2 categories · RankedKintsugi
Kintsugi is sales tax software that monitors, collects and files sales tax, built on AI according to its own positioning · trykintsugi.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Thin evidence at enterprise: five labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
TaxJar is first at 30%.
Avalara AvaTax is first at 36%.
Vertex is first at 55%.
Why models recommend it
“Safer Alternatives Worth Considering ... Kintsugi (4.8/5 rating, free tier available)”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“Specifically praised for bridging the gap between automation and human expertise”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · first choice
“Kintsugi (if free is essential)”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For teams specifically looking for budget-friendly sales tax software for small business, Kintsugi is worth a look”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Kintsugi, over the 52 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 35 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 26 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 17 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 16 | 5 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Kintsugi →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Kintsugi's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- For ecommerce, SaaS, and finance teams
- Price stated
- Flat-rate pricing, no lock-ins; Month-to-month, no per-transaction fees, implementation cost, or year-end overage.
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Get started for free
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II
- Hosting
- 100+ Countries
- Customers named
- Costco, &Collar, Kavuru Group Holdings LLC, JMXi, Plufl, EngagedMD, InspiredResults, Karma and Luck
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 52 of the 52 answers that named Kintsugi and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
230 of the 248 domain citations in answers naming Kintsugi 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 322 | 34 | 2026-09-29 | Sales tax automation, Accounting software | |
| Template or tool | 77 | 0 | 2026-05-06 | ||
| Case study | 68 | 23 | 2026-09-02 | Sales tax automation | |
| Comparison | 29 | 7 | 2026-09-26 | Sales tax automation | |
| Glossary or explainer | 18 | 2 | 2026-09-26 | Sales tax automation | |
| Report or ebook | 5 | 1 | 2026-09-29 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Sales tax due dates blog
- 2026-09-29Product categories report or ebook
- 2026-09-27State of sales tax 2026 blog
- 2026-09-26Page No Longer Available comparison
- 2026-09-26Avalara alternatives comparison
- 2026-09-26California saas sales tax blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page trykintsugi.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.