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Lease accounting for small business buyers

Asked as “lease accounting software”, and as “ASC 842 and IFRS 16 compliance tool”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 48 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
25%
Contested · iLeasePro 19%
25EZLease19iLeasePro12LeaseGuru44others

25% 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
01EZLease25%3%33accepted challenger
02iLeasePro19%14%29accepted challenger
03LeaseGuru12%0%14accepted challenger
04FinQuery10%15%33accepted challenger
05NetLease4%13%15accepted challenger
06Crunchafi2%10%20accepted challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
09Visual Lease0%58%19criticized challenger
08Xero0%46%13criticized challenger
07Trullion0%17%23accepted 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% negative40%
Key
01EZLease25%
02iLeasePro19%
03LeaseGuru12%
04FinQuery10%
05NetLease4%
06Crunchafi2%
07Trullion0%
08Xero0%
09Visual Lease0%

What they warned about

Zero of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, 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.
Visual Lease
58%
11 of 19 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“avoiding enterprise-grade lease accounting software (such as CoStar, Visual Lease, or MRI ProLease), which can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars a year” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
Microsoft Excel
83%
5 of 6 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Auditors frequently flag Excel-based trackers because they lack version control and an audit trail.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Trullion
17%
4 of 23 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“These are powerful tools designed for massive global real estate portfolios. For a small business, they are often prohibitively expensive and complex to configure.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
LeaseAccelerator
57%
4 of 7 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“avoiding enterprise-heavy tools like Visual Lease or LeaseAccelerator” Grok 4.20, comparative 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

63 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. 910 links across 104 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

50 answers · 94 citations · 11 models
vendor site · G233 answers · 69 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Netgain33 answers · 41 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Capterra32 answers · 54 citations · 12 models
vendor site · DebtBook30 answers · 36 citations · 10 models
30 answers · 30 citations · 11 models
vendor site · FinQuery29 answers · 37 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Black Owl Systems28 answers · 29 citations · 11 models
vendor site · GetApp27 answers · 35 citations · 11 models
25 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Trullion24 answers · 31 citations · 10 models
23 answers · 27 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 lease accounting software”, “lease accounting software”, “lease accounting 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
EZLease ezlease.com25%501400107
FinQuery finquery.com
LeaseGuru 12%, FinQuery 10%, LeaseQuery powered 0%
23%1381,3001764,567$4,354333
iLeasePro ileasepro.com19%174004391
Spacebase spacebaseapp.com8%7320723336
iLeaseXpress6%0
NetLease4%1,9002
Crunchafi crunchafi.com
Crunchafi 2%, LeaseCrunch 0%
2%301,300713,969168
Cradle Accounting cradleaccounting.com2%444862
AssetAccountant asset.accountant2%7317031,6297
Leasecake leasecake.com2%1759001,930$1,34111

