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Business bill pay

Asked as “bill pay platform for businesses”, and as “vendor payments software”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 43 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
35%
Contested · Melio 26%
35BILL26Melio09HighRadius30others

35% of first choices, contested.

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
01BILL35%27%51criticized default
02Melio26%11%27accepted challenger
03Ramp7%3%30accepted challenger
04Tipalti7%4%26accepted challenger
05Stampli5%0%16accepted challenger
06AvidXchange2%0%25accepted challenger
07Bank Bill Pay2%6%17accepted challenger
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
11Doxo0%47%19criticized challenger
10Prism0%36%11criticized challenger
09Papaya0%30%10criticized challenger
08Quicken Bill Manager0%10%10accepted 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-one head-to-head pages: the top seven 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
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%
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01BILL35%
02Melio26%
03Ramp7%
04Tipalti7%
05Stampli5%
06AvidXchange2%
07Bank Bill Pay2%
08Quicken Bill Manager0%
09Papaya0%
10Prism0%
11Doxo0%

What they warned about

Four of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, 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.
Doxo
47%
9 of 19 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 9 hard negative
“Doxo: This online bill payment firm will pay $2.1 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it used misleading search ads to impersonate consumers' billers” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
BILL
27%
14 of 51 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“BBB rating 1.09/5 (108+ reviews), 188 complaints in 3 years. Common issues: payment delays/holds, poor customer support, unauthorized charges” Grok 4.20, negative prompt
Prism
36%
4 of 11 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“claiming to be "Prism Bill Pay" or offering legacy versions, avoid them completely” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Zelle
100%
3 of 3 labels negative · 3 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“P2P apps like PayPal/Zelle aren't true bill pay (better for people-to-people).” Grok 4.20, comparative 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. 871 links across 256 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Rippling22 answers · 25 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Ramp18 answers · 28 citations · 9 models
vendor site · BILL17 answers · 24 citations · 8 models
17 answers · 21 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Rillion16 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Worldmetrics15 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
15 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
15 answers · 15 citations · 11 models
15 answers · 15 citations · 11 models
13 answers · 15 citations · 8 models
vendor site · HighRadius12 answers · 16 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Accounting Seed12 answers · 12 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 bill pay platform for businesses”, “bill pay platform for businesses”, “bill pay 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
BILL bill.com35%3742,740,0001,063,0011,783,039$199,2311191
Melio melio.com26%28133,10049236,039$1,429603
HighRadius highradius.com9%6046,600118294,561$2,272120
Ramp ramp.com7%916246,00049,733770,056$13,511120
Tipalti tipalti.com7%49018,100381213,652$83,363120
Stampli stampli.com5%19418,1006826,332$3953
AvidXchange avidxchange.com2%14727,10039851,937$788272
Bank Bill Pay2%1,3003,091
Rillion rillion.com2%214801035,512$57614
QuickBooks parent site
QuickBooks Bill Pay 2%
2%651,000,00054,681

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 20 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (accountingseed.com, bill.com, founderscpa.com, rippling.com). The first result for “best bill pay platform for businesses” is efficient.app.

