AI Indexes
Finance AI Index
September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 · The permanent record of that edition, superseded since. The current standing is on the category page →
Index › Spend and procurement › Strategic sourcing › Small business › September 2026 Edition

Strategic sourcing for small business buyers

Asked as “strategic sourcing software”, and as “e-sourcing and RFP tool”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 55 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
31%
Contested · Precoro 11%
31Tradogram11Precoro11oboloo47others

31% of first choices, contested.

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 small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Tradogram31%3%30endorsed leader
02Precoro11%11%27accepted challenger
03oboloo11%0%14accepted challenger
04Market Dojo9%0%10accepted challenger
05Procurify4%5%19accepted challenger
Show the five products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
10SAP Ariba0%88%25criticized challenger
09Coupa0%83%23criticized challenger
08Jaggaer0%77%13criticized challenger
07LinkedIn Recruiter0%42%12criticized challenger
06Manatal0%0%10accepted 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 fifteen head-to-head pages: the top six 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 →
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative50%
Key
01Tradogram31%
02Precoro11%
03oboloo11%
04Market Dojo9%
05Procurify4%
06Manatal0%
07LinkedIn Recruiter0%
08Jaggaer0%
09Coupa0%
10SAP Ariba0%

What they warned about

One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. 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 and MiniMax M2.5 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.
SAP Ariba
88%
22 of 25 labels negative · 11 of 12 models · 15 hard negative
“enterprise-level strategic sourcing and procure-to-pay (P2P) suites like SAP Ariba, Coupa, or GEP SMART are out of the question” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
Coupa
83%
19 of 23 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 14 hard negative
“Enterprise Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Strategic Sourcing Software (e.g., Coupa, SAP Ariba) ... **Why avoid:** These systems are incredibly complex” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Jaggaer
77%
10 of 13 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 10 hard negative
“What to avoid on a tight budget - **JAGGAER One / Coupa:** Enterprise-grade... Not viable for small budgets.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
LinkedIn Recruiter
42%
5 of 12 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“sourcing tools that small businesses should approach with caution or avoid altogether... **LinkedIn Recruiter Corporate** ($10,800-$15,000+ per seat annually)” MiniMax M2.5, negative 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. 1085 links across 276 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · G238 answers · 76 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Sourceforge31 answers · 50 citations · 12 models
31 answers · 36 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Spendflo26 answers · 33 citations · 9 models
25 answers · 29 citations · 11 models
23 answers · 24 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Tradogram19 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
19 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
17 answers · 24 citations · 8 models
15 answers · 15 citations · 9 models
vendor site · AuraVMS14 answers · 19 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Guideflow14 answers · 14 citations · 8 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 strategic sourcing software”, “sourcing tools”, “strategic sourcing 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 days
Tradogram tradogram.com31%1518804208,1291
Precoro precoro.com11%2831,000382,96686
oboloo oboloo.com11%3720011,787
Market Dojo marketdojo.com9%312608261$1213
Loopio loopio.com5%153,600804,64026
Procurify procurify.com4%2204,4004362,225$28214
Spendflo spendflo.com4%37390518,2980
Proposify proposify.com2%73,6002838,10327
Ramp ramp.com2%1042246,00049,733770,056$13,511120
Prokuria prokuria.com2%6

