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Procure-to-pay

Asked as “procure-to-pay platform”, and as “purchasing software”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 47 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
45%
Clear leader
45Procurify17Ramp06Precoro32others

45% of first choices, clear leader.

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 mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Procurify45%4%46endorsed leader
02Ramp17%5%19accepted challenger
03Precoro6%5%40accepted challenger
04Tradogram6%0%18accepted challenger
05ProcureDesk4%0%12accepted challenger
06Tipalti2%8%12accepted challenger
07Stampli2%10%10accepted challenger
08Coupa2%47%38criticized challenger
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13SAP Ariba0%51%37criticized challenger
12Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement0%36%11criticized challenger
11Ivalua0%21%14accepted challenger
10Jaggaer0%14%14accepted challenger
09GEP SMART0%7%14accepted 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.
All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight 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%.

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01Procurify45%
02Ramp17%
03Precoro6%
04Tradogram6%
05ProcureDesk4%
06Tipalti2%
07Stampli2%
08Coupa2%
09GEP SMART0%
10Jaggaer0%
11Ivalua0%
12Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement0%
13SAP Ariba0%

What they warned about

Four of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Perplexity Sonar, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, 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.
SAP Ariba
51%
19 of 37 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 10 hard negative
“Procurement systems are always convoluted but SAP Ariba is by far the worst! I would strongly encourage any procurement team to avoid using this platform.” Kimi K2, negative prompt
Coupa
47%
18 of 38 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 6 hard negative
“more enterprise-oriented platforms such as Coupa, SAP Ariba, and similar suites are generally not the best fit for a limited budget” Perplexity Sonar, budget prompt
Alibaba
100%
4 of 4 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“avoid for safety reasons are the open B2B marketplaces (Global Sources especially, Alibaba with care)” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
36%
4 of 11 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“you must avoid the classic mistake of evaluating enterprise-level P2P suites... (such as SAP Ariba or complex Oracle deployments)” Gemini 3.5 Flash, scale 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. 921 links across 261 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · G228 answers · 31 citations · 11 models
vendor site · ProcureDesk24 answers · 33 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Order.co22 answers · 25 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Spendflo20 answers · 23 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Tradogram20 answers · 21 citations · 11 models
19 answers · 20 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Procurify18 answers · 38 citations · 10 models
vendor site · G217 answers · 29 citations · 7 models
17 answers · 17 citations · 11 models
vendor site · APSentra16 answers · 17 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Fraxion15 answers · 18 citations · 9 models
13 answers · 17 citations · 8 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 procure-to-pay platform”, “procure-to-pay platform”, “procurement platforms”. 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
Procurify procurify.com45%2784,4004362,225$28214
Ramp ramp.com17%916246,00049,733770,056$13,511120
Precoro precoro.com6%3411,000382,96686
Tradogram tradogram.com6%1248804208,1291
ProcureDesk procuredesk.com4%29720111,67755
APSentra apsentra.com4%1
Spendwise spendwise.com4%2272034012
Tipalti tipalti.com2%49018,100381213,652$83,363120
Teampay paystand.com2%115901159,075$55,50451
Stampli stampli.com2%19418,1006826,332$3953

