Small businessgoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsNot ranked
Bench · 1 category · Named, not rankedBench Accounting
4Judge labels
0First choices
4Negative labels
4 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Bench Accounting was named 4 times in Accounting software, where Sage Intacct led with 44%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market54 of 55
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In accounting software · 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 Bench Accounting 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting software | Accounting and close | 0% | 54 of 55 | 100% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 44% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Bench Accounting held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Accounting software · by segment
Mid-market=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 46 → 49 of 50
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting software | 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 46 → 54 of 55 |
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 Bench Accounting 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 Bench Accounting 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.
No positive label carried a quote.
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.
“The most notable recent example is Bench Accounting, which abruptly shut down on December 27, 2024... carries a D- rating from the Better Business Bureau” MiniMax M2.5 · Accounting software · negative prompt · hard negative
“Bench is a clear cautionary example: after shutdown, customers reported difficulty getting their data out.” GPT-5.4 mini · Accounting software · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid or Be Extremely Cautious ... High Instability Risk ... this is a major red flag.” Kimi K2 · Accounting software · negative prompt · hard negative
“Bench Accounting (Avoid entirely if possible)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Accounting software · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Bench Accounting, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bench Accounting was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Bench Accounting, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bench Accounting 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 Bench Accounting. 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 4 of the 4 answers that named Bench Accounting and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
adtools.org3
forbes.com3
netsuite.com3
techcrunch.com3
trustpilot.com3
beancount.io2
capterra.com2
cocountant.com2
eisneramper.com2
g2.com2
Twenty-five of the twenty-five domain citations in answers naming Bench Accounting came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
bench.co is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Bench Accounting takes 0% of first choices and Sage Intacct takes 44%.ShowHide
Search and answers
bench.co is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Bench Accounting takes 0% of first choices and Sage Intacct takes 44%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “accounting software”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “accounting platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Its company's site
- bench.co shared with Bench's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 206,858 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 57,933 · 1,235 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 7,407
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 54 of 55 in accounting software
Segment leader
44%
Sage Intacct
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 4 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 4 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 Bench Accounting
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Bench Accounting; a claim can dispute any of them.
Bench 1
Follow Bench Accounting
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
Bench is the company behind Bench Accounting.ShowHide
The company
Bench is the company behind Bench Accounting.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- We give your business accurate, up-to-date financials and an expert team that you can trust.
- For
- thousands of businesses
- Price stated
- For S-Corps, C-Corps, and Partnerships, you can add-on personal filing for one partner or shareholder for just $59/mo when billed annually or $69/mo when billed monthly. bench.co/bench-tax-for-clients
- Starting price
- 59 bench.co/bench-tax-for-clients
- Free plan or trial
- Try us for free—we’ll do one month of your bookkeeping and prepare a set of financial statements for you to keep bench.co/bookkeepers-at-bench
- Certifications
- licensed tax professionalsbackground checkedaccreditedSOC 2 compliantQBO Certified Bookkeeper
- Hosting
- North American HQ
- Customers named
- HILLARY CAREY, FOUNDER, WINNOW RESEARCHMICHELLE FALCO, OWNER, FALCO COUNSELINGTRAINUALTHE VILLAGES GYM
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What Bench Accounting's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: bench.co/bookkeepers-at-bench, bench.co/bench-tax-learn-more, bench.co/bench-tax-for-clients, bench.co/tax-season-with-bench, bench.co/bench-accounting-software. 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 Bench Accounting'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 Bench Accounting, 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 Bench Accounting by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Bench Accounting 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 Bench Accounting, 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.