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 20 sites; 0 of them are among the sites the models cited here. The first result for “best strategic sourcing software” is procurementmag.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.
ShowHide
ModelDirect“What is the best strategic sourcing software for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which e-sourcing and RFP tool would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top sourcing tools for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best strategic sourcing software for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a strategic sourcing software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which sourcing tools should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceBonfireChanged
Two alternativesArphie, SiftHub
against: Proposable
Manatal
Four alternativesJuicebox, Loxo, Pin, Workable
SourceRFX, Tradogram
Three alternativesPrecoro, ProcurePort, oboloo
no first choiceagainst: Coupa, SAP Ariba
GPT-5.4 miniPrecoro
Two alternativesProcurify, Workday Strategic Sourcing
against: SAP Ariba
Loopio, TradogramChanged
One alternativeProcurementExpress.com
LinkedIn Recruiter
Two alternativesHireEZ, SeekOut
Precoro, Procurify
One alternativeSourcing Force
against: SAP Ariba
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashTradogram
Four alternativesAutoRFP.ai, Catapult, Kodiak Hub, Precoro
against: Coupa, GEP SMART, SAP Ariba
Market DojoChanged
Four alternativesLoopio, PandaDoc, Procurify, Steerlab
against: Coupa, SAP Ariba
Pin
Four alternativesGem, Juicebox, Loxo, RocketReach
oboloo
Four alternativesOlive, Precoro, Procuman, Tradogram
against: Coupa, GEP SMART, SAP Ariba
Precoro, Tradogram
Four alternativesProcurify, Tropic, Vendr, Zip
against: Coupa, Jaggaer, NetSuite, SAP Ariba
against: AliExpress, Alibaba, Beamery, CJ Dropshipping, Coupa, Enterprise Gem, Fiverr Enterprise, LinkedIn Recruiter, SAP Ariba, Upwork, iCIMS
Perplexity SonarTradogram
Two alternativesProcol, oboloo
Market DojoChanged
Three alternativesBusinessBid, Procol, oboloo
Manatal, Pin
Four alternativesFetcher, HireEZ, Juicebox, Leonar
against: Gem
Tradogram
Three alternativesBellwether Purchasing Software, Procol, oboloo
against: SAP Ariba
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.1 FastTradogram
Three alternativesMarket Dojo, Precoro, Procurify
ProposifyChanged
One alternativeLoopio
against: AutoRFP.ai, Responsive
Breezy HR, Loxo
Three alternativesFetcher, Manatal, Workable
oboloo
Three alternativesMarket Dojo, Procurify, VendorPanel
no first choice
Three alternativesScoutbee, Team Procure, Tradogram
against: 1688.com, Alibaba, DHgate, Global Sources, ThomasNet
Mistral SmallTradogram
Two alternativesPenny Software, Spendflo
LoopioChanged
Two alternativesBellwether Purchasing Software, Scanmarket
Manatal
Two alternativesContactOut, NoXX
against: SeekOut
Tradogram
One alternativeAuraVMS
no first choiceagainst: Coupa, Ivalua, Jaggaer, SAP Ariba
DeepSeek V4 FlashMarket Dojo
Four alternativesPrecoro, Procol, ProcurePort, Vendorful
against: Coupa, SAP Ariba
AutoRFP.aiChanged
Two alternativesDeepRFP, Tribble
against: Loopio, Qvidian, Responsive
Loxo
Five alternativesContactOut, Fetcher, Juicebox, Manatal, SeekOut
against: Gem, HireEZ, LinkedIn Recruiter
Tradogram
One alternativeProcurePort
against: Coupa, Jaggaer, Precoro, ProcureDesk
no first choice
Six alternativesDeepStream, Fairmarkit, Precoro, Procurify, Tradogram, Vendorful
against: Coupa, Jaggaer, SAP Ariba
against: 1688.com, AliExpress, Alibaba, Coupa, DHgate, Global Sources, Ivalua, Jaggaer, Made-in-China, Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement, SAP Ariba
Llama 4 MaverickGlobality
One alternativeNextBuy
no first choiceChangedLoxo
Four alternativesJuicebox, Leonar, Manatal, Pin
Ramp
Three alternativesControlHub, Precoro, Tradogram
no first choiceagainst: Alibaba, Global Sources, ThomasNet
Qwen 3.7 FlashProcurify
Four alternativesAirtable, Kissflow Procurement, Spendesk, Zoho Expense
1upChanged
Two alternativesPresel, Steerlab
Pin
Three alternativesJuicebox, Loxo, Manatal
oboloo
Three alternativesProcurify, SourceRFX, Tradogram
against: Coupa, Precoro, SAP Ariba
no first choice
Four alternativesCovesting, NegoCloud, Procurify, Ziglu
against: Oracle NetSuite, SAP, Salesforce CPQ
Kimi K2Precoro
Four alternativesArchlet, Prokuria, Team Procure, oboloo
against: Coupa, Ivalua, Jaggaer, SAP Ariba
ProkuriaChanged
Four alternativesBonfire, PandaDoc, PowerRFP, Proposify
against: Scoutbee
ContactOut, Gem
One alternativeLinkedIn Recruiter
against: HireEZ, SeekOut
oboloo
Two alternativesPrecoro, Tradogram
against: Coupa, Ivalua, Jaggaer, SAP Ariba
AuraVMS, Precoro, Tradogram
Two alternativesZapro, oboloo
against: Coupa, GEP SMART, Ivalua, Jaggaer, SAP Ariba
against: Coupa, DSers, Ivalua, SAP Ariba
GLM 4.7 FlashXTradogram
Two alternativesPrecoro, ProcureDesk
TradogramHeld
Two alternativesLoopio, Precoro
Gem
One alternativeLinkedIn Recruiter
Spendwise, TYASuite Procurement, Tradogram
Two alternativesProkuria, Ramp
no first choiceagainst: Beamery, Coupa, GEP SMART, HireEZ, Jaggaer, LinkedIn Recruiter, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle NetSuite, Oracle Sourcing, Oracle Taleo, Pymetrics, SAP Ariba, SAP S/4HANA, Workday HCM, Workday P2P/T&E, iCIMS
MiniMax M2.5Precoro, Tradogram
Three alternativesAirbase, NextBuy, Procurify
against: Coupa, SAP Ariba
Inventive AI, LoopioChanged
Two alternativesAutoRFP.ai, PowerRFP
Pin
Two alternativesLinkedIn Recruiter, Manatal
Spendflo, Tradogram
Three alternativesKissflow, Market Dojo, Precoro
