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Fixed asset accounting · October 2026 Edition

Xero vs QuickBooks

Zero of fourteen models named Xero first on the direct prompt; zero named QuickBooks. Xero was named by ten of the fourteen models and QuickBooks by ten and Xero carries 12 labels and QuickBooks 14, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Xero

accepted challenger

Named in twenty-one categories this edition.

QuickBooks

accepted challenger

Named in eight categories this edition.

First-choice share4%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.

Negative rate0%14%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.

Rank in category#7#8A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.

Labels1214A count; the two differ.

The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Xero reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Sage Fixed Assets was named alongside these two in ten of the fourteen direct answers. Sage Fixed Assets vs Xero · Sage Fixed Assets vs QuickBooks · AssetTiger vs Xero

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the fixed asset accounting page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.

XeroFirst choices, of fourteen modelsQuickBooks

Direct00

Paraphrase00

Comparative00

Budget-constrained22

Scale-constrained00

Negative002 against QuickBooks

Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Xero and QuickBooks were named in the same answer 202 times, of the 795 answers naming Xero and the 328 naming QuickBooks. In those answers QuickBooks took the first choice twenty-two times and Xero seventeen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Xero and QuickBooks stood in it.

Model	Direct	Paraphrase	Comparative	Budget-constrained	Scale-constrained	Negative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B

Xero

QuickBooks

first choice

named as an alternative

argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Xero on the left and QuickBooks on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Xero and QuickBooks stood in it.

Neither was named

14 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.

Claude Haiku 4.5Sage Fixed Assets alternatives: EZOfficeInventory, NetSuite Fixed Assets Management, Sage Intacct

GPT-5.4 miniSage Fixed Assets alternatives: MRI Fixed Asset Accounting, ProSeries Fixed Assets Manager, Thomson Reuters Fixed Assets CS

Gemini 3.5 FlashSage Fixed Assets alternatives: AssetAccountant, Bloomberg Tax Fixed Assets, NetAsset

Perplexity SonarMicrosoft Dynamics 365 Finance Fixed Assets, NetSuite Fixed Assets Management alternatives: AssetAccountant, Sage Fixed Assets

Grok 4.1 FastSage Intacct alternatives: NetSuite Fixed Assets Management, Sage Fixed Assets

Mistral SmallSage Intacct alternatives: MRI Fixed Asset Accounting, ProSeries Fixed Asset Manager

DeepSeek V4 FlashSage Intacct alternatives: Asset Panda, MRI Fixed Asset Accounting, NetSuite Fixed Assets Management, Sage Fixed Assets

Llama 4 MaverickAssetAccountant alternatives: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Fixed Assets, NetSuite Fixed Assets Management, Sage Fixed Assets

Qwen 3.7 FlashMRI Fixed Asset Accounting, Sage Fixed Assets alternatives: Bassets Fixed Asset System

Kimi K2Oracle NetSuite alternatives: Fixed Asset Pro, Sage Intacct

GLM 4.7 FlashXSage Intacct alternatives: AssetTiger, Bassets eDepreciation, Bricks Fixed Assets, MRI Fixed Asset Accounting, NetSuite Fixed Assets Management

MiniMax M2.5Sage Intacct alternatives: Bloomberg Tax Fixed Assets, Oracle NetSuite, Thomson Reuters Fixed Assets CS

GPT-6 LunaSage Fixed Assets alternatives: AssetAccountant, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, Netgain's NetAsset, Oracle NetSuite, Sage Intacct

Muse Glimmer 30BSage Fixed Assets alternatives: NetSuite Fixed Assets Management

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.

Small business

Xero leads by four points.

Xero#2 of 11

QuickBooks#5 of 11

The full small business standing →

Mid-marketThe figures above

Level: the same share of first choices.

Xero#7 of 14

QuickBooks#8 of 14

The full mid-market standing →

Enterprise

Level: the same share of first choices.

Xero#– of 10

QuickBooks#– of 10

The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Xero

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about QuickBooks

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

Sage Fixed Assets vs Xero Sage Fixed Assets vs QuickBooks AssetTiger vs Xero AssetTiger vs QuickBooks Sage Intacct vs Xero Sage Intacct vs QuickBooks Fixed Asset Pro vs Xero Fixed Asset Pro vs QuickBooks AssetAccountant vs Xero AssetAccountant vs QuickBooks Asset Panda vs Xero Asset Panda vs QuickBooks All twenty-eight head-to-head pages and the full fixed asset accounting standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.