Accounting software · Named, not rankedBench Accounting
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Bench Accounting has 5.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“The shutdown of Bench illustrated risks involving data access, migration, integrations, and independent backups.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“use Pilot ($99-$499/month) or Puzzle instead of Bench, which shut down in December 2024.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“The platform abruptly shut down in December 2024 with almost no warning”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Bench (shut down due to incorrect categorization of transactions)”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Bench Accounting, over the 7 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
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A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Bench Accounting's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- thousands of businesses
- Price stated
- For S-Corps, C-Corps, and Partnerships, you can add-on personal filing for one partner or shareholder for just $59/mo when billed annually or $69/mo when billed monthly.
- Starting price
- 59
- Free plan or trial
- Try us for free—we’ll do one month of your bookkeeping and prepare a set of financial statements for you to keep
- Certifications
- SOC 2
- Hosting
- North American HQ
- Customers named
- TRAINUAL, THE VILLAGES GYM
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 7 of the 7 answers that named Bench Accounting and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Twenty-four of the twenty-four domain citations in answers naming Bench Accounting 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |