# Lease accounting for small business 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 a small B2B company. Page: https://finance-ai-index.com/accounting/lease-accounting/smb/

**Standing:** EZLease leads with 20% of first choices; verdict contested. 55 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EZLease | 20% | 9% | 45 |
| 2 | LeaseGuru | 16% | 0% | 26 |
| 3 | iLeasePro | 15% | 0% | 22 |
| 4 | Cradle | 9% | 0% | 11 |
| 5 | FinQuery | 7% | 16% | 38 |
| 6 | iLeaseXpress | 4% | 0% | 12 |
| 7 | Xero | 4% | 46% | 13 |
| 8 | Crunchafi | 2% | 0% | 18 |
| 9 | NetLease | 0% | 6% | 17 |
| 10 | Visual Lease | 0% | 50% | 26 |

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

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Spacebase; alternatives EZLease, FinQuery
- GPT-5.4 mini: LeaseQuery powered; alternatives Crunchafi, EZLease, UGAAP
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Cradle Accounting; alternatives LeaseGuru, NetLease, iLeaseXpress
- Perplexity Sonar: EZLease; alternatives Sage Intacct, Xero
- Grok 4.1 Fast: iLeasePro; alternatives FinQuery, Trullion
- Mistral Small: Xero, iLeasePro; alternatives Sage Intacct, Spacebase
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: LeaseGuru; alternatives Cradle, NetLease, Occupier, iLeasePro
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Leasesoft; alternatives FinQuery, LeaseAccelerator, Leaseflo
- Kimi K2: EZLease; alternatives FinQuery, Occupier
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: LeaseGuru; alternatives Accruent Lucernex, FinQuery, MRI ProLease, Trullion
- MiniMax M2.5: iLeasePro; alternatives EZLease, Sage Intacct
- GPT-6 Luna: LeaseGuru; alternatives LeaseCrunch
- Muse Glimmer 30B: FinQuery, formerly LeaseQuery, Spacebase; alternatives Crunchafi Lease Accounting formerly LeaseCrunch, EZLease, now part of insightsoftware, LeaseAccounting.app

## Sources the answers cite

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

- softwareconnect.com: 53 answers, 93 citations
- capterra.com: 47 answers, 77 citations
- finquery.com: 46 answers, 59 citations
- g2.com: 42 answers, 73 citations
- debtbook.com: 42 answers, 45 citations
- acquisition-international.com: 29 answers, 29 citations
- netgain.tech: 28 answers, 29 citations
- prophix.com: 26 answers, 30 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://softwareconnect.com/roundups/best-lease-accounting-software (43 answers)
- https://debtbook.com/blog/best-lease-accounting-software (41 answers)
- https://finquery.com/lease-accounting-software (36 answers)
- https://capterra.com/lease-accounting-software (33 answers)
- https://softwareconnect.com/roundups/best-lease-management-software (33 answers)
- https://acquisition-international.com/best-lease-accounting-software-of-2026-from-compliance-to-cashflow (29 answers)
- https://occupier.com/blog/best-lease-accounting-software (22 answers)
- https://prophix.com/blog/best-lease-accounting-software (21 answers)
- https://g2.com/categories/lease-accounting (20 answers)
- https://netgain.tech/blog/best-lease-accounting-software (19 answers)

## Warned against

- Visual Lease: 13 of 26 labels negative. "Avoid enterprise solutions - LeaseQuery, Visual Lease, and similar typically require custom quotes and start at higher price points" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Microsoft Excel: 8 of 8 labels negative. "Avoid: Spreadsheet-dependent workflows for growing portfolios... "Spreadsheets are fragile, error-prone, and unfit for the demands of modern regulatory standards"" (Kimi K2, negative prompt)
- FinQuery: 6 of 38 labels negative. "Avoid enterprise solutions - LeaseQuery, Visual Lease, and similar typically require custom quotes and start at higher price points" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Xero: 6 of 13 labels negative. "Tools like Xero are primarily designed for general bookkeeping and may lack the specialized features required for full compliance with lease accounting standards" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 10 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: EZLease at 20%.

- EZLease: 25% to 20%, −5. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 1 of 59, unchanged.
- Xero: 0% to 4%, +4. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 50 → 8 of 59.
- NetLease: 4% to 0%, −4. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 7 → 18 of 59.
- iLeasePro: 19% to 15%, −4. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 2 → 3 of 59.
- LeaseGuru: 12% to 15%, +3. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 3 → 2 of 59.
- Trullion: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 15 → 10 of 59.
- iLeaseXpress: 6% to 4%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 6 of 59, unchanged.
- FinQuery: 10% to 9%, −2. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 4 of 59, unchanged.
- Crunchafi: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 8 → 9 of 59.
- Visual Lease: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 63 → 58 of 59.

## 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.