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Fixed asset accounting for small business buyers

Asked as “fixed asset accounting software”, and as “asset depreciation tracking tool”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 52 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
15%
Contested · Xero 15%
15AssetAccountant15Xero13QuickBooks56others

15% 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 small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Xero15%6%36accepted challenger
02AssetAccountant15%0%21accepted challenger
03QuickBooks13%31%32criticized challenger
04AssetTiger12%5%19accepted challenger
05Fixed Asset Pro10%5%19accepted challenger
06EZOfficeInventory6%0%20accepted challenger
07Sage Fixed Assets6%21%28accepted challenger
08Asset Panda2%14%28accepted challenger
Show the one product at 0%, ordered by negative rate
09NetSuite Fixed Assets Management0%40%10criticized 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.
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not small business.
All twenty-one head-to-head pages: the top seven 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%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative30%
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01Xero15%
02AssetAccountant15%
03QuickBooks13%
04AssetTiger12%
05Fixed Asset Pro10%
06EZOfficeInventory6%
07Sage Fixed Assets6%
08Asset Panda2%
09NetSuite Fixed Assets Management0%

What they warned about

One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX 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.
QuickBooks
31%
10 of 32 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid: QuickBooks Online's fixed asset feature for a tight budget — it's locked behind the expensive Advanced tier.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
Bloomberg Tax Fixed Assets
67%
6 of 9 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“Avoid/Be cautious with: NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Bloomberg Tax Fixed Assets, and similar full ERP suites.” Kimi K2, negative prompt
SAP Asset Accounting
86%
6 of 7 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“small businesses should steer clear of over‑engineered, high‑cost “enterprise‑grade” fixed‑asset software” MiniMax M2.5, negative prompt
Sage Fixed Assets
21%
6 of 28 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“avoid legacy enterprise platforms like Sage Fixed Assets” Gemini 3.5 Flash, direct 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

66 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. 909 links across 157 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Capterra51 answers · 79 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Worldmetrics45 answers · 77 citations · 9 models
31 answers · 39 citations · 12 models
29 answers · 35 citations · 9 models
27 answers · 28 citations · 11 models
26 answers · 27 citations · 10 models
25 answers · 41 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Netgain21 answers · 23 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Bassets20 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
19 answers · 23 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Sage18 answers · 26 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Xero16 answers · 22 citations · 11 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 fixed asset accounting software”, “fixed asset accounting software”, “fixed asset tools”. 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 daysBest Google position
NetAsset asset.accountant
AssetAccountant 15%, Asset Infinity 2%, Asset Shark 2%, NetAsset 0%
19%7317031,6292
Xero xero.com15%72990,5004,6101,200,289$500119
QuickBooks quickbooks.ninja13%2881,000,00054,681253
AssetTiger assettiger.com12%172,400507,00610
Fixed Asset Pro10%1102
EZOfficeInventory6%4800
Sage parent site
Sage Fixed Assets 6%
6%119246,00090,599
Asset Panda assetpanda.com2%765,4005535,566166
Hardcat hardcat.com2%1
Bassets bassets.net
Bassets eDepreciation 2%
2%9100268 company16

