Sales tax automation
Asked as “sales tax compliance software”, and as “sales tax calculation and filing tool”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 53 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
36%
Contested · TaxCloud 28%
36Avalara AvaTax28TaxCloud25Taxwire11others
36% of first choices, contested.
Since October 2026▲+4Since October 2026: 32% → 36%, +4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.Avalara AvaTax held the lead, +4 points on 32%, inside the 10-point floor.
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.
Small business
TaxJar30%Contested▼−3Since October 2026: 33% → 30%, −3 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.Standing →Mid-market
Avalara AvaTax36%Contested▲+4Since October 2026: 32% → 36%, +4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.This pageEnterprise
Vertex55%Clear leader▲+7Since October 2026: 48% → 55%, +7 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.Standing →
TaxJar30%Contested▼−3Since October 2026: 33% → 30%, −3 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.Standing →Mid-marketAvalara AvaTax36%Contested▲+4Since October 2026: 32% → 36%, +4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.This pageEnterpriseVertex55%Clear leader▲+7Since October 2026: 48% → 55%, +7 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.Standing →The standing
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. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01Avalara AvaTax36%24%62endorsed leader▲+4Since October 2026: 32% → 36%, +4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.32% → 36%
Avalara AvaTax36%24%62endorsed leader▲+4Since October 2026: 32% → 36%, +4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.32% → 36%02
TaxCloud28%9%47accepted challenger▲+9Since October 2026: 19% → 28%, +9 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.19% → 28%
TaxCloud28%9%47accepted challenger▲+9Since October 2026: 19% → 28%, +9 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.19% → 28%03
Taxwire25%0%18accepted challenger▲+12Since October 2026: 13% → 25%, +12 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement.13% → 25%
Taxwire25%0%18accepted challenger▲+12Since October 2026: 13% → 25%, +12 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement.13% → 25%04
Anrok4%7%27accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 6% → 4%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.6% → 4%
Anrok4%7%27accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 6% → 4%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.6% → 4%05TaxJar2%24%59accepted challenger▼−9Since October 2026: 11% → 2%, −9 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.11% → 2%
TaxJar2%24%59accepted challenger▼−9Since October 2026: 11% → 2%, −9 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.11% → 2%06
Kintsugi2%0%14accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.2% → 2%
Kintsugi2%0%14accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.2% → 2%07
Numeral2%12%17accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.2% → 2%
Numeral2%12%17accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.2% → 2%Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
08Vertex0%25%48criticized challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.4% → 0%
Vertex0%25%48criticized challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.4% → 0%10
Stripe Tax0%22%23accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Stripe Tax0%22%23accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%09Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud0%15%26accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
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Zamp0%8%12accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%
Zamp0%8%12accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise.2% → 0%The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one can't be told apart from repeat variation, and both are shown. Each index measures its own floor from its own repeat, over its own categories, so the floor differs from one index to the next. Both editions asked the same fourteen models. How the floor is measured
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.
For buyers
All twenty-one head-to-head pages: the top seven products, each against each
Avalara AvaTax vs TaxJarAvalara AvaTax vs KintsugiAvalara AvaTax vs NumeralTaxCloud vs TaxwireTaxCloud vs AnrokTaxCloud vs TaxJarTaxCloud vs KintsugiTaxCloud vs NumeralTaxwire vs AnrokTaxwire vs TaxJarTaxwire vs KintsugiTaxwire vs NumeralAnrok vs TaxJarAnrok vs KintsugiAnrok vs NumeralTaxJar vs KintsugiTaxJar vs NumeralKintsugi vs Numeral
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 →
0102030405060708S09
1011Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%
Key
01Avalara AvaTax36%
Avalara AvaTax36%02TaxCloud28%
TaxCloud28%03Taxwire25%
Taxwire25%04Anrok4%
Anrok4%05TaxJar2%
TaxJar2%06Kintsugi2%
Kintsugi2%07Numeral2%
Numeral2%08Vertex0%
Vertex0%09Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud0%
10Stripe Tax0%
Stripe Tax0%11Zamp0%
Zamp0%What they warned about
Three of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-6 Luna and Muse Glimmer 30B 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.
