# Lease accounting for small business buyers: what AI models recommend, September 2026

Gane Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "lease accounting software" and as "ASC 842 and IFRS 16 compliance tool", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of a small B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/accounting/lease-accounting/2026-09/smb

This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/accounting/lease-accounting/smb/index.md

**Standing:** EZLease leads with 25% of first choices; verdict contested. 48 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [EZLease](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/ezlease/index.md) | 25% | 3% | 33 |
| 2 | [iLeasePro](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/ileasepro/index.md) | 19% | 14% | 29 |
| 3 | [LeaseGuru](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/leaseguru/index.md) | 12% | 0% | 14 |
| 4 | [FinQuery](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/finquery/index.md) | 10% | 15% | 33 |
| 7 | [NetLease](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/netlease/index.md) | 4% | 13% | 15 |
| 8 | [Crunchafi](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/crunchafi/index.md) | 2% | 10% | 20 |
| 15 | [Trullion](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/trullion/index.md) | 0% | 17% | 23 |
| 49 | [Xero](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/xero/index.md) | 0% | 46% | 13 |
| 62 | [Visual Lease](https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/vendors/visual-lease/index.md) | 0% | 58% | 19 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 62 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: iLeasePro; alternatives EZLease, FinQuery, LeaseGuru
- GPT-5.4 mini: LeaseGuru; alternatives Crunchafi, LeaseQuery powered
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: NetLease; alternatives Crunchafi, LeaseGuru, iLeaseXpress
- Perplexity Sonar: EZLease, Spacebase; alternatives FinQuery
- Grok 4.20: iLeasePro; alternatives FinQuery, Trullion
- Mistral Small: EZLease, Spacebase; alternatives Xero
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: iLeasePro; alternatives Cradle Accounting, Crunchafi, FinQuery, LeaseGuru
- Llama 4 Maverick: Spacebase; alternatives EZLease, Xero
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: LeaseLogix; alternatives FinQuery, Leasify
- Kimi K2: iLeasePro; alternatives Crunchafi, EZLease, FinQuery
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: EZLease, iLeasePro; alternatives Crunchafi, Xero
- MiniMax M2.5: no first choice

## Sources the answers cite

63 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- softwareconnect.com: 50 answers, 94 citations
- g2.com: 33 answers, 69 citations
- netgain.tech: 33 answers, 41 citations
- capterra.com: 32 answers, 54 citations
- debtbook.com: 30 answers, 36 citations
- gartner.com: 30 answers, 30 citations
- finquery.com: 29 answers, 37 citations
- blackowlsystems.com: 28 answers, 29 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://softwareconnect.com/roundups/best-lease-accounting-software (44 answers)
- https://softwareconnect.com/roundups/best-lease-management-software (32 answers)
- https://gartner.com/reviews/market/lease-accounting-and-management-software (30 answers)
- https://debtbook.com/blog/best-lease-accounting-software (29 answers)
- https://netgain.tech/blog/best-lease-accounting-software (28 answers)
- https://acquisition-international.com/best-lease-accounting-software-of-2026-from-compliance-to-cashflow (25 answers)
- https://blackowlsystems.com/best-lease-accounting-software-in-2026-compared (22 answers)
- https://capterra.com/lease-accounting-software/s/small-businesses (22 answers)
- https://getapp.com/finance-accounting-software/lease-accounting/org/small-business (22 answers)
- https://capterra.com/lease-accounting-software (19 answers)

## Warned against

- Visual Lease: 11 of 19 labels 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: 5 of 6 labels negative. "Auditors frequently flag Excel-based trackers because they lack version control and an audit trail." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt)
- Trullion: 4 of 23 labels 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: 4 of 7 labels negative. "avoiding enterprise-heavy tools like Visual Lease or LeaseAccelerator" (Grok 4.20, comparative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/finance/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, September 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/finance.