accepted challengerNamed in twenty-five categories this edition.
accepted challengerNamed in twenty categories this edition.
First-choice share8%8%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate3%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#5A position in a field of 15; printed, not drawn.
Labels3715A count; the two differ.
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
How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
XeroFirst choices, of fourteen modelsSage Intacct
Direct13
Paraphrase30
Comparative10
Budget-constrained00
Scale-constrained01
Negative001 against Xero
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Xero and Sage Intacct were named in the same answer 152 times, of the 798 answers naming Xero and the 553 naming Sage Intacct. In those answers Sage Intacct took the first choice twelve times and Xero eighteen.
The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Xero and Sage Intacct stood in it.
Xero first, Sage Intacct not the choice
1 of 14 modelsSage Intacct was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Mistral SmallQuickBooks, Xero alternatives: Rho Invoicing, Stripe Invoicing, Zoho Books
Sage Intacct first, Xero an alternative
3 of 14 modelsXero was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.GPT-5.4 miniNetSuite SuiteBilling, Sage Intacct alternatives: Sage 200-class mid-market tools, Xero
Qwen 3.7 FlashSage Intacct alternatives: BILL, Invoiced, NetSuite SuiteBilling
Kimi K2Sage Intacct alternatives: BILL, NetSuite SuiteBilling, QuickBooks
Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Perplexity SonarInvoiced alternatives: Billtrust, Chaser, Gaviti, QuickBooks, Upflow, Xero, Zoho Books
xAIGrok 4.20QuickBooks alternatives: Invoiced, NetSuite SuiteBilling, Sage Intacct, Xero
DeepSeek V4 FlashBILL alternatives: Sage Intacct, Xero
Z.AIGLM 4.7 FlashXXero Growing alternatives: Invoiced, QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, Zoho Books
MiniMax M2.5Versapay alternatives: Invoiced, Sage Intacct
Muse Glimmer 30BQuickBooks alternatives: Invoiced, Precoro, Xero, Zoho Books
Neither was named
4 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Claude Haiku 4.5Younium alternatives: BILL, Coupa, Rillion, Tipalti
Gemini 3.5 FlashVersapay alternatives: Billtrust, HighRadius, Maxio, Quadient AR
Llama 4 MaverickQuickBooks alternatives: Rho Invoicing, Stripe Invoicing, Xero Growing, Zoho Books
GPT-6 LunaVersapay alternatives: Chargebee, Invoiced, Maxio
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.
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.