Tradogram
Four alternativesPrecoro, ProcureKey, Procurify, oboloo
against: Coupa, Gem, HireEZ, Jaggaer, LinkedIn Recruiter, SAP Ariba, SeekOut
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 09:16no05 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:43yes35 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 10:53yes918 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:39yes204 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 09:42yes217 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 10:55yes136 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:57yes2123 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:12yes51 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:30no043 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:01yes1629 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 10:00yes1948 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:49yes2019 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 08:27yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:07yes37 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:13yes1623 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:33yes203 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 07:33yes228 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:19yes139 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:32yes2133 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:06yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:47yes1058 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 09:29yes2321 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 07:39yes2229 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:01yes930 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:08yes98 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 10:41yes35 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:02yes2425 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 09:38yes207 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 11:05yes2210 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:25yes97 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:01yes2363 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 07:57yes52 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:55yes1060 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:24yes2529 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:09yes25143 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:37yes516 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 07:32yes98 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:43yes35 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 10:38yes3232 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:58yes173 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:48yes256 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 07:32yes148 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 10:55yes2235 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:08yes52 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:38yes824 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:05yes2021 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 08:37yes1837 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:42yes915 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:41no06 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:43no06 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:20yes1124 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:28yes194 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:15yes138 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 09:25no06 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:01yes1945 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:14yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:38no045 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 07:46yes1826 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 07:45yes1013 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 10:10yes1072 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:00yes1815 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:02yes34 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:21yes1517 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:50yes243 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 09:06yes239 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:42yes54 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:32yes2021 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:04yes57 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:25no027 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:18yes2420 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:21yes1549 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:48yes1655 s

Normalization in this category

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

ShowHide
Category-scoped readings
1688 read as 1688.com
GEP read as GEP SMART
Workday P2P read as Workday P2P/T&E
Unresolved, counted raw
1up
Ashby
Aurora
Bellwether BPM
Breezy HR
Catapult
Covesting
DSers
Determine, Inc.
Enterprise Gem
Europages
FASHIONGO
Globality
GoPerfect
Inventive AI
Kompass
Loopio Foundations
Maker's Row
MasdarPro
Microsoft Power Apps
NegoCloud
NoXX (NoXX.ai)
OpenText Sourcing
Oracle Sourcing
Penny Software
Presel
Proposable
Pymetrics
QIMA
QorusDocs/Iris
QuoteWerks
RFQ.io
RFXapp
Rival
SeekOut Recruit Core
Snookr
Sourcing.io
Tribble
V-Trust
VendorPanel
Wholesale Central
Workday HCM
Ziglu
Zoho Recruit
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
← Spend management platforSupplier management →