Avalara AvaTax24%
15 of 62 labels negative · 11 of 14 models · 3 hard negative
“The tools with the most documented user complaints recently are QuickBooks Online (calculation errors) and Avalara (service/accuracy issues).” Kimi K2, negative prompt
TaxJar24%
14 of 59 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 4 hard negative
“Common issues: Poor customer support ... failure to properly handle exempt customers ... inaccurate calculations or reports that require manual cross-checks” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
Vertex25%
12 of 48 labels negative · 7 of 14 models
“Enterprise Legacy Tools (e.g., Vertex, Sovos, CCH SureTax) ... Who should avoid them: Companies under $50M–$100M ARR” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud
15%
4 of 26 labels negative · 4 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Reason to Avoid/Caution: Users report that their support is "non-existent" or extremely slow when fixing errors.” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
What they cite
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted.
Sites the answers cite
75 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 796 links across 127 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 14 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.
vendor site · TaxCloud55 answers · 85 citations · 13 models
vendor site · Taxwire29 answers · 46 citations · 11 models
28 answers · 32 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Sourceforge28 answers · 31 citations · 11 models
vendor site · TaxJar26 answers · 36 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Zamp25 answers · 44 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Avalara24 answers · 48 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Numeral23 answers · 24 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Capterra20 answers · 27 citations · 10 models
vendor site · G219 answers · 34 citations · 9 models
19 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
13 answers · 23 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.
40 answers · 11 models
26 answers · 11 models
22 answers · 10 models
21 answers · 9 models
19 answers · 8 models
14 answers · 9 models
14 answers · 8 models
13 answers · 6 models
12 answers · 9 models
10 answers · 7 models
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 sales tax compliance software”, “sales tax compliance software”, “sales tax tools”. 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 products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalara avalara.com Avalara AvaTax 36%, Avalara Select 0% | 36% | 172 | 27,100 | 703 | 2,604,517 company | $21,470 | 108 | 1 |
| TaxCloud taxcloud.com | 28% | 103 | 1,000 | 24 | 229,957 | 44 | 8 | |
| Taxwire taxwire.com | 25% | 38 | 480 | 3 | 32,545 | 0 | ||
| Anrok anrok.com | 4% | 78 | 3,600 | 43 | 12,295 | $1,852 | 85 | 5 |
| TaxJar taxjar.com | 2% | 160 | 6,600 | 63 | 181,783 | $119 | 55 | 2 |
| Kintsugi trykintsugi.com | 2% | 52 | 90,500 | 3,219 | 38,197 | $1,359 | 63 | |
| Numeral numeral.com | 2% | 46 | 14,800 | 38,006 | 66,125 | $26 | 120 | |
| Vertex Cloud | 2% | |||||||
| Vertex vertexinc.com | 0% | 190 | 110,000 | 13,807 | 32,080 | $3,975 | 69 | 6 |
| Sovos sovos.com Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud 0% | 0% | 77 | 3,600 | 220 | 95,951 company | 93 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 15 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (avalara.com, reddit.com, taxcloud.com, taxjar.com). The first result for “best sales tax compliance software” is avalara.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.ShowHide
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.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best sales tax compliance software for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which sales tax calculation and filing tool would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top sales tax tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best sales tax compliance software for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a sales tax compliance software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which sales tax tools should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Taxwireagainst: TaxJarno first choiceChangedQuadernoTaxCloudno first choiceagainst: Avalara AvaTax, Numeral, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, TaxCloud, TaxJar, Vertex
Three alternatives
Anrok, Avalara AvaTax, NumeralFive alternatives
Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, Stripe Tax, TaxJar, Vertex, ZampTwo alternatives
Kintsugi, Stripe TaxGPT-5.4 miniAvalara AvaTaxAvalara AvaTaxHeldAvalara AvaTaxTaxJarno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Anrok, TaxJar, VertexTwo alternatives
Anrok, TaxJarFour alternatives
Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, Stripe Tax, TaxJar, VertexTwo alternatives
Avalara Select, TaxCloudGemini 3.5 FlashAvalara AvaTaxAnrok, Avalara AvaTaxChangedAnrokTaxCloudagainst: Avalara AvaTax, VertexAvalara AvaTaxagainst: Avalara AvaTax, CCH SureTax, Shopify Tax, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, Stripe Tax, TaxJar, Vertex, WooCommerce default tax settings