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 19 sites; 5 of them are among the sites the models cited here (asset.accountant, bassets.net, capterra.com, netgain.tech, sage.com). The first result for “best fixed asset accounting software” is tax.thomsonreuters.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 fixed asset accounting software for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which asset depreciation tracking tool would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top fixed asset tools for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best fixed asset accounting software for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a fixed asset accounting software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which fixed asset tools should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Xero
Two alternativesAssetAccountant, Fixed Asset Pro
Fixed Asset Pro, Sage Fixed AssetsChanged
One alternativeWorthIt Fixed Assets
AssetTiger
Three alternativesAsset Panda, Cheqroom, UpKeep
Fixed Asset Pro
Two alternativesXero, Zoho Books
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniFixed Asset Pro
Two alternativesAsset Panda, Striven
Sage Fixed AssetsChanged
Two alternativesAsset Panda, Fixed Asset Pro
Bloomberg Tax Fixed Assets, Fixed Asset Pro
One alternativeSage Fixed Assets
Fixed Asset Pro
One alternativeAssetAccountant
against: Bloomberg Tax Fixed Assets
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashAssetAccountant
Two alternativesPuzzle, Xero
against: Bloomberg Tax Fixed Assets, QuickBooks, Sage Fixed Assets, Thomson Reuters Fixed Assets CS
AssetAccountantHeld
Three alternativesFixed Asset Pro, Puzzle, Xero
against: QuickBooks
AssetAccountant
Five alternativesBlueTally, QuickBooks, Sortly, UpKeep, Xero
Manager.io
Two alternativesFixed Asset Pro, Xero
against: QuickBooks
AssetAccountant
Four alternativesAsset Panda, NetAsset, QuickBooks, Xero
against: Oracle NetSuite, Sage Fixed Assets
against: Excel, Google Sheets, Oracle, Oracle NetSuite, SAP Asset Accounting, Snipe-IT
Perplexity SonarAssetAccountant, QuickBooks
One alternativeXero
against: Asset Panda, AssetTiger
XeroChanged
Three alternativesAssetTiger, Puzzle, Sage Fixed Assets
Sage Fixed Assets
Five alternativesAsset Panda, AssetTiger, GoCodes, NetSuite Fixed Assets Management, QuickBooks Online + AssetAccountant
against: UpKeep
AssetTiger
One alternativeXero
against: QuickBooks Online + AssetAccountant
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.20QuickBooks
Two alternativesAsset Panda, Xero
AssetTigerChanged
One alternativeEZOfficeInventory
against: Asset Panda, QuickBooks
AssetTiger
Four alternativesAsset Panda, EZOfficeInventory, Fixed Asset Pro, Snipe-IT
AssetTiger
Two alternativesFixed Asset Pro, Xero
against: Asset Panda
no first choiceagainst: SAP Asset Accountingagainst: Bloomberg Tax Fixed Assets, Excel, Fixed Asset Pro, Google Sheets, NetSuite Fixed Assets Management, Oracle Fusion Cloud Fixed Assets, SAP Asset Accounting, Sage Fixed Assets
Mistral SmallQuickBooks, Xero
Four alternativesAssetAccountant, EZOfficeInventory, Hardcat, NetSuite Fixed Assets Management
Asset Infinity, AssetTigerChangedagainst: Sage Fixed Assetsno first choice
Two alternativesEZOfficeInventory, Sage Fixed Assets
EZOfficeInventory, Xero
One alternativeBricks Fixed Assets
against: NetSuite Fixed Assets Management
no first choicenothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashIntuit Enterprise Suite, QuickBooks
Five alternativesAsset Panda, AssetAccountant, EZOfficeInventory, Sage Fixed Assets, Xero
against: NetSuite Fixed Assets Management
AssetAccountantChanged
Two alternativesAsset Panda, QuickBooks
AssetAccountant, GoCodes, QuickBooks, Snipe-IT
Three alternativesAsset Panda, EZOfficeInventory, Wasp AssetCloud
against: Sage Fixed Assets
AssetTiger
Two alternativesAssetAccountant, Xero
against: QuickBooks
no first choiceagainst: Asset Panda, Asset.Guru, Oracle, Oracle NetSuite, SAP Asset Accounting, Wasp RFID, nettTracker
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceAsset SharkChanged
Two alternativesEnerpize, Xero
no first choiceEZOfficeInventory
One alternativeNetSuite Fixed Assets Management
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashHardcat, Sage Fixed Assets
Two alternativesAssetbase, Tracktivity
AssetAccountantChanged
Three alternativesAsset Panda, QuickBooks, Xero
EZOfficeInventory, Sage Fixed Assets
Three alternativesAsset Panda, AssetTiger, Xero
QuickBooks
Two alternativesEZOfficeInventory, Xero
Accurate, Fixed Asset Pro, TRIRIGGA
One alternativeQuickBooks
against: Oracle, SAP Asset Accounting
against: Bloomberg Tax Fixed Assets, CCH ProSystem fx Fixed Assets, NetSuite Fixed Assets Management, QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, Xero
Kimi K2Xero
Two alternativesAssetAccountant, Sage Fixed Assets
against: QuickBooks
AssetAccountantChanged
Two alternativesAsset Infinity, Wasp AssetCloud
AssetAccountant
Four alternativesAssetTiger, EZOfficeInventory, Snipe-IT, Sortly
AssetFrog
Two alternativesFixed Asset Pro, Xero
EZOfficeInventory, WorthIt Fixed Assets
One alternativeSage Fixed Assets
against: MRI Fixed Asset Accounting
against: Bloomberg Tax Fixed Assets, CCH ProSystem fx Fixed Assets, Excel/Google Sheets, Oracle NetSuite, QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, Xero
GLM 4.7 FlashXAssetAccountant
Two alternativesQuickBooks, Xero
against: QuickBooks, Sage Fixed Assets
QuickBooks, XeroChanged
Four alternativesAssetAccountant, Bassets eDepreciation, Fincent, Steer the Books
AssetTiger, EZOfficeInventory
Five alternativesAsset Panda, NetSuite Fixed Assets Management, Sage Fixed Assets, Snipe-IT, UpKeep
AssetTiger
Three alternativesEZOfficeInventory, QuickBooks, xAssets
