Business banking · RankedStarling Bank
Starling Bank is a business banking product from Starling · starlingbank.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%.
No model named it for this buyer.
Why models recommend it
“Starling Bank Business Account (modern app, no fees, instant notifications)”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For most companies with a limited budget, Starling Bank is the clear winner”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Overall best free digital banking | £0 | 100% customer recommendation rate”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · first choice
“Bluevine (US) or Starling/Monzo (UK) are among the best choices”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Tide, Monzo, or Starling have mixed feedback on international fees and phone support”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Starling Bank, over the 10 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Starling Bank's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Personal and business banking online and at your fingertips, always.
- Price stated
- No monthly fees.
- Free plan or trial
- No monthly fees.
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 10 of the 10 answers that named Starling Bank and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty of the thirty domain citations in answers naming Starling Bank 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 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 319 | undated | Business banking, Accounting software | ||
| News or press | 201 | undated | Business banking | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 14 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 9 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 4 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 2 | undated | |||
| Case study | 1 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page starlingbank.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.