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September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 · The permanent record of that edition, superseded since. The current standing is on the category page →
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Financial close management

Asked as “financial close management software”, and as “month-end close software”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 55 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
55%
Clear leader
55FloQast15Numeric07Easy Month End24others

55% of first choices, clear leader.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01FloQast55%19%57endorsed leader
02Numeric15%7%44accepted challenger
03Prophix4%0%17accepted challenger
04Trintech2%14%14accepted challenger
05Workiva2%33%30criticized challenger
06BlackLine2%48%56criticized challenger
Show the two products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
08OneStream0%25%16criticized challenger
07Trintech Adra0%5%19accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All ten head-to-head pages: the top five products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative70%
Key
01FloQast55%
02Numeric15%
03Prophix4%
04Trintech2%
05Workiva2%
06BlackLine2%
07Trintech Adra0%
08OneStream0%

What they warned about

Eight of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick and Qwen 3.7 Flash changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
BlackLine
48%
27 of 56 labels negative · 11 of 12 models · 6 hard negative
“Frequently flagged (56% negative labels across models). Common issues include long, difficult implementations, integration challenges, complex/clunky interfaces” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
Workiva
33%
10 of 30 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Often criticized as overly complex and expensive for non-enterprise or mid-market needs; ... avoid if scalability or cost is a concern.” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
FloQast
19%
11 of 57 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“**Avoid Enterprise Tools**: BlackLine/FloQast/Workiva are powerful ... overkill for limited budgets” Grok 4.1 Fast, budget prompt
OneStream
25%
4 of 16 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid These If Budget-Constrained ... custom-priced enterprise solutions, generally out of reach” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt

What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

77 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1041 links across 251 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Numeric45 answers · 81 citations · 13 models
vendor site · Bluecopa42 answers · 53 citations · 12 models
vendor site · G241 answers · 43 citations · 13 models
vendor site · G238 answers · 55 citations · 14 models
vendor site · Guideflow31 answers · 31 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Datarails26 answers · 36 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Maxima26 answers · 29 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Prophix23 answers · 24 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Tabs19 answers · 20 citations · 8 models
16 answers · 20 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Worldmetrics16 answers · 20 citations · 8 models
vendor site · HighRadius15 answers · 22 citations · 9 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best financial close management software”, “close management tools”, “financial close management software”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
FloQast floqast.com55%3779,90019441,324$5,03976
Numeric numeric.io15%21812,10038,00694,254$42693
Easy Month End easymonthend.com7%15100776
Prophix prophix.com4%2371,6004114,138$109103
Xenett xenett.com4%7
Financial Cents financial-cents.com4%165,4005417,97419
Trintech trintech.com
Trintech 2%, Trintech Adra 0%, Adra Balancer 0%
2%1011,9004430,37013
Planful planful.com2%3413,600685,72658,997$137120
Double doublehq.com2%24135,000350,3135,86011
Workiva workiva.com2%59622,20052458,186$23644

