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 70 → 38 of 107
11 categories · RankedBlackLine
459Judge labels
80First choices
148Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
11Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
67% in Financial close manageme for enterprise buyers
Rank 15 of 90 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 11 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of BlackLine →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business36 of 111
0%10 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market15 of 90
2%11 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise10 of 64
2%15 labels
accepted challenger
In internal controls · 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 BlackLine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internal controls and SOX | Tax and compliance | 2% | 15 of 90 | 9% | 11 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Account reconciliation | Accounting and close | 2% | 11 of 82 | 41% | 46 | criticized challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Financial close management | Accounting and close | 2% | 13 of 85 | 48% | 56 | criticized challenger | ▼−3Since September 2026: 5% → 2%, −3 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Financial consolidation | Accounting and close | 0% | 22 of 102 | 8% | 12 | accepted challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Corporate performance management | Planning and analysis | 0% | 22 of 99 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Planful at 22% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Cash flow forecasting | Treasury and cash | 0% | 57 of 101 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Agicap at 13% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AI accounting assistants | Accounting and close | 0% | 30 of 85 | 0% | 2 | 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. |
| B2B credit management | Receivables and billing | 0% | 37 of 108 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Chaser at 16% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Financial reporting and dashboards | Planning and analysis | 0% | 36 of 105 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 33% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Accounting software | Accounting and close | 0% | 30 of 55 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 44% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| SEC and disclosure reporting | Accounting and close | 0% | 41 of 63 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Workiva at 32% |
Movement
Since September 2026, BlackLine held within the floor in all eleven categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Internal controls · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 62 → 11 of 88
Enterprise▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 8 → 17 of 58
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial close manageme | 5% | 2% | ▼−3Since September 2026: 5% → 2%, −3 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 13 of 85 |
| Financial consolidation | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 22 of 102 |
| Internal controls | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 62 → 15 of 90 |
| Account reconciliation | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 22 → 11 of 82 |
| Corporate performance ma | 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 52 → 22 of 99 |
| Cash flow forecasting | 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 57 of 101, unchanged |
| 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 51 → 30 of 85 |
| B2B credit management | 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 53 → 37 of 108 |
| Financial reporting | 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 65 → 36 of 105 |
| Accounting software | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 30 of 55, unchanged |
| Disclosure reporting | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 41 of 63, 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 BlackLine 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 BlackLine 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 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 14 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 17 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 12 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 12 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 11 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 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
Direct94 labels29
Paraphrase70 labels30
Comparative94 labels34not counted in share
Budget-constrained58 labels14
Scale-constrained81 labels7
Negative62 labels7not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative459 labels in all, every segment counted; 80 of the 121 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.
“The market-leading cloud-based financial close and reconciliation platform... Large multi-ERP enterprises needing deep governance → BlackLine or Trintech” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Account reconciliation · comparative prompt · first choice
“likely to be a solution that offers a broad SOX workflow workspace with control testing, evidence, remediation, and audit trails, such as BlackLine” Llama 4 Maverick · Internal controls · budget prompt · first choice
“BlackLine is the industry giant... Choose BlackLine if you are a multi-billion dollar public enterprise with rigorous SOX compliance” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Financial close manageme · comparative prompt · first choice
“The market leader for enterprise finance teams. It automates account reconciliations, journal entries, and task management.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Account reconciliation · comparative 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.
“Frequently flagged (56% negative labels across models). Common issues include long, difficult implementations, integration challenges, complex/clunky interfaces” Grok 4.1 Fast · Financial close manageme · negative prompt · hard negative
“BlackLine – Often too complex and expensive for small teams; requires dedicated administrators and is designed for large enterprises.” Mistral Small · Financial close manageme · negative prompt · hard negative
“you will likely be marketed enterprise tools like BlackLine or Workiva... avoid these for now” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Financial close manageme · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“the best choice is usually not the big enterprise close suites like BlackLine or CCH Tagetik” GPT-5.4 mini · Financial close manageme · budget prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as BlackLine, over the 459 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BlackLine was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as BlackLine, over the 459 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BlackLine 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 BlackLine. 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 425 of the 459 answers that named BlackLine and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
numeric.io214
bluecopa.com182
guideflow.com148
highradius.com135
prophix.com133
maxima.ai127
g2.com125
learn.g2.com109
worldmetrics.org89
gitnux.org76
1,338 of the 1,338 domain citations in answers naming BlackLine came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
blackline.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, BlackLine takes 2% of first choices and FloQast takes 25%.ShowHide
Search and answers
blackline.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, BlackLine takes 2% of first choices and FloQast takes 25%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “internal controls tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “sox compliance software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 27,100 a month (“blackline”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,255 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 28,740 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,423 · 246 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,414
- Paid Google search
- 18 searches its ads show for, about 83 clicks and $4,066 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 15 of 90 in internal controls
Segment leader
25%
FloQast
- First choices
- 80 across its categories
- Named in
- 459 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 425 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 blackline.com
3,179
subdomains included
Content
2,043
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
39 · 10
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,374 | undated | Accounts receivable auto, Account reconciliation | ||
| News or press | 294 | undated | Accounts receivable auto, Accounting software | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 133 | undated | Revenue recognition, Cash application | ||
| Case study | 113 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 103 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 11 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 8 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 4 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 3 | undated |
Events in person
Last twelve months
- March 16, 2026 to March 19, 2026Shared Services & Outsourcing Week ConferenceOrlando, US
As the event pages on blackline.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page blackline.com 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. Of its titles that name a category, most name accounts receivable auto (12); 13 name its categories the models place it in. 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 BlackLine
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as BlackLine; a claim can dispute any of them.
BlackLine (Mid-Market Edition) 1BlackLine (now Trintech) 1Blackline 1
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The company
BlackLine is its own company.ShowHide
The company
BlackLine is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Agentic Financial Operations Platform™; Agentic AI that helps Finance and Accounting teams automate Record-to-Report and Invoice-to-Cash with greater speed, accuracy, and control.
- For
- Finance and Accounting teams; the Office of the CFO
- Hosting
- US2NA3EU3AP1ME2USEUAU
- Customers named
- CreditsafeThe Home DepotThe Hershey Company
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications
What BlackLine's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: blackline.com, trust.blackline.com, blackline.com/products/studio360, blackline.com/customers, blackline.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 BlackLine'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 BlackLine, 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 BlackLine by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where BlackLine 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 BlackLine, 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.