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ERP systems

Asked as “ERP system”, and as “enterprise resource planning software for finance”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 47 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
38%
Contested · Odoo 19%
38Oracle NetSuite19Odoo15Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central28others

38% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Oracle NetSuite38%4%49endorsed leader
02Odoo19%10%30accepted challenger
03Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central15%5%38accepted challenger
04Sage Intacct11%3%34accepted challenger
05ERPNext11%6%16accepted challenger
06Acumatica2%9%45accepted challenger
07Zoho One2%0%12accepted challenger
08Microsoft Dynamics 3652%0%16accepted challenger
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13SAP S/4HANA0%37%35criticized challenger
14Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP0%31%16criticized challenger
12Epicor Kinetic0%28%18criticized challenger
11SAP Business One0%17%12accepted challenger
09Infor CloudSuite0%11%19accepted challenger
10Workday Financial Management0%0%12accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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01Oracle NetSuite38%
02Odoo19%
03Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central15%
04Sage Intacct11%
05ERPNext11%
06Acumatica2%
07Zoho One2%
08Microsoft Dynamics 3652%
09Infor CloudSuite0%
10Workday Financial Management0%
11SAP Business One0%
12Epicor Kinetic0%
13SAP S/4HANA0%
14Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP0%

What they warned about

Four of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2 and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
SAP S/4HANA
37%
13 of 35 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Tops "worst ERP" lists on Reddit and complaint volumes... Avoid if you're SMB/mid-market or risk-averse.” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
Epicor Kinetic
28%
5 of 18 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Older versions of Syteline and Epicor - these are also outdated ERP systems that may no longer be supported.” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
SAP ECC
80%
4 of 5 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Macola, SAP R3/ECC, and Point.Man - these are outdated ERP systems that may no longer be supported by their publishers.” Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt
Oracle
67%
4 of 6 labels negative · 4 of 12 models
“Systems that work well for large enterprises (like SAP or Oracle) may be overly complex for smaller companies” MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt

What they cite

Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

59 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 774 links across 260 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

45 answers · 84 citations · 11 models
20 answers · 27 citations · 9 models
19 answers · 19 citations · 9 models
16 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
15 answers · 15 citations · 9 models
14 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
vendor site · NetSuite14 answers · 15 citations · 9 models
14 answers · 15 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Consolidate.io13 answers · 14 citations · 9 models
13 answers · 14 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Spendesk13 answers · 13 citations · 9 models
12 answers · 30 citations · 9 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best erp system”, “erp system”, “erp systems”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 days
Oracle parent site
Oracle NetSuite 38%
38%542450,00066,611
Odoo odoo.com19%12249,5003,053406,262$64495
Microsoft Dynamics microsoft.com
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 15%, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance 0%
15%1402,90050145,358,109 company$12,455103
Sage sage.com
Sage Intacct 11%
11%500246,00090,5991,737,127 company$114,67178
ERPNext erpnext.com11%425,4001281,862
Acumatica acumatica.com2%14212,100242130,487$2,934120
Zoho parent site
Zoho One 2%
2%2018,100178
Microsoft Dynamics 3652%12,100604
Infor CloudSuite infor.com0%541,60068313,194$15,42848
Workday parent site
Workday Financial Management 0%
0%1101,220,00023,848

