# Lease accounting: 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 a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://finance-ai-index.com/accounting/lease-accounting/

**Standing:** FinQuery leads with 29% of first choices; verdict contested. 52 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FinQuery | 29% | 20% | 56 |
| 2 | EZLease | 10% | 3% | 30 |
| 3 | iLeasePro | 10% | 0% | 20 |
| 4 | LeaseGuru | 6% | 0% | 10 |
| 5 | Visual Lease | 4% | 17% | 36 |
| 6 | Crunchafi | 4% | 12% | 16 |
| 7 | LeaseCrunch | 4% | 0% | 10 |
| 8 | Trullion | 2% | 0% | 17 |
| 9 | NetLease | 0% | 0% | 13 |
| 10 | DebtBook | 0% | 0% | 14 |
| 11 | MRI ProLease | 0% | 12% | 16 |
| 12 | Occupier | 0% | 10% | 10 |

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

- Claude Haiku 4.5: SOFT4Lessee; alternatives EZLease, FinQuery, Spacebase
- GPT-5.4 mini: FinQuery; alternatives EZLease, Nakisa Lease Administration
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: FinQuery; alternatives Crunchafi, NetLease, SOFT4Lessee, Trullion
- Perplexity Sonar: FinQuery; alternatives Trullion, Visual Lease, iLeasePro
- Grok 4.1 Fast: FinQuery; alternatives LeaseCrunch, Visual Lease
- Mistral Small: iLeasePro; alternatives FinQuery, Prophix One Lease Accounting, Spacebase
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: LeaseCrunch; alternatives EZLease, FinQuery, Sage Intacct, Visual Lease
- Llama 4 Maverick: Leasecake; alternatives FinQuery, Visual Lease, iLeasePro
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: iLeasePro; alternatives FinQuery, LeaseWave, Trullion
- Kimi K2: FinQuery; alternatives EZLease, Occupier, Sage Intacct, iLeasePro
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: FinQuery; alternatives Lease Insight, LeaseAccelerator, MRI ProLease, iLeasePro
- MiniMax M2.5: FinQuery, iLeasePro; alternatives LeaseCalcs, Occupier, Spacebase
- GPT-6 Luna: FinQuery's LeaseQuery; alternatives Occupier, Visual Lease
- Muse Glimmer 30B: FinQuery, formerly LeaseQuery; alternatives MRI ProLease, SOFT4Lessee, Visual Lease, iLeasePro

## Sources the answers cite

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

- debtbook.com: 55 answers, 61 citations
- softwareconnect.com: 51 answers, 72 citations
- finquery.com: 42 answers, 62 citations
- g2.com: 41 answers, 85 citations
- capterra.com: 37 answers, 53 citations
- getapp.com: 35 answers, 56 citations
- guideflow.com: 34 answers, 37 citations
- finantrix.com: 31 answers, 31 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://debtbook.com/blog/best-lease-accounting-software (53 answers)
- https://softwareconnect.com/roundups/best-lease-accounting-software (44 answers)
- https://finquery.com/lease-accounting-software (37 answers)
- https://finantrix.com/buyer-guides/lease-accounting-administration-software (31 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/lease-accounting-software (28 answers)
- https://prophix.com/blog/best-lease-accounting-software (27 answers)
- https://capterra.com/lease-accounting-software (24 answers)
- https://getapp.com/finance-accounting-software/lease-accounting/org/mid-size-business (21 answers)
- https://softwareconnect.com/roundups/best-lease-management-software (20 answers)
- https://getapp.com/finance-accounting-software/lease-accounting (19 answers)

## Warned against

- FinQuery: 11 of 56 labels negative. "Avoid enterprise solutions like Visual Lease or LeaseQuery if you're on a limited budget" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Visual Lease: 6 of 36 labels negative. "Avoid enterprise solutions like Visual Lease or LeaseQuery if you're on a limited budget" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Nakisa Lease Administration: 5 of 13 labels negative. "you also want to avoid heavy, overly complex enterprise-level software (like Nakisa or CoStar) that requires a six-figure implementation budget" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, scale prompt)
- Spreadsheets: 3 of 3 labels negative. "Spreadsheets are error-prone, difficult to audit, and poorly suited to managing the volume of calculations" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)

## Movement since September 2026

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

- Visual Lease: 10% to 4%, −6. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 3 → 6 of 64.
- SOFT4Lessee: 6% to 2%, −4. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 6 → 13 of 64.
- FinQuery: 36% to 33%, −3. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 1 of 64, unchanged.
- Crunchafi: 2% to 4%, +2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 9 → 7 of 64.
- Trullion: 4% to 2%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 8 → 11 of 64.
- iLeasePro: 12% to 11%, −1. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 2 → 3 of 64.
- EZLease: 10% to 11%, +1. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 4 → 2 of 64.
- NetLease: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 13 → 16 of 64.
- DebtBook: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 15 → 17 of 64.
- MRI ProLease: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 14 → 18 of 64.
- Occupier: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 16 → 19 of 64.
- Nakisa Lease Administration: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 17 → 45 of 64.

## 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.