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 24 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (g2.com, gartner.com, learn.g2.com, procuredesk.com). The first result for “best procure-to-pay platform” is gartner.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 procure-to-pay platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which purchasing software would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top procurement platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best procure-to-pay platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a procure-to-pay platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which procurement platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5ProcureDesk
Two alternativesProcurify, Rillion
ProcurifyChanged
Two alternativesPrecoro, Teampay
against: Spendwise, Xero, Zoho Books
no first choicePrecoro
Two alternativesProcurify, Zoho Procurements
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniProcurify
Three alternativesOrder.co, ProcureDesk, Tipalti
against: Coupa
Coupa, ProcurifyChanged
One alternativeSAP Ariba
against: Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
no first choice
Seven alternativesCoupa, GEP SMART, Ivalua, Jaggaer, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba, Zycus
Spendwise
Three alternativesPrecoro, ProcureDesk, SpendHound
against: Procurify
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashProcurify
Four alternativesPrecoro, Ramp, Tipalti, Zip
ProcurifyHeld
Four alternativesOrder.co, Precoro, ProcureDesk, Zip
against: Coupa, SAP Ariba
Coupa
Six alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua, Precoro, Procurify, SAP Ariba, Zip
Ramp
Four alternativesDigital Purchase Order, Precoro, Tradogram, Zoho Books / Zoho Inventory
against: Coupa, SAP Ariba
Tipalti
Six alternativesAirbase, Order.co, Precoro, Procurify, Ramp, Zip
against: Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
against: Coupa, Ivalua, Legacy ERP Procurement Modules, SAP Ariba
Perplexity SonarProcureDesk
Four alternativesPrecoro, Procurify, Ramp, Rillion
ProcurifyChanged
Two alternativesPrecoro, Ramp
no first choiceSpendwise
Three alternativesOdoo, Tradogram, Zoho Inventory
against: Coupa, Precoro, Procurify, SAP Ariba
no first choiceagainst: Basware, Coupa, GEP SMART, Ivalua, Jaggaer, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, Precoro, ProcurementExpress.com, Ramp, Rippling Spend, SAP Ariba, Workday P2P/T&E
Grok 4.20Procurify
Three alternativesFraxion, Precoro, Ramp
against: Coupa
ProcurifyHeld
Four alternativesPrecoro, ProcureDesk, Teampay, Tradogram
against: Coupa, SAP Ariba
no first choice
Seven alternativesCoupa, GEP SMART, Ivalua, Jaggaer, Precoro, Procurify, SAP Ariba
Ramp
Two alternativesOdoo, Zoho Inventory
no first choiceagainst: Alibaba, Coupa, DHgate, EC21, Global Sources, Made-in-China, SAP Ariba, Tradekey
Mistral SmallPrecoro, Procurify
Three alternativesAPSentra, Coupa, Ramp
ProcurifyChanged
Two alternativesTeampay, Tradogram
Coupa
Four alternativesIvalua, Jaggaer, SAP Ariba, Zip
Ramp, Teampayagainst: Nanonetsno first choicenothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashProcurify
Two alternativesGEP SMART, Precoro
against: Basware, Coupa
ProcurifyHeld
Four alternativesAirbase, PLANERGY, Precoro, ProcureDesk
Coupa, SAP Ariba
Six alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua, Jaggaer, Precoro, Procurify, Workday Strategic Sourcing
Ramp
Four alternativesOdoo, Precoro, Tradogram, Zoho Inventory
no first choiceagainst: Coupa, SAP Aribaagainst: Alibaba, Coupa, Global Sources, Ivalua, SAP Ariba
Llama 4 MaverickAPSentra, Procurify, Rampno first choiceChangedSAP Ariba
Three alternativesCoupa, GEP SMART, Zapro
Pipefy, Xero
Two alternativesProcurementExpress.com, Tradogram
no first choiceagainst: SAP Ariba, Workday P2P/T&E
Qwen 3.7 FlashProcurify
Three alternativesAPSentra, Fraxion, Oracle NetSuite
against: Coupa, SAP Ariba
ProcurifyHeld
Five alternativesCoupa, Ivalua, Rippling Spend, Tradogram, Zoho Books
no first choice
Seven alternativesCoupa, GEP SMART, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, Precoro, Procurify, SAP Ariba, Zapro
Ramp
Two alternativesPrecoro, Teampay
no first choiceagainst: Alibaba, Government e-Marketplace, SAP Ariba
Kimi K2Procurify, Stampli
One alternativePrecoro
against: Tipalti
ProcurifyChanged
Three alternativesOrder.co, Precoro, Tradogram
against: Coupa, Jaggaer, SAP Ariba
no first choice
Seven alternativesCoupa, GEP SMART, Ivalua, Precoro, Procurify, SAP Ariba, Tradogram
against: Zycus
Ramp
Four alternativesPrecoro, ProcureDesk, Spendwise, Zoho Inventory
Procurify
Three alternativesPrecoro, Stampli, Tipalti
against: Coupa, SAP Ariba
against: Alibaba, Global Sources, Made-in-China, SAP Ariba
GLM 4.7 FlashXProcurify
Three alternativesAPSentra, Precoro, ProcureDesk
against: Coupa, SAP Ariba, Stampli
Precoro, ProcurifyChanged
Three alternativesCoupa, Jaggaer, SAP Ariba
no first choice
Seven alternativesCoupa, GEP SMART, Market Dojo, Precoro, Procurify, SAP Ariba, Zapro
Tradogram
Six alternativesDigital Purchase Order, ERPNext, Precoro, Procuman, ProcureDesk, Spendwise
no first choiceagainst: Coupa, SAP Ariba
MiniMax M2.5APSentra
Two alternativesPrecoro, Procurify
Procurify, TradogramChanged
Two alternativesControlHub, VISCO
Coupa, SAP Ariba
Five alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, Precoro, Procurify, Tradogram, Zapro
Ramp, Tradogram
One alternativePipefy
no first choiceagainst: Coupa, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Aribaagainst: Chain IQ Group AG, Procure.com, Roseltorg
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 17:54yes99 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:53yes47 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:12yes1520 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:43yes206 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 18:48yes3418 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:29yes55 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 18:58yes2150 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:42yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:50yes519 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:59yes1026 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:01yes25126 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:40yes520 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:41yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:57no03 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:57yes1017 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:54yes206 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 18:15yes148 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:54yes55 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:03yes1313 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:05yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:55yes515 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:27yes915 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:07yes15219 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:38yes514 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:17yes109 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:41yes712 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:16yes20160 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:24yes2010 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 20:14yes3417 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:01yes1011 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 18:56yes1841 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:59yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:30yes516 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:55yes1568 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:06yes1025 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:05yes1524 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:47yes169 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:03yes55 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:32yes1520 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:58yes207 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 19:56yes3518 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:47yes53 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:34yes2321 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:55yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:33yes527 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:31yes822 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:53yes2070 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:04yes511 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:55no08 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:55no010 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:56yes1223 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:20yes209 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 18:40yes1915 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:24no08 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:12yes1921 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:07yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:26no026 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:24yes1424 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:18yes1450 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:34yes820 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:52yes187 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:05no05 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:17yes2556 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:40yes208 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 19:48yes4817 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:46yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:06yes1921 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:19yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:41yes1530 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:22yes2229 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:38yes1434 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:22yes2036 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
Ariba read as SAP Ariba
Bill.com read as BILL
GEP read as GEP SMART
Kissflow read as Kissflow Procurement
NetSuite read as Oracle NetSuite
Oracle read as Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
Oracle Fusion read as Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
Oracle Procurement read as Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
Oracle Procurement Cloud read as Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
Rippling read as Rippling Spend
ServiceNow read as ServiceNow Source-to-Pay Operations
Zapro.ai read as Zapro
Zoho Procure read as Zoho Procurement
Unresolved, counted raw
Chain IQ Group AG
EC21
Elementum
Government e-Marketplace (GeM)
Legacy ERP Procurement Modules (e.g., older Oracle, JD Edwards, or on-premise SAP ECC)
Opstream
Procure.com
Roseltorg
Sirion
Tradekey
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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