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 38 → 52 of 63
1 category · Named, not rankedBench
22Judge labels
0First choices
11Negative labels
7 / 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
8 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Bench was named 8 times in AI accounting assistants, where Sage Intacct led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business62 of 67
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market83 of 85
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In ai accounting assistants · 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI accounting assistants | Accounting and close | 0% | 83 of 85 | 62% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 22% | =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 held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · AI accounting assistants · 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 75 → 70 of 72
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI accounting assistants | 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 75 → 83 of 85 |
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 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 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained5 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 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.
“Bench is frequently called the most affordable human-assisted service for tight budgets” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI accounting assistants · budget prompt · alternative
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.
“abruptly shut down, locking thousands of small businesses out of their financial data right before tax season... clients have continued to report reliability and support issues.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI accounting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative
“Abruptly shut down Dec 2024, locking out 11,000+ businesses before year-end; sold in a fire sale” Kimi K2 · AI accounting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative
“lightweight, all-in-one AI ledger platforms (like Puzzle, Bench, or basic QuickBooks) are not robust enough” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI accounting assistants · direct prompt · soft negative
“only if your budget allows ~$200/month and you want to outsource entirely” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI accounting assistants · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Bench, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bench was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Bench, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bench 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. 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 21 of the 22 answers that named Bench and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
thedigitalmerchant.com10
articsledge.com9
fitsmallbusiness.com8
intuit.com7
upskillist.com6
xero.com6
bench.coYour site5
dualentry.com5
linkedin.com5
numeric.io5
Sixty-one of the sixty-six domain citations in answers naming Bench 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 takes 0% of first choices and Sage Intacct takes 22%.ShowHide
Search and answers
bench.co is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Bench takes 0% of first choices and Sage Intacct takes 22%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ai accounting tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “ai bookkeeping tool”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 90,500 a month (“bench”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 140,257 a month
- 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 83 of 85 in AI accounting assistants
Segment leader
22%
Sage Intacct
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 22 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 21 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on bench.co
1,716
subdomains included
Content
893
counted in the table below
Documentation
194
Product · Integration
0 · 205
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 752 | undated | Accounting software, Revenue recognition | ||
| Report or ebook | 61 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 40 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 13 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 13 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 10 | undated | |||
| Case study | 2 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page bench.co exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Bench
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Bench; a claim can dispute any of them.
Bench Accounting 2
Follow Bench
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 its own company.ShowHide
The company
Bench is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Online bookkeeping and tax for small businesses.
- For
- small businesses
- Price stated
- Simple, transparent pricing bench.co
- Starting price
- $199/mo bench.co
- Free plan or trial
- Get caught up for FREE bench.co/pricing
- Certifications
- American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers (AIPB)National Association of Certified Public Bookkeepers (NACPB)SOC2 compliantLicensed tax professionalscertified expertsSOC 2 Type 1 2025 Audit
- Customers named
- Krista MisuracaSarah SeidelmannSocial Revelation MarketingCypress CapitalGoliath Consulting GroupLoadForgeBriaChez Realty
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Bench's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: bench.co, bench.co/pricing, trust.bench.co, bench.co/customer-stories. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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'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, 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 by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Bench 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, 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.