Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 35 → 11 of 47
8 categories · RankedAirbase
171Judge labels
17First choices
32Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
8Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
17% in Spend management platfor for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 46 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 39 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Airbase →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business14 of 50
0%17 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market2 of 46
17%39 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise18 of 60
0%22 labels
criticized challenger
In spend management platfor · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Airbase for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spend management platforms | Spend and procurement | 17% | 2 of 46 | 8% | 39 | accepted challenger | ▼−11Since September 2026: 26% → 15%, −11 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Expense management | Spend and procurement | 6% | 5 of 54 | 0% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by Ramp at 35% | ▲+5Since September 2026: 2% → 7%, +5 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Corporate cards | Spend and procurement | 3% | 5 of 67 | 0% | 14 | accepted challenger | ▼−1Since September 2026: 5% → 4%, −1 point. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Accounts payable automation | Spend and procurement | 2% | 10 of 54 | 18% | 11 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Procure-to-pay | Spend and procurement | 0% | 23 of 87 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 42% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Business bill pay | Treasury and cash | 0% | 24 of 98 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by BILL at 32% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| B2B payment acceptance | Receivables and billing | 0% | 33 of 94 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Versapay at 19% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Global e-invoicing compliance | Tax and compliance | 0% | 91 of 136 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Avalara E-Invoicing at 25% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Airbase moved past the floor in one of eight categories: Spend management platfor, −11 points to 15%. It held within the floor in the other seven.
Best category · Spend management platfor · by segment
Mid-market▼−11Since September 2026: 26% → 15%, −11 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
15%from 26% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 1 pointRank 2 → 3 of 46
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 17 → 14 of 55
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spend management platfor | 26% | 15% | ▼−11Since September 2026: 26% → 15%, −11 points. Past the 10-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked. | Moved past the floor | Rank 2 of 46, unchanged |
| Expense management | 2% | 7% | ▲+5Since September 2026: 2% → 7%, +5 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 10 → 5 of 54 |
| Corporate cards | 5% | 4% | ▼−1Since September 2026: 5% → 4%, −1 point. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 → 5 of 67 |
| Accounts payable automat | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 13 → 10 of 54 |
| Procure-to-pay | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 22 → 23 of 87 |
| Business bill pay | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 15 → 24 of 98 |
| B2B payment acceptance | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 33 of 94, unchanged |
| Global e-invoicing compl | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 91 of 136, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Airbase across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Airbase across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 14 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct45 labels9
Paraphrase22 labels5
Comparative44 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained7 labelsNone
Scale-constrained32 labels3
Negative21 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative171 labels in all, every segment counted; 17 of the 18 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“or Airbase if you want a unified platform for all financial operations. Both offer the enterprise features mid-market companies need” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Corporate cards · direct prompt · first choice
“Most mid-sized B2B companies find that Ramp or Airbase provide the best balance of features, ease of use, and value for money.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Spend management platfor · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Airbase is the stronger choice — it gives you pre-spend control and procurement-to-payment automation that Ramp doesn't match” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Expense management · direct prompt · first choice
“Airbase is frequently cited as the top choice due to its comprehensive features and focus on both pre- and post-spend control” Mistral Small · Expense management · direct prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“for buyers who want a standalone finance vendor... verify the product's roadmap, support ownership, and integration priorities fit your needs” GPT-6 Luna · Spend management platfor · negative prompt · soft negative
“Airbase was acquired by Paylocity in 2025, and there is some uncertainty about its future roadmap” Mistral Small · Accounts payable automat · negative prompt · soft negative
“Airbase is listed with the note "Acquired by Paylocity (2025) — roadmap uncertainty"” Muse Glimmer 30B · Accounts payable automat · negative prompt · soft negative
“Caveat: No longer sold as standalone; requires Paylocity relationship” Kimi K2 · Spend management platfor · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Airbase, over the 171 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Airbase was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Airbase, over the 171 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Airbase was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Airbase. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 158 of the 171 answers that named Airbase and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
ramp.com94
brex.com63
bill.com62
g2.com47
rippling.com45
emburse.com44
rho.co43
airwallex.com40
learn.g2.com38
zylo.com36
512 of the 512 domain citations in answers naming Airbase came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
airbase.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Airbase takes 17% of first choices and Ramp takes 44%.ShowHide
Search and answers
airbase.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Airbase takes 17% of first choices and Ramp takes 44%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “spend management platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “spend management platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 14,800 a month (“airbase”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 577 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 5,429 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 105 · 22 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,617
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
17%
rank 2 of 46 in spend management platfor
Segment leader
44%
Ramp
- First choices
- 17 across its categories
- Named in
- 171 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 158 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Airbase
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Airbase; a claim can dispute any of them.
Airbase (by Paylocity) 6Airbase by Paylocity 4Airbase (Maxio) 1Airbase (Paylocity for Finance) 1Airbase (now Paylocity for Finance) 1Airbase (now Paylocity) 1Airbase (now part of Paylocity) 1Airbase / Paylocity 1Airbase / Ramp 1Paylocity/Airbase 1
Follow Airbase
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Airbase is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Airbase is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Paylocity for Finance combines our advanced spend management capabilities with Paylocity’s robust HCM platform, so you can manage both payroll and non-payroll expenses on one platform. This unified approach delivers real-time visibility, improved financial planning, and enhanced control over company spending.
- For
- Finance professionals
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Airbase's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: airbase.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Airbase's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Airbase, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Airbase by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Airbase is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Airbase, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Airbase is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Airbase is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideAirbase is among the products AI models recommend first in Spend management platforms this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.