2 categories · RankedBonsai
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.
PandaDoc is first at 74%.
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Why models recommend it
“Lowest cost + all‑in‑one: Bonsai at $9/user/month (Essentials plan)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Bonsai and HoneyBook offer limited free plans with basic workflows, making them excellent starting points”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Choose Bonsai or Jotform if you are a freelancer or small agency needing simple quotes”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Bonsai targets freelancers who need to manage their entire business through one dashboard.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Bonsai, over the 39 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 25 | Compare → | |
| 27 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 27 | 0 | View → | |
| 26 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 3 | View → |
What the models named instead of Bonsai →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
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.
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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 38 of the 39 answers that named Bonsai and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
147 of the 147 domain citations in answers naming Bonsai 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |