipBooks

10Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. ZipBooks was named 6 times in Invoicing software and 1 other category, where Wave led with 19%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business40 of 55

under the label threshold

Mid-market24 of 86

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In invoicing software · 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 ZipBooks 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
Invoicing software	Receivables and billing	0%	24 of 86	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Wave at 19%
Accounting software	Accounting and close	0%	17 of 56	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 40%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ZipBooks 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 ZipBooks across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained9 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 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.

“ZipBooks is noted as a best budget tool with time tracking that is affordable and beginner-friendly” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Invoicing software · budget prompt · alternative

“Free (paid from ~$15/mo) | Time tracking, basic CRM, pretty dashboards” Grok 4.1 Fast · Invoicing software · budget prompt · alternative

“ZipBooks is highly intuitive and lets you send unlimited invoices” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Accounting software · budget prompt · alternative

“ZipBooks — Best Budget Option with Time Tracking” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Invoicing software · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ZipBooks, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ZipBooks was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wave10 of 107Not in the top three

Zoho Invoice5 of 103Not in the top three

FreshBooks5 of 100Not in the top three

Xero4 of 100Not in the top three

Zoho Books3 of 101Not in the top three

Invoice Ninja3 of 100Not in the top three

QuickBooks Online3 of 100Not in the top three

Square Invoices3 of 100Not in the top three

Manager.io2 of 100Not in the top three

Paymo2 of 100Not 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 ZipBooks. 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 7 of the 10 answers that named ZipBooks and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com5

bookipi.com4

tech.co4

getholdings.com3

nerdwallet.com3

toolradar.com3

zapier.com3

capterra.com2

cnbc.com2

guideflow.com2

Thirty-one of the thirty-one domain citations in answers naming ZipBooks came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bookipi.com/bookkeeping/best-invoicing-software4

tech.co/accounting-software/best-invoice-software-small-business4

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-free-invoice-software3

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-invoicing-software3

getholdings.com/resources/guides/best-invoicing-app-small-business3

toolradar.com/guides/best-invoicing-software3

zapier.com/blog/best-free-invoice-software3

cnbc.com/select/best-invoicing-software-for-small-businesses2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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