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 14 sites; 2 of them are among the sites the models cited here (forbes.com, reddit.com). The first result for “best erp system” is reddit.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best ERP system for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which enterprise resource planning software for finance would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top ERP systems and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best ERP system for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a ERP system. What should we look at?”Negative“Which ERP systems should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choiceno first choiceno first choiceagainst: Oracle FLEXCUBE, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
GPT-5.4 miniOracle NetSuite
Two alternativesEpicor Kinetic, Microsoft Dynamics 365
against: SAP Business ByDesign, SAP S/4HANA, Sage Intacct
Sage IntacctChanged
Four alternativesMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA, Sage X3
no first choiceERPNext, Odoo
Two alternativesMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Zoho One
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashOracle NetSuite
Four alternativesAcumatica, Epicor Kinetic, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage Intacct
Sage IntacctChanged
Three alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite
against: Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA
no first choiceERPNext, Zoho One
Two alternativesDolibarr, Odoo
against: Acumatica
Acumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle NetSuite
Three alternativesIFS Cloud, Infor CloudSuite, Sage Intacct
against: ERPNext, Epicor Kinetic, Infor CloudSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, Odoo, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Oracle NetSuite, QuickBooks, SAP S/4HANA
Perplexity SonarOracle NetSuite
Four alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP S/4HANA, Sage Intacct
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business CentralChanged
Four alternativesAcumatica, Oracle NetSuite, SAP S/4HANA, Sage Intacct
no first choiceOdoo
Two alternativesERPNext, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
against: SAP Business One
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.20Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Five alternativesAcumatica, Epicor Kinetic, Oracle NetSuite, SAP S/4HANA, Sage Intacct
Oracle NetSuiteChanged
One alternativeSage Intacct
no first choiceERPNext, Odoo
One alternativeZoho One
against: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite
no first choiceagainst: Baan IV, Dynamics NAV/GP, Epicor Kinetic, Infor CloudSuite, Lawson M3 10.1, Oracle Legacy, SAP S/4HANA, SYSPRO
Mistral SmallOracle NetSuite
Three alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP Business One
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuiteChanged
Two alternativesAcumatica, Sage Intacct
no first choiceOdoo
Four alternativesERPNext, Katana, Sage 50cloud, Zoho One
no first choiceagainst: Epicor Kinetic, IBM, Macola, Microsoft, Oracle, Point.Man, SAP ECC, Sage, Syteline
DeepSeek V4 FlashMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
Three alternativesAcumatica, Oracle NetSuite, SAP Business One
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business CentralHeld
Two alternativesOracle NetSuite, Sage Intacct
no first choiceOdoo
Three alternativesERPNext, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Zoho One
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite
Four alternativesAcumatica, Epicor Kinetic, SAP Business One, Sage Intacct
against: SAP S/4HANA
against: Epicor Kinetic, Microsoft AX, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Odoo, Oracle, Oracle PeopleSoft, SAP ECC, SAP S/4HANA
Llama 4 MaverickOracle NetSuite
Three alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP Business One
Oracle NetSuiteHeld
Four alternativesAcumatica, Flow ERP, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage Intacct
no first choiceOdoo
Four alternativesERPNext, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage Intacct, Zoho One
no first choiceagainst: Epicor Kinetic, MACH, Macola, Point.Man, SAP ECC, Syteline
Qwen 3.7 FlashOracle NetSuite
Four alternativesAcumatica, Infor CloudSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage Intacct
Sage IntacctChanged
Three alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite
against: SAP S/4HANA
no first choiceOdoo
Three alternativesERPNext, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Zoho One
against: Acumatica
Oracle NetSuite
Four alternativesAcumatica, IFS Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Sage X3
against: QuickBooks, SAP S/4HANA, TallyPrime
against: Acumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Odoo, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle PeopleSoft, QuickBooks, SAP S/4HANA, Sage, Sage MAS
Kimi K2Oracle NetSuite
Two alternativesMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP Business One
Oracle NetSuite, Sage IntacctChanged
Two alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
against: SAP Business One
SAP S/4HANA
Three alternativesMicrosoft Dynamics 365, Oracle, Oracle NetSuite
ERPNext, Odoo
Three alternativesSage 50cloud, Sage Intacct, Zoho One
no first choiceagainst: Oracle, SAP S/4HANAagainst: SAP ECC
GLM 4.7 FlashXOracle NetSuite
Four alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, SAP S/4HANA, Sage Intacct
Oracle NetSuiteHeld
Three alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, Sage Intacct
against: SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA
Four alternativesMicrosoft Dynamics 365, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Oracle NetSuite, Workday Financial Management
ERPNext
Two alternativesOdoo, Zoho One
against: Acumatica, Sage 50cloud
no first choiceagainst: Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA
MiniMax M2.5Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Oracle NetSuite
Three alternativesSAP Business One, Sage Intacct, Workday Financial Management
Oracle NetSuite, Sage IntacctChanged
Two alternativesAcumatica, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
no first choiceOdoo
Four alternativesERPNext, Katana, QuickBooks, Zoho One
no first choiceagainst: Macola, Oracle, Point.Man, SAP S/4HANA, Syteline
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:53no06 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:36no04 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:35yes1021 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:22yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 18:48yes3516 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:01yes53 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:55yes1821 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:53yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:29no024 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:07yes1024 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:02yes974 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:15yes514 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:18no04 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:22yes55 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:18yes1353 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:52yes208 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 19:26yes159 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:03yes55 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:49yes1215 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:30yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:36no031 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:39yes1427 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:01yes15175 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:33yes1041 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:27yes98 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:35yes78 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 20:09yes2230 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:16yes1810 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 20:25yes2516 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:39yes58 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:56yes1721 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:59yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:30yes524 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:48yes525 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:27yes1353 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:06yes515 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:46no05 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:17no04 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:34yes1917 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:18yes205 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 20:06yes1110 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:17yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:47yes910 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:43yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 17:57no029 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:54yes1529 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:54yes830 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:22yes517 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:25no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:56no09 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:21yes1424 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:46yes1910 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 17:58yes1812 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:53no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:33yes1521 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:26yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:01no030 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:28yes922 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:00yes20187 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:35yes519 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:55yes2713 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:23yes45 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:17yes24207 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:03yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 18:37yes3317 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:35yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:39yes2938 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:54yes59 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:38no033 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:43yes2939 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:50yes1961 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:53yes1034 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Acumatica Cloud ERP read as Acumatica
Epicor read as Epicor Kinetic
Infor read as Infor CloudSuite
Infor (CloudSuite) read as Infor CloudSuite
Infor (e.g., CloudSuite, LN) read as Infor CloudSuite
Intuit/QuickBooks read as QuickBooks
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance read as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance
NetSuite read as Oracle NetSuite
Netsuite read as Oracle NetSuite
Oracle Cloud ERP read as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle EBS read as Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle ERP Cloud read as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle Fusion read as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle Fusion Cloud read as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
SAP read as SAP S/4HANA
SAP (R3/ECC) read as SAP S/4HANA
SAP (S/4HANA) read as SAP S/4HANA
SAP Cloud ERP read as SAP S/4HANA
Tally read as TallyPrime
Workday read as Workday Financial Management
Unresolved, counted raw
Baan IV
Bridger Systems
Dynamics NAV/GP
Kronos
Lawson M3 10.1
Microsoft AX
OpenBravo
Oracle Legacy (E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards)
Oracle offerings
Sage MAS
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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