Business banking · RankedAmerican Express Business Checking
American Express Business Checking is a business checking account from American Express · americanexpress.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Mercury is first at 41%.
Mercury is first at 17%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Brex is first at 27%.
Why models recommend it
“The best business bank account for a company with a limited budget is Amex Business Checking”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“good for those looking to get a simple low-cost business checking account and do most of their business online”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Choose American Express for straightforward online checking plus customer support and interest.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“pairing it with American Express Business Checking for interest earnings on reserves”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
“American Express: It has received two enforcement orders in October 2026.”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as American Express Business Checking, over the 32 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 21 | 4 | View → | |
| 18 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 14 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 14 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 2 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of American Express Business Checking →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on American Express Business Checking's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- eligible U.S. businesses
- Price stated
- There are no monthly minimum balance requirements and no monthly maintenance fees for Amex® Business Checking.
- Customers named
- Gilliam Writers Group
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
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. These counts come from 31 of the 32 answers that named American Express Business Checking and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
100 of the 100 domain citations in answers naming American Express Business Checking came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |