# Lease accounting for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, October 2026

Finance AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "lease accounting software" and as "ASC 842 and IFRS 16 compliance tool", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://finance-ai-index.com/accounting/lease-accounting/enterprise/

**Standing:** Nakisa Lease Administration leads with 32% of first choices; verdict contested. 50 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nakisa Lease Administration | 32% | 6% | 50 |
| 2 | FinQuery | 20% | 5% | 43 |
| 3 | Visual Lease | 12% | 9% | 45 |
| 4 | LeaseAccelerator | 12% | 6% | 34 |
| 5 | Black Owl Systems | 8% | 0% | 13 |
| 6 | CoStar Real Estate Manager | 2% | 0% | 14 |
| 7 | MRI ProLease | 2% | 6% | 16 |
| 8 | Accruent Lucernex | 2% | 0% | 10 |
| 9 | Trullion | 0% | 0% | 17 |
| 10 | Prophix One Lease Accounting | 0% | 19% | 16 |

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Nakisa Lease Administration; alternatives FinQuery, LeaseAccelerator, Spacebase, Visual Lease
- GPT-5.4 mini: Nakisa Lease Administration; alternatives FinQuery, MRI ProLease
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Nakisa Lease Administration; alternatives FinQuery, LeaseAccelerator, NetLease, Visual Lease
- Perplexity Sonar: FinQuery; alternatives CoStar Real Estate Manager, LeaseAccelerator, Nakisa Lease Administration, Visual Lease
- Grok 4.1 Fast: FinQuery; alternatives Nakisa Lease Administration, Visual Lease
- Mistral Small: Visual Lease; alternatives FinQuery, Prophix One Lease Accounting, Spacebase
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Nakisa Lease Administration; alternatives FinQuery, LeaseAccelerator, NetSuite Lease Accounting, Visual Lease
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Floik; alternatives Leaseflo, Vena Solutions
- Kimi K2: FinQuery; alternatives Accruent Lucernex, LeaseAccelerator, Nakisa Lease Administration
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: BlackLine Lease Accounting, Visual Lease; alternatives DebtBook, EZLease, FinQuery, NetLease
- MiniMax M2.5: FinQuery; alternatives Prophix One Lease Accounting, Spacebase
- GPT-6 Luna: FinQuery, Nakisa Lease Administration; alternatives LeaseAccelerator, Visual Lease
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Nakisa Lease Administration, Spacebase; alternatives CoStar Real Estate Manager, Leasecake, Visual Lease

## Sources the answers cite

81 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- prophix.com: 47 answers, 63 citations
- debtbook.com: 41 answers, 43 citations
- nakisa.com: 40 answers, 80 citations
- guideflow.com: 40 answers, 43 citations
- softwareconnect.com: 39 answers, 49 citations
- finquery.com: 37 answers, 40 citations
- finantrix.com: 37 answers, 37 citations
- trullion.com: 31 answers, 38 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://prophix.com/blog/best-lease-accounting-software (45 answers)
- https://debtbook.com/blog/best-lease-accounting-software (40 answers)
- https://finantrix.com/buyer-guides/lease-accounting-administration-software (37 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/lease-accounting-software (36 answers)
- https://softwareconnect.com/roundups/best-lease-accounting-software (36 answers)
- https://nakisa.com/products/lease-accounting-software (30 answers)
- https://finquery.com/lease-accounting-software (29 answers)
- https://trullion.com/blog/lease-accounting-software-solutions-for-asc-842-ifrs-16-2026-guide (24 answers)
- https://occupier.com/blog/best-lease-accounting-software (22 answers)
- https://gartner.com/reviews/market/lease-accounting-and-management-software (21 answers)

## Warned against

- Visual Lease: 4 of 45 labels negative. "Standalone tools like some older Visual Lease configurations: Strong for lease administration, but pure accounting layers may require excessive reconciliation" (Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt)
- Microsoft Excel: 3 of 3 labels negative. "Excel will create challenges supporting large lease portfolios and the complex calculations that are required to comply with the new lease accounting standards." (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- LeaseCrunch: 4 of 6 labels negative. "Avoid lighter tools like LeaseCrunch or EZLease—they're better for mid-market." (Grok 4.1 Fast, paraphrase prompt)
- Prophix One Lease Accounting: 3 of 16 labels negative. "Avoid for Your Scale - Per-user heavy (e.g., Prophix ~$99+/user/month" (Grok 4.1 Fast, budget prompt)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 10 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Nakisa Lease Administration at 33%.

- Nakisa Lease Administration: 24% to 33%, +9. Inside the floor by 1 point · rank 1 of 65, unchanged.
- FinQuery: 15% to 21%, +7. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 4 → 2 of 65.
- MRI ProLease: 7% to 2%, −5. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 5 → 6 of 65.
- LeaseAccelerator: 15% to 12%, −3. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 3 → 4 of 65.
- BlackLine Lease Accounting: 5% to 2%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 7 → 8 of 65.
- CoStar Real Estate Manager: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 8 → 12 of 65.
- Spacebase: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 10 → 16 of 65.
- Accruent Lucernex: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 14 → 7 of 65.
- Visual Lease: 15% to 14%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 2 → 3 of 65.
- Black Owl Systems: 7% to 7%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 6 → 5 of 65.
- Trullion: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 13 → 11 of 65.
- Prophix One Lease Accounting: 0% to 0%, ±0. New · not ranked in September 2026 · rank 14 of 65.

## Record

- Method: https://finance-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://finance-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Finance AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, finance-ai-index.com.