Five alternatives
Anrok, Galvix, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, TaxConnex, VertexOne alternative
Vertex SMB / Vertex O SeriesFive alternatives
Avalara AvaTax, Stripe Tax, TaxCloud, TaxJar, VertexFour alternatives
Quaderno, Shopify Tax, Stripe Tax, TaxJarThree alternatives
Anrok, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, VertexPerplexity SonarTaxwireTaxwireHeldno first choiceagainst: QuickBooks, Xero, or Zoho Books tax featuresTaxCloudagainst: TaxJarno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Avalara AvaTax, Vertex, ZampOne alternative
Avalara AvaTaxNine alternatives
Anrok, Avalara AvaTax, Numeral, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, Stripe Tax, TaxCloud, TaxJar, Vertex, ZampTwo alternatives
Kintsugi, Shopify TaxGrok 4.20Taxwireagainst: Avalara AvaTax, VertexAvalara AvaTaxChangedagainst: VertexAvalara AvaTax, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, TaxCloud, TaxJaragainst: Shopify TaxTaxCloudagainst: Avalara AvaTax, VertexAvalara AvaTaxagainst: Anrok, Avalara AvaTax, TaxJar
Two alternatives
Anrok, NumeralFour alternatives
Anrok, Kintsugi, TaxJar, TaxwireTwo alternatives
Stripe Tax, VertexThree alternatives
Kintsugi, TaxJar, ZampFive alternatives
Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, TaxCloud, TaxJar, Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE, VertexMistral SmallAvalara AvaTaxTaxwireChangedno first choiceTaxCloudno first choiceagainst: Avalara AvaTax, DAVO, QuickBooks Automated Sales Tax, Shopify Tax, TaxCloud
Four alternatives
Anrok, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, TaxCloud, VertexTwo alternatives
Kintsugi, TaxCloudTwo alternatives
Numeral, TaxJarDeepSeek V4 FlashAvalara AvaTaxTaxwireChangedagainst: Stripe Tax, TaxJarAvalara AvaTax, TaxJarTaxCloudagainst: TaxJar, Zoho BooksAvalara AvaTaxagainst: Stripe Tax, Vertexagainst: Avalara AvaTax, TaxCloud, TaxJar
Three alternatives
TaxCloud, Taxwire, ZampTwo alternatives
Avalara AvaTax, TaxCloudFour alternatives
Anrok, TaxCloud, Vertex, Zoho BooksOne alternative
KintsugiTwo alternatives
Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, TaxJarLlama 4 MaverickTaxwireTaxwireHeldAvalara AvaTaxNumeralno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Avalara AvaTax, TaxCloud, TaxJarFour alternatives
Anrok, TaxJar, Vertex, Zoho BooksTwo alternatives
TaxCloud, TaxJarQwen 3.7 FlashTaxwireagainst: TaxJarAvalara AvaTax, TaxwireChangedagainst: Vertexno first choiceTaxCloudagainst: Avalara AvaTax, Google Spreadsheets, Vertexno first choiceagainst: Avalara AvaTax, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, TaxJar
Two alternatives
Avalara AvaTax, VertexThree alternatives
Kintsugi, Numeral, Stripe TaxFive alternatives
Avalara AvaTax, Simpler Taxes, TaxCloud, TaxJar, VertexTwo alternatives
G&A Partners, TaxJarKimi K2Anrok, Avalara AvaTaxagainst: VertexAvalara AvaTaxChangedAvalara AvaTaxTaxCloudno first choiceagainst: Avalara AvaTax, Lappa, Numeral, QuickBooks Online Sales Tax, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, Stripe Tax, TaxJar, Vertex
One alternative
TaxCloudOne alternative
TaxCloudFive alternatives
Anrok, Stripe Tax, TaxJar, Vertex, ZampThree alternatives
DAVO, TaxJar, Zoho BooksGLM 4.7 FlashXAvalara AvaTaxTaxwireChangedAvalara AvaTaxTaxCloudAvalara AvaTax, TaxCloud, Taxwireagainst: Avalara AvaTax, Shopify Tax
Three alternatives
TaxCloud, TaxJar, TaxwireTwo alternatives
Avalara AvaTax, TaxCloudNine alternatives
Anrok, Kintsugi, Lovat, Quaderno, Sphere, Stripe Tax, TaxCloud, TaxJar, VertexSix alternatives
Avalara AvaTax, Kintsugi, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, Stripe Tax, TaxJar, Xero TaxMiniMax M2.5Avalara AvaTax, TaxCloudTaxCloudChangedagainst: Avalara AvaTax, VertexAvalara AvaTax, VertexKintsugi, TaxCloudno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Anrok, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, VertexOne alternative
TaxJarFive alternatives
Anrok, Stripe Tax, TaxCloud, TaxJar, ZampFour alternatives
Numeral, Shopify Tax, Stripe Tax, TaxJarGPT-6 LunaAvalara AvaTax, Vertex Cloudagainst: TaxJarAvalara AvaTaxChangedno first choiceTaxCloudno first choiceagainst: Avalara AvaTax, Basic POS/e-commerce tax settings or spreadsheets, Stripe Tax, TaxJar
One alternative
Sovos Intelligent Compliance CloudTwo alternatives
TaxJar, VertexSeven alternatives
Avalara AvaTax, Shopify Tax, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, Stripe Tax, TaxCloud, TaxJar, VertexOne alternative
TaxJarMuse Glimmer 30BAvalara AvaTaxTaxwireChangedTaxJarTaxCloudno first choiceagainst: Anrok, Avalara AvaTax, TaxCloud, TaxJar, Zamp
Four alternatives
Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, TaxCloud, Taxwire, VertexThree alternatives
Avalara AvaTax, TaxJar, VertexSeven alternatives
Avalara AvaTax, Numeral, Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud, Stripe Tax, TaxCloud, Vertex, ZampTwo alternatives
Numeral, TaxJarBold 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.
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 10:40 | yes | 10 | 8 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 10:12 | yes | 2 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 11:47 | yes | 15 | 26 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 10:19 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:28 | yes | 10 | 28 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:45 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 09:34 | yes | 22 | 31 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 11:13 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 09:58 | yes | 5 | 31 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 10:45 | yes | 25 | 92 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 10:08 | yes | 14 | 53 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:34 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 10:19 | yes | 4 | 13 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 11:36 | yes | 19 | 26 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 12:22 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 11:58 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 12:44 | yes | 13 | 27 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 12:01 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:07 | yes | 9 | 28 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 10:24 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 08:43 | yes | 21 | 21 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:08 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:47 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 09:36 | yes | 14 | 30 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 08:58 | yes | 12 | 21 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:24 | yes | 10 | 36 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 11:26 | yes | 4 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 09:56 | yes | 10 | 16 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 10:43 | yes | 9 | 9 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 12:12 | yes | 5 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 10:06 | yes | 9 | 23 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 09:06 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:10 | yes | 5 | 36 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 10:02 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 12:02 | yes | 24 | 33 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:09 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:17 | no | 0 | 28 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 11:51 | yes | 15 | 37 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 10:32 | yes | 15 | 81 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:29 | yes | 9 | 32 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 10:25 | yes | 9 | 22 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 10:09 | yes | 14 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 12:40 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 10:09 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 12:23 | yes | 9 | 21 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 08:57 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:23 | yes | 10 | 31 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:40 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 10:15 | yes | 25 | 25 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:17 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 11:11 | no | 0 | 29 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 11:49 | yes | 16 | 37 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 11:50 | yes | 14 | 18 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:00 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 12:57 | yes | 3 | 16 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 09:22 | yes | 14 | 19 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 11:12 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 10:54 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 12:25 | no | 0 | 14 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 10:39 | yes | 10 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:29 | yes | 5 | 28 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 10:55 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 11:29 | yes | 22 | 33 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 12:10 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:08 | no | 0 | 28 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 12:20 | yes | 16 | 30 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 12:46 | yes | 15 | 19 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 09:52 | no | 0 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 10:20 | yes | 2 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 09:19 | yes | 14 | 25 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 11:47 | yes | 18 | 9 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 12:58 | yes | 6 | 7 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 09:57 | yes | 11 | 28 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 12:45 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:10 | yes | 5 | 30 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:57 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 09:50 | yes | 25 | 24 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 10:56 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 12:25 | yes | 5 | 25 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 12:21 | yes | 20 | 61 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 10:08 | yes | 24 | 116 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:57 | yes | 18 | 65 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 10:59 | yes | 3 | 14 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 12:45 | yes | 15 | 22 s |
Normalization in this category
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Avalara read as Avalara AvaTax
Avalara (AvaTax + CertCapture) read as Avalara AvaTax
Avalara (AvaTax) read as Avalara AvaTax
QuickBooks read as QuickBooks Automated Sales Tax
QuickBooks (built-in tax features) read as QuickBooks Automated Sales Tax
Shopify read as Shopify Tax
Sovos read as Sovos Intelligent Compliance Cloud
Thomson Reuters read as Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE
Vertex O Series read as Vertex
Unresolved, counted raw
Basic POS/e-commerce tax settings or spreadsheets
G&A Partners
Google Spreadsheets
OneSource Determination
QuickBooks Online Sales Tax
QuickBooks, Xero, or Zoho Books tax features
SAP Document and Reporting Compliance
Simpler Taxes
State Direct Filing
Taxdoo
Thomson Reuters EasyLink
VATCalc
Vertex Cloud
Vertex SMB / Vertex O Series
WooCommerce default tax settings
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.