Braintree
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Embedded payments platforms | Receivables and billing | 2% | 9 of 110 | 22% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by Stripe Connect at 53% | |
| Payment orchestration platforms | Receivables and billing | 0% | 21 of 81 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by BlueSnap at 18% | |
| Ecommerce fraud prevention | Receivables and billing | 0% | 34 of 70 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by SEON at 16% | |
| B2B payment acceptance | Receivables and billing | 0% | 35 of 94 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Versapay at 19% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Braintree across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“The best embedded payments platform for a mid-market B2B company is Braintree” Llama 4 Maverick · Embedded payments · direct prompt · first choice
“Consumer preference and trust; ideal when your customers are already PayPal users. Higher fees but potentially higher conversion.” Kimi K2 · Embedded payments · comparative prompt · alternative
“Good middle ground between Stripe's flexibility and PayPal's brand trust.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · B2B payment acceptance · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for: Companies where PayPal acceptance is a commercial requirement” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Embedded payments · direct 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.
“frequent complaints about monthly