no first choicenothing named
MiniMax M2.5QuickBooks, Xero
Three alternativesBloomberg Tax Fixed Assets, Fixed Asset Pro, Hardcat
Asset Panda, Bassets eDepreciationChanged
Two alternativesAsset Shark, EZOfficeInventory
Asset Panda, EZOfficeInventory
One alternativeQuickBooks
ProfitBooks, Xero
One alternativeAssetFrog
against: QuickBooks
no first choiceagainst: Excel/Google Sheets, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Oracle Fusion Cloud Fixed Assets, SAP Asset Accounting
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 20:51yes98 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:03yes24 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:02yes2221 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:50yes206 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 18:17yes2818 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:40yes87 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:38yes820 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:30yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:06yes928 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:59yes1444 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:04yes2072 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:33yes510 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:47yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:46yes35 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:19yes1650 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:25yes166 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 19:11yes3516 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:53yes55 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 19:27yes2354 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:33yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:34yes1330 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:46yes817 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:04yes2277 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:54yes1450 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:06yes99 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:12yes38 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:31yes1822 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:10yes209 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 20:31yes3519 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:15yes55 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:14yes2841 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:31yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:08yes1949 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:30yes2031 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:04yes2959 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:55yes918 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:57yes97 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:48yes37 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:50yes1427 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:56yes176 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 18:25yes3617 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:46yes66 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:58yes1616 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:29yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:54yes935 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:24yes1016 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:25yes2423 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:23yes1428 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:46no05 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:33no06 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:57yes1050 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:00yes206 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 18:39yes159 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:25no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 18:46yes1238 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:27yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:17no027 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:51yes1022 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:28yes11120 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:02yes524 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:03yes97 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:50no04 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:57yes1655 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:35yes207 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 18:18yes2817 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:02yes57 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:48yes1616 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:59yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:55yes930 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:48yes1637 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:17yes15550 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:05no061 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
Bassets read as Bassets eDepreciation
MRI read as MRI Fixed Asset Accounting
MRI Software read as MRI Fixed Asset Accounting
NetSuite read as Oracle NetSuite
NetSuite Fixed Assets read as NetSuite Fixed Assets Management
QuickBooks Online read as QuickBooks
QuickBooks Online "Simple Start" read as QuickBooks
QuickBooks Online (Advanced) read as QuickBooks
QuickBooks Online Advanced read as QuickBooks
SAP read as SAP Asset Accounting
Sage read as Sage Fixed Assets
Unresolved, counted raw
Accurate
DepreciationPro
Enerpize
Fincent
OfficeSpace
Steer the Books
TRIRIGGA
Tracktivity
Wasp RFID
mydepreciation.org
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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