2 categories · RankedPilot
Pilot provides bookkeeping and accounting services for startups and small businesses · pilot.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“Zeni or Pilot (if you want AI software bundled with a fractional accounting team)”Kimi K2 · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“should use Pilot ($99-$499/month) or Puzzle instead of Bench”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Pilot, over the 25 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 4 | View → | |
| 16 | 3 | View → | |
| 14 | 5 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Pilot's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- startups and small businesses
- Price stated
- Essentials $99/month; Core starts at $299/month billed annually; Bookkeeping custom; For Single Member LLCs starts at $1,000+ /year billed annually; For Partnerships and S-Corps starts at $2,000+ /year billed annually; For C-Corps starts at $2,450+ /year billed annually; CFO Basic starts at $1,750/month billed annually; CFO Essentials starts at $3,150/month billed annually; CFO Custom starts at $5,250/month billed annually; COO Starter starts at $750 one-time payment; COO Essentials starts at $850/month; Stock Administration $399/hr; R&D Tax Credit 20%
- Starting price
- 99/month
- Free plan or trial
- start FREE TRIAL
- Integrations
- 10000
- Customers named
- Iba, Facktor Healthcare, Commons Clinic, OptimalAI, Passage AI
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 24 of the 25 answers that named Pilot and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy of the seventy domain citations in answers naming Pilot 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 462 | 79 | 2026-09-28 | Cap table management, Accounting software | |
| Glossary or explainer | 435 | 4 | 2026-08-03 | Revenue recognition, Accounting software | |
| Comparison | 91 | 25 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 83 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 50 | 4 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Case study | 33 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 32 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 30 | 3 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Podcast or video | 5 | 0 | 2025-12-04 | ||
| News or press | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Collective alternatives comparison
- 2026-09-28Multi unit franchise bookkeeping report or ebook
- 2026-09-28Startup guide to california franchise tax blog
- 2026-09-26Franchise bookkeeping cost report or ebook
- 2026-09-26Franchise chart of accounts blog
- 2026-09-25How to file your delaware franchise tax on time blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page pilot.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.