Wave vs Xero
Zero of fourteen models named Wave first on the direct prompt; one named Xero. Both were named by all fourteen models and Wave carries 39 labels and Xero 37, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in sixteen categories this edition.
Named in twenty-five categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the invoicing software page.
By framing
WaveFirst choices, of fourteen modelsXero
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Wave and Xero were named in the same answer 220 times, of the 399 answers naming Wave and the 798 naming Xero. In those answers Xero took the first choice thirty-five times and Wave forty-three.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | | | | ||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | ||||
| GPT-6 Luna | | | | |||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | | | |
Wave Xero first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Wave on the left and Xero on the right.The direct prompt
Xero first, Wave not the choice
1 of 14 modelsWave was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
5 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
8 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Xero4%#9 of 20Wave0%#19 of 20What the models said about Wave
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“Not compliant with French PDP ... requirements as of mid-2026, meaning invoices issued to French companies may not be legally enforceable.” Mistral Small · negative prompt · hard negative
“Wave and Zoho Invoice may not be suitable for businesses in France due to compliance issues” Llama 4 Maverick · negative prompt · hard negative
What the models said about Xero
No label in this category carried a quote.
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.