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 22 sites; 7 of them are among the sites the models cited here (debtbook.com, finquery.com, g2.com, gartner.com, getapp.com, netgain.tech, softwareadvice.com). The first result for “best lease accounting software” is g2.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 lease accounting software for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which ASC 842 and IFRS 16 compliance tool would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top lease accounting tools for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best lease accounting software for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a lease accounting software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which lease accounting tools should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5iLeasePro
Three alternativesEZLease, FinQuery, LeaseGuru
LeaseGuruChanged
Two alternativesFinQuery, Trullion
FinQuery
Two alternativesCrunchafi, Trullion
EZLease, iLeaseProno first choiceagainst: Microsoft Excel
GPT-5.4 miniLeaseGuru
Two alternativesCrunchafi, LeaseQuery powered
against: NetLease, Trullion, Visual Lease
Cradle AccountingChanged
Four alternativesEZLease, FinQuery, NetLease, Onederful
FinQuery
Six alternativesAssetAccountant, EZLease, NetLease, Occupier, Trullion, Visual Lease
EZLease, LeaseGuru
Two alternativesCrunchafi, Rubli
no first choiceagainst: Crunchafi, FinQuery, Leasecake
Gemini 3.5 FlashNetLease
Three alternativesCrunchafi, LeaseGuru, iLeaseXpress
AssetAccountant, EZLeaseChanged
Three alternativesBlack Owl Systems, NetLease, Trullion
against: iLeasePro
iLeasePro
Four alternativesCradle Accounting, Crunchafi, DebtBook, Trullion
against: FinQuery, Visual Lease
iLeaseXpress
Four alternativesAssetAccountant, Crunchafi, LeaseGuru, NetLease
against: CoStar Real Estate Manager, MRI ProLease, Microsoft Excel, Visual Lease
iLeaseXpress
Three alternativesCradle Accounting, NetLease, Trullion
against: CoStar Real Estate Manager, Google Sheets, LeaseAccelerator, MRI ProLease, Microsoft Excel, Nakisa Lease Administration, NetSuite Lease Accounting, Oracle Lease Accounting, SAP RE-FX
Perplexity SonarEZLease, Spacebase
One alternativeFinQuery
against: Xero
FinQueryChanged
Three alternativesNetLease, SOFT4Lessee, Trullion
EZLease, iLeasePro
Two alternativesFinQuery, Trullion
EZLease
One alternativeiLeasePro
against: Xero
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.20iLeasePro
Two alternativesFinQuery, Trullion
against: QuickBooks, Visual Lease, Xero
EZLeaseChanged
Four alternativesCradle Accounting, LeaseCrunch, LeaseGuru, NetLease
against: Trullion, Visual Lease
EZLease
Three alternativesFinQuery, Trullion, iLeasePro
against: LeaseAccelerator, Visual Lease, Xero
iLeasePro
Two alternativesEZLease, LeaseGuru
no first choiceagainst: Crunchafi / LeaseCrunch, NetLease, Oracle Lease Management, SAP RE-FX, Xero
Mistral SmallEZLease, Spacebase
One alternativeXero
SpacebaseChanged
One alternativeFinQuery
EZLease
Two alternativesTrullion, Visual Lease
against: LeaseAccelerator
EZLeaseno first choice
Two alternativesLeaseCrunch, NetLease
nothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashiLeasePro
Five alternativesCradle Accounting, Crunchafi, FinQuery, LeaseGuru, Occupier
CrunchafiChanged
Three alternativesEZLease, iLeasePro, iLeaseXpress
against: FinQuery
LeaseGuru
Four alternativesEZLease, Leasecake, NetLease, iLeasePro
LeaseGuru
Two alternativesCrunchafi, iLeaseXpress
iLeasePro, iLeaseXpress
One alternativeCrunchafi
against: EZLease, FinQuery, Nakisa Lease Administration, Visual Lease
against: FinQuery, Oracle Lease Accounting, SAP RE-FX, iLeasePro
Llama 4 MaverickSpacebase
Two alternativesEZLease, Xero
no first choiceChangedEZLease
Three alternativesLeaseAccelerator, Trullion, Visual Lease
EZLeaseLeasecake
One alternativeSage Intacct
nothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashLeaseLogix
Two alternativesFinQuery, Leasify
against: FloQast
FinQueryChanged
One alternativeLeaseBook
against: Real Page
FinQuery
Three alternativesNetLease, Occupier, Trullion
LeaseBooks
Two alternativesLeaseDocket, LeaseLogix
no first choiceagainst: CoStar Real Estate Manager, Crunchafi, MRI ProLease, Microsoft Excel, Nakisa Lease Administration, Trullion, Visual Lease, iLeasePro
Kimi K2iLeasePro
Three alternativesCrunchafi, EZLease, FinQuery
against: CoStar Real Estate Manager, Visual Lease
FinQueryChanged
One alternativeBlack Owl Systems
against: LeaseAccelerator, Visual Lease, iLeasePro
EZLease, iLeasePro
Three alternativesCrunchafi, Leasecake, Occupier
LeaseGuru
Two alternativesEZLease, iLeasePro
no first choiceagainst: Microsoft Excel
GLM 4.7 FlashXEZLease, iLeasePro
Two alternativesCrunchafi, Xero
FinQueryChanged
Two alternativesTrullion, iLeasePro
FinQuery
Four alternativesEZLease, Trullion, Xero, iLeasePro
against: Visual Lease
EZLease, iLeasePro
Two alternativesAssetAccountant, Rubli
EZLease, FinQuery
Three alternativesCrunchafi, Trullion, Visual Lease
nothing named
MiniMax M2.5no first choiceagainst: XeroLeaseGuruChanged
One alternativeFinQuery
against: Spacebase, Trullion
EZLease, iLeasePro
Five alternativesCrunchafi, FinQuery, Leasecake, Occupier, SOFT4Lessee
LeaseSage, NetLeaseno first choicenothing named
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 19:24yes97 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:52yes46 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:56yes2722 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:47yes205 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 19:50yes2618 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:16yes53 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:03yes1633 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:04yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:00no030 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:43yes1332 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:39yes1548 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:00yes518 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:44yes108 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:46yes25 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 20:06yes1126 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:55yes205 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 18:28yes3220 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:20yes54 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:55yes1920 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:43yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:12no024 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:33yes1674 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:25yes24113 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:41yes2048 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:51yes1614 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:04yes49 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:16yes25150 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:14yes209 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 18:36yes2019 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:17yes57 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:10yes2132 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:36yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:19yes922 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:44yes2140 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:30yes13154 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:09yes721 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:21yes97 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:56yes35 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:16yes23162 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:06yes207 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 17:53yes3418 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:56yes510 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 19:16yes2449 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:16yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:21no034 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:54yes2028 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:32yes2346 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:57no010 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:15no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:19no09 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:19yes1454 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:24yes2010 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 21:06yes1310 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:43no08 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:43yes1822 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:37yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:38no026 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:21yes1018 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:00yes1376 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:21no060 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:47yes1710 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:37yes37 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:25yes1222 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:27yes209 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 19:15yes2214 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:41yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:06yes2631 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:43yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:27yes1043 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:56yes1926 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:49yes1454 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:45yes2334 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
Accruent read as Accruent Lucernex
Black Owl read as Black Owl Systems
CoStar read as CoStar Real Estate Manager
Cradle read as Cradle Accounting
Cradle (by Prophix) read as Cradle Accounting
Excel read as Microsoft Excel
Excel Spreadsheets read as Microsoft Excel
MRI Software (ProLease) read as MRI ProLease
Nakisa read as Nakisa Lease Administration
NetSuite (e.g., NetLease) read as NetSuite Lease Accounting
Oracle read as Oracle Lease Accounting
SAP read as SAP RE-FX
SAP Lease Management read as SAP RE-FX
Unresolved, counted raw
BrightLease
CoStar-type tools
FinanceOne Lease
LeaseBook
LeaseBooks
LeaseDocket
LeaseEagle
LeaseHub
LeaseLab
LeaseSage
Leaser.io
Leasify
Lessee
QuickBooks Lease Manager
Real Page (by TRS)
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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