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 15 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (g2.com, highradius.com, numeric.io). The first result for “best financial close management software” is bcsprosoft.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best financial close management software for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which month-end close software would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top close management tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best financial close management software for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a financial close management software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which close management tools should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5FloQast
Two alternativesNumeric, Trintech Adra
FloQastHeld
Four alternativesDOKKA Close, HighRadius, Numeric, Trintech
no first choiceNumeric's Essentials package
Three alternativesDatarails, Planful, Slash
against: Cube
no first choicenothing named
GPT-5.4 miniFloQast
Four alternativesBlackLine, Trintech, Trintech Adra, Workiva
FloQastHeld
One alternativeBlackLine
no first choiceClosing Folders, FloQast
One alternativeLiveFlow
against: BlackLine, CCH Tagetik
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashFloQast
Two alternativesNumeric, Trintech Adra
against: BlackLine
FloQastHeld
Two alternativesNumeric, Trintech Adra
against: BlackLine, Workiva
BlackLine, FloQast, Numeric
Five alternativesCCH Tagetik, HighRadius, OneStream, Trintech, Workiva
Easy Month End
Four alternativesCloseCore, Numeric, SkyStem ART, Trintech Adra
against: BlackLine, FloQast
FloQast
Two alternativesNumeric, Trintech Adra
against: BlackLine
against: Asana, BlackLine, FloQast, Jira, Monday.com, Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, Oracle NetSuite, SAP, Sage Intacct, Trello, Trintech Cadency
Perplexity SonarFloQast
Two alternativesBlackLine, Prophix
FloQastHeld
Three alternativesBlackLine, Datarails, HighRadius
no first choiceNumeric
One alternativePlanful
against: Cube, Financial Cents
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.1 FastFloQast
Four alternativesCube, Numeric, Prophix, Trintech Adra
against: BlackLine
FloQastHeld
Four alternativesBlackLine, Numeric, Trintech Adra, Workiva
BlackLine
Three alternativesOneStream, Prophix, Trintech Adra
Numeric
Two alternativesFinancial Cents, Finlens
against: BlackLine, FloQast, Workiva
FloQast
Three alternativesNumeric, OneStream, Planful
against: BlackLine
against: BlackLine, FloQast, Numeric, OneStream, SAP, Workiva
Mistral SmallProphix
Three alternativesBluecopa, FloQast, Workiva
BlackLine, FloQastChangedno first choiceEasy Month End
One alternativeDouble
no first choiceagainst: BlackLine, FloQast, Numeric, OneStream, Trintech, Workiva
DeepSeek V4 FlashFloQast
Three alternativesNumeric, Planful, Trintech Adra
against: BlackLine
NumericChanged
Two alternativesFloQast, Trintech Adra
against: BlackLine
FloQast
Five alternativesBlackLine, CCH Tagetik, OneStream, Trintech, Workiva
Numeric
Two alternativesEasy Month End, Xenett
against: BlackLine, FloQast, OneStream, Trintech Adra, Workiva
FloQast, Prophix
Three alternativesNumeric, Trintech, Workiva
against: BlackLine
against: BlackLine, DocuSign, FloQast, HelloSign / Dropbox Sign, Qualia, Workiva
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceFloQastChanged
Two alternativesBlackLine, Datarails
no first choiceno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashFloQast, Workiva
Five alternativesBlackLine, Numeric, OneStream, Prophix, Trintech Adra
FloQastChanged
One alternativeDatarails
against: BlackLine
no first choiceEasy Month End
Three alternativesPuzzle IO, QuickBooks Online, Xero
against: Excel/Google Sheets
Trintech
Three alternativesClose.com, Kira Systems, Planful
against: BlackLine
nothing named
Kimi K2FloQast
Two alternativesNumeric, Trintech Adra
against: BlackLine
FloQastHeld
Three alternativesBlackLine, Datarails, Numeric
Numeric
Five alternativesBlackLine, FloQast, OneStream, Oracle Financial Consolidation and Close, Workiva
Numeric
Two alternativesXero, Zoho Books
against: Wave
FloQast, Numeric
One alternativeProphix
against: BlackLine
against: BlackLine, Close, FloQast, Planful, Workiva
GLM 4.7 FlashXFloQast
Three alternativesNumeric, Prophix, Workiva
against: BlackLine
FloQastHeld
Three alternativesBlackLine, Numeric, Trintech Adra
no first choiceDouble, Easy Month End, Financial Cents, Xenett
Five alternativesAdra Balancer, GnuCash, LiveFlow, MODLR, Numeric
against: FloQast, Trintech Cadency
no first choicenothing named
MiniMax M2.5FloQast
Three alternativesCube, Prophix, Workiva
against: HighRadius, Numeric
FloQastHeld
Two alternativesAdra Balancer, SkyStem ART
against: QuickBooks Online, Xero
no first choiceFinancial Cents, Xenett
Three alternativesDouble, FloQast, Numeric
Planful
Two alternativesOracle NetSuite, Sage Intacct
against: BlackLine, Workiva
against: Workiva
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:27yes97 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:01yes37 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:13yes2121 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 09:00yes204 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 07:31yes209 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:28yes54 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 11:04yes1730 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:49yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:39yes523 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:59yes1019 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:59yes2064 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:58yes647 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:44yes97 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:59yes36 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:33yes2422 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:59yes193 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:29yes248 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:04yes53 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:47yes2428 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:59yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:08yes831 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:46yes912 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:47yes1934 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:08yes523 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:13yes108 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:57no04 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 10:35yes1624 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:24yes294 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:17yes238 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 09:51yes128 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 10:47yes2258 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:10yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:24yes528 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:13yes2238 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:59yes1941 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:25yes1327 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 07:36yes97 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:03yes45 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:30yes2527 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 08:44yes142 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:18yes248 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:03yes52 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:01yes2133 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:00yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:09yes1235 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:03yes917 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:32yes2130 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:53yes1120 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:44no05 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 10:34no05 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:29yes1426 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 08:10yes164 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 09:13yes148 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:27no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 07:51yes2151 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:08yes52 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:45no036 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:38yes1733 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 07:46yes1520 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:24yes919 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 07:39no02 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 10:48no02 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 11:26yes1542 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:11yes174 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:21yes256 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 07:58yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:16yes2343 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:17yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:55yes1441 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:49yes2331 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:27yes2379 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:12yes2241 s

Noise floor in this category

Flips between the edition run and its calibration repeat. Six prompts per model is a small sample; the index-wide floor is the number to trust.

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Claude Haiku 4.5
1 of 3 flipped
GPT-5.4 mini
1 of 3 flipped
Gemini 3.5 Flash
2 of 5 flipped
Perplexity Sonar
0 of 3 flipped
Grok 4.1 Fast
1 of 5 flipped
Mistral Small
3 of 4 flipped
DeepSeek V4 Flash
3 of 5 flipped
Llama 4 Maverick
2 of 2 flipped
Qwen 3.7 Flash
4 of 5 flipped
Kimi K2
3 of 6 flipped
GLM 4.7 FlashX
2 of 4 flipped
MiniMax M2.5
4 of 5 flipped

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
Adra (by Trintech) read as Trintech Adra
Adra by Trintech read as Trintech Adra
NetSuite read as Oracle NetSuite
Prophix One read as Prophix
Prophix One (by Dassault Systèmes) read as Prophix
Vena Solutions read as Vena
Wolters Kluwer CCH Tagetik read as CCH Tagetik
Unresolved, counted raw
Attio
Better Proposals
Cirrus Insight
Close.com
Closing Folders
CloudTalk
Generic project-management tools or spreadsheets
HelloSign
HelloSign / Dropbox Sign
Kira Systems
Numeric's Essentials package
Pipeline CRM
Puzzle IO
Qualia
Qwilr
SAP Financial Close apps
Sage Intacct Close Automation
Salesflare
SignEasy
Sonar
novacly
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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