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AI Brand Chart: Small-business accounting software, edition 2026-w42

5 AI models, 50 buying scenarios, edition 2026-w42, data as of October 16, 2026.

Brand names only: the models saw each option as a brand name, with no product facts, and answered from their own knowledge.

Fast panel: the fast or small current models of each vendor, not the full flagship panel.

beta: intervals not small-sample calibrated

Tiers, not strict ranks

How to read this

A position is only the order of the estimates, and arrows show how that order moved since the last edition: brands in one tier cannot be told apart from its leader at 95% confidence, and each rank is an interval. Rails show the conditional pick share (among answers that picked a brand) in shortlists of 4 (chance is 25%).

Changed beyond noise: for this brand alone, the 95% interval of its share change excludes 0. Lineup or panel changes between editions can cause it too, and it is never a rank claim.

Display order since the last edition, not strict ranks. Moves without a badge are within the margin.

  1. 1NewQuickBooksTier 1, rank 1New on the chart in this edition.82% (73%–89%)1 week
  2. 2NewXeroTier 2, rank 2 to 4New on the chart in this edition.55% (43%–66%)1 week
  3. 3NewFreshBooksTier 2, rank 2 to 5New on the chart in this edition.39% (27%–51%)1 week
  4. 4NewZoho BooksTier 2, rank 2 to 5New on the chart in this edition.36% (25%–48%)1 week
  5. 5NewSageTier 3, rank 3 to 10New on the chart in this edition.12% (6%–21%)1 week
  6. 6NewFreeAgentTier 3, rank 5 to 10New on the chart in this edition.9% (4%–16%)1 week
  7. 7NewWaveTier 3, rank 5 to 10New on the chart in this edition.7% (3%–12%)1 week
  8. 8NewPatriot SoftwareTier 3, rank 5 to 10New on the chart in this edition.6% (2%–14%)1 week
  9. 9NewZarMoneyTier 3, rank 5 to 10New on the chart in this edition.3% (1%–10%)1 week
  10. 10NewKashooTier 3, rank 5 to 10New on the chart in this edition.2% (0%–9%)1 week