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Index › Finance › Spend and procurement › Procure-to-pay › Enterprise · September 2026 Edition

Procure-to-pay for enterprise buyers

Asked as “procure-to-pay platform”, and as “purchasing software”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 53 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
42%
Clear leader
42Coupa36SAP Ariba09Ivalua13others

42% 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 an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Coupa42%15%55endorsed leader
02SAP Ariba36%16%61endorsed leader
03Ivalua9%2%41accepted challenger
04GEP SMART2%3%32accepted challenger
05Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement2%10%31accepted challenger
06Zip2%8%13accepted challenger
Show the one product at 0%, ordered by negative rate
07Jaggaer0%7%30accepted 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 enterprise.
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%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative60%
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01Coupa42%
02SAP Ariba36%
03Ivalua9%
04GEP SMART2%
05Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement2%
06Zip2%
07Jaggaer0%

What they warned about

Four of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2 and GLM 4.7 FlashX 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
16%
10 of 61 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“When to Avoid: Unless you're deeply embedded in SAP (e.g., S/4HANA users), skip it.” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
Coupa
15%
8 of 55 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid Coupa's standard per-seat licensing: ... Coupa's standard per-user/per-module pricing can become cost-prohibitive” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
10%
3 of 31 labels negative · 3 of 12 models
“For large enterprises running different stacks, configuring Oracle Procurement to talk to your legacy systems can result in months of delayed deployment and steep professional services bills.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Amazon Business
100%
2 of 2 labels negative · 2 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“making it risky for complex enterprise procurement needs” Mistral Small, negative 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

64 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. 949 links across 246 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

27 answers · 44 citations · 11 models
27 answers · 30 citations · 10 models
vendor site · G224 answers · 24 citations · 11 models
20 answers · 22 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Guideflow17 answers · 20 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Ivalua16 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Zycus16 answers · 20 citations · 6 models
vendor site · Precoro15 answers · 20 citations · 8 models
14 answers · 25 citations · 6 models
vendor site · G214 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
14 answers · 18 citations · 10 models
13 answers · 13 citations · 7 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
Coupa coupa.com42%63760,5001,21041,319$339912
SAP Ariba sap.com36%5538,1005542,214,514$1,25123
Ivalua ivalua.com9%3133,6008735,51580
Stampli stampli.com4%19418,1006826,332$3953
GEP gep.com
GEP SMART 2%, GEP NEXXT 0%
2%1888802654,424 company519
Oracle Fusion oracle.com
Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement 2%
2%15517027,410,638 company$247101
Zip zip.com2%96301,000498,43618,66934
Precoro precoro.com2%3411,000382,96686
Pivot pivotapp.ai2%24
Jaggaer jaggaer.com0%2315,40021821,919$829

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, procurementmag.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 an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which purchasing software would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade procurement platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best procure-to-pay platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a procure-to-pay platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which procurement platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceSAP AribaChanged
Five alternativesCorcentric, Coupa, Determine, Infor CloudSuite, Jaggaer
no first choicePivot
Two alternativesCoupa, SAP Ariba
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniCoupa
Three alternativesIvalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
Coupa, IvaluaChanged
Two alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
no first choice
Five alternativesCoupa, GEP SMART, Ivalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
Coupa
One alternativeSAP Ariba
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashCoupa, SAP Ariba
Four alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua, Jaggaer, Zip
CoupaChanged
Four alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua, SAP Ariba, Zip
Coupa
Six alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua, Jaggaer, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba, Zip
Ivalua
Three alternativesBasware, Precoro, SAP Ariba
against: Coupa
no first choiceagainst: Coupa, Fraxion, Jaggaer, Precoro, Procurify, SAP Ariba, Tradogram
Perplexity SonarCoupa
Four alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
SAP AribaChanged
Two alternativesCoupa, Ivalua
no first choicePrecoro
One alternativeCoupa
against: SAP Ariba
Coupa, Ivalua, SAP Aribaagainst: Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, Order.co, Precoro, ProcurementExpress.com, Procurify, Ramp, Rippling Spend, Tradogram, Workday P2P/T&E
Grok 4.20Coupa, SAP Ariba
Two alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua
Coupa, SAP AribaHeld
Four alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua, Jaggaer, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
Coupa, Ivalua
Four alternativesGEP SMART, Jaggaer, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
against: Zip, Zycus
Coupa, SAP Ariba
Three alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
Coupa
Three alternativesIvalua, SAP Ariba, Zycus
against: Coupa, GEP SMART, Ivalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
Mistral SmallSAP Ariba
Two alternativesCoupa, Jaggaer
SAP AribaHeld
Three alternativesCoupa, Ivalua, Zip
no first choiceagainst: CoupaSAP Ariba
One alternativeGEP SMART
no first choiceagainst: Amazon Business, ProcurePort ProcureWare / eBid Systems, Workday Strategic Sourcing
DeepSeek V4 FlashCoupa
Four alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
CoupaHeld
Three alternativesIvalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
Coupa
Seven alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua, Jaggaer, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba, Workday Strategic Sourcing, Zycus
Coupa
Two alternativesOracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, Workday P2P/T&E
against: SAP Ariba
Coupa, Ivalua
Two alternativesGEP SMART, SAP Ariba
against: Coupa, SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass
Llama 4 MaverickSAP Ariba
Two alternativesGEP SMART, Stampli
SAP Ariba, ZipChangedCoupa, SAP Ariba
One alternativeGEP SMART
Ivalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba, Stamplino first choiceagainst: Amazon Business, Coupa, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle NetSuite
Qwen 3.7 FlashSAP Ariba
Four alternativesCoupa, GEP NEXXT, Ivalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
CoupaChanged
Three alternativesIvalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
against: Procurious
Coupa
Five alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba, Workday Strategic Sourcing
Coupa
Two alternativesIvalua, SAP Ariba
no first choiceagainst: SAP Concur, Workdayagainst: Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
Kimi K2Coupa
Two alternativesIvalua, SAP Ariba
Coupa, SAP AribaChanged
Two alternativesIvalua, Jaggaer
Coupa, SAP Ariba
Three alternativesIvalua, Jaggaer, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
Stampli
Three alternativesCoupa, Precoro, Procurify
against: SAP Ariba
Coupa, SAP Ariba
Four alternativesGEP SMART, Procurify, Tipalti, Zip
against: Coupa, Jaggaer, SAP Ariba
GLM 4.7 FlashXno first choiceSAP AribaChanged
Four alternativesCoupa, GEP SMART, Ivalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
SAP Ariba
Four alternativesCoupa, GEP SMART, Ivalua, Jaggaer
Coupa
Four alternativesGEP SMART, Ivalua, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
no first choiceagainst: Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle NetSuite, SAP Ariba, Workday P2P/T&E
MiniMax M2.5SAP Ariba
Five alternativesBasware, Coupa, GEP SMART, Jaggaer, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement
SAP AribaHeld
Two alternativesCoupa, Ivalua
SAP Ariba
Six alternativesCoupa, GEP SMART, Ivalua, Jaggaer, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, Zip
GEP SMART
One alternativeIvalua
against: Coupa, SAP Ariba
Coupa
Four alternativesBasware, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, Procurement, SAP Ariba
nothing 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 20:53no05 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:47yes59 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:56yes1053 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:58yes207 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 19:33yes3315 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:10yes1510 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:36yes1021 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:07yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:35yes517 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:25yes1021 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:40yes2195 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:45yes1435 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:23no05 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:58yes25 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:02yes1723 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:48yes206 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 20:05yes148 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:48yes54 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:45yes1013 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:36yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:10no027 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:11yes2026 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:53yes1367 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:39yes519 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:38yes98 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:23yes69 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:03yes1833 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:13yes2010 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 19:07yes2515 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:32yes1511 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:23yes1930 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:58yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:18yes517 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:59yes2032 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:42yes34100 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:02yes934 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:52yes148 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:58yes67 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:57yes2431 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:53yes176 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 19:04yes3519 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:25yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:02yes1724 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:53yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:56no027 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:09yes1030 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:05yes1541 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:41yes1744 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:58yes1811 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:20no09 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:31yes328 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:21yes2015 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 18:26yes1412 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:57no08 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:22yes2028 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:07yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:08no030 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:07yes2451 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:34yes2498 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:48yes523 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:59yes3613 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:52yes48 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 20:12yes1224 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:48yes206 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 20:18yes2316 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:05yes1511 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 20:19yes2571 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:37yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:49no034 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:42yes3050 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:20yes2760 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:48yes1024 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
GEP read as GEP SMART
Microsoft Dynamics read as Microsoft Dynamics 365
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
Workday Procurement read as Workday P2P/T&E
Unresolved, counted raw
ProcurePort ProcureWare / eBid Systems
Procurement (Tipalti)
Prodigy
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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