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 bill pay platform for businesses for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which vendor payments software would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top bill pay platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best bill pay platform for businesses for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a bill pay platform for businesses. What should we look at?”Negative“Which bill pay platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5MineralTree
Four alternativesBILL, EBizCharge, Rillion, Versapay
BILLChanged
Three alternativesAvidXchange, Stampli, Tipalti
BILL
Six alternativesBilltrust, Doxo, Forwardly, HighRadius, Melio, Versapay
Bank Bill Pay
One alternativeQuicken Bill Manager
against: BILL
no first choiceagainst: BILL, Doxo
GPT-5.4 miniTipalti
Two alternativesBILL, Ramp
BILLChanged
Two alternativesAvidXchange, Tipalti
BILL
Two alternativesMelio, Ramp
Melio, QuickBooks Bill Pay
One alternativeBILL
against: Ramp
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashStampli
Four alternativesAirbase, AvidXchange, Ramp, Tipalti
against: BILL, QuickBooks Online
StampliHeld
Three alternativesAirbase, Ramp, Tipalti
against: QuickBooks Bill Pay, SAP Ariba
BILL
Two alternativesMelio, Veem
against: QuickBooks Bill Pay
Melio
Four alternativesMercury, QuickBooks Bill Pay, Ramp, Rho
against: BILL
Tipalti
Five alternativesAvidXchange, Brex Bill Pay, MineralTree, Ramp, Stampli
against: Doxo, Papaya, Prism
Perplexity SonarBILL
Four alternativesAvidXchange, Ramp, Stampli, Tipalti
BILLHeld
Four alternativesCoupa Pay, Plooto, Rillion, Veem
no first choiceMelio
Two alternativesBank Bill Pay, Ramp
against: BILL
no first choiceagainst: Doxo
Grok 4.20BILL
Four alternativesAvidXchange, Ramp, Stampli, Tipalti
against: Melio
BILLHeld
Four alternativesAvidXchange, Ramp, Stampli, Tipalti
Bank Bill Pay
Three alternativesDoxo, Papaya, Quicken Simplifi
against: PayPal Bill Pay, Prism, Zelle
Melio
Two alternativesQuickBooks Bill Pay, Ramp
against: BILL
BILL, Ramp
One alternativeCoupa Pay
against: BILL, Doxo, Fiserv, Papaya
Mistral SmallBILL
Two alternativesAvidXchange, Finexio
HighRadiusChanged
Two alternativesPlooto, Rillion
no first choiceMelio
One alternativeBank Bill Pay
no first choicenothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashTipalti
Four alternativesAvidXchange, BILL, Ramp, Stampli
BILLChanged
Three alternativesAvidXchange, Stampli, Tipalti
Melio
Two alternativesAvidXchange, BILL
Melio
Two alternativesBank Bill Pay, QuickBooks Bill Pay
against: BILL
no first choiceagainst: BILL, Cash App, Doxo, PayPal Bill Pay, Prism, Venmo, Zelle
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceHighRadius, RillionChangedno first choiceMelio
Three alternativesBank Bill Pay, Expensify, Rippling Spend
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashBILL
Three alternativesAvidXchange, Ramp, Tipalti
HighRadiusChanged
Three alternativesAvidXchange, BILL, Tipalti
BILL
Three alternativesMelio, Ramp, Rippling Spend
Melio
One alternativeBank Bill Pay
against: BILL, Tipalti
no first choiceagainst: Doxo, MoneyGram, Prism, Quicken Bill Manager, Rocket Money, SilverBills
Kimi K2BILL
Four alternativesAvidXchange, Melio, Rillion, Stampli
BILLHeld
Four alternativesAvidXchange, Ramp, Stampli, Tipalti
Melio
Four alternativesAvidXchange, BILL, Doxo, Ramp
Melio
Three alternativesBank Bill Pay, QuickBooks Bill Pay, Ramp
against: BILL
no first choiceagainst: BILL, Melioagainst: BILL, Cash App, Dave App, Doxo, Melio, Plastiq, Venmo, Willow Pays, Zelle
GLM 4.7 FlashXBILL, Ramp
Three alternativesAvidXchange, Stampli, Tipalti
BILLChanged
Two alternativesAvidXchange, Tipalti
Melio
Five alternativesAirbase, AvidXchange, BILL, Ramp, Tipalti
against: Bank Bill Pay
Melio, Ramp
Two alternativesQuickBooks Bill Pay, Wave
no first choiceagainst: BILL, CheQ, Doxo, Papaya
MiniMax M2.5AvidXchange, BILL
Two alternativesStampli, Tipalti
HighRadiusChanged
One alternativePlooto
Doxo
Six alternativesBrex Bill Pay, Expensify, Prism, Quicken Bill Manager, Ramp, Rippling Spend
Melio
Two alternativesBank Bill Pay, Ramp
no first choiceagainst: Doxo
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 21:08yes98 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:05yes36 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:08yes2427 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:57yes205 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 19:16yes4017 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:42yes139 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:28yes1927 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:55yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:06yes515 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:39yes1531 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:36yes1446 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:24yes514 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:53yes108 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:32no05 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:42yes2424 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:17yes205 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 19:08yes3117 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:16yes54 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:01yes1922 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:11yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:05yes750 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:15yes1019 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:12no024 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:10yes510 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:36yes97 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:15yes58 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:19yes858 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:02yes2016 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 19:51yes1615 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:56yes56 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:00yes1520 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:59yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:18yes525 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:11yes722 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:48yes585 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:22yes729 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:54yes97 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:22yes25 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:49yes2322 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:06yes204 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 19:38yes3716 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:21yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:25yes810 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:28yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:58yes515 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:08yes819 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:21yes1529 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:17yes1037 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:20no07 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:31no04 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 20:15yes920 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:49yes1812 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 20:24yes1411 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:16no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:05yes2022 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:55yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:53no024 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:04yes1473 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:40yes25104 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:32no010 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:00yes2614 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:29no03 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:56yes1820 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:53yes207 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 19:06yes4117 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:02yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:07yes2625 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:54yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:29yes1529 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:48yes2936 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:34yes1427 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:00yes514 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
BILL.com read as BILL
Bill.com read as BILL
Bill.com (BILL) read as BILL
Brex read as Brex Bill Pay
Coupa read as Coupa Pay
Divvy read as BILL Spend & Expense
PayPal read as PayPal Bill Pay
Quicken read as Quicken Bill Manager
Quicken (Bill Manager) read as Quicken Bill Manager
Ramp Bill Pay read as Ramp
Rippling read as Rippling Spend
Xero read as Xero Bills
Unresolved, counted raw
Anthroway
CheQ
Dave App
Everyday Money Management
Finexio
Mint Bills
Origin
TimelyBills / Prism
Your Bank\u2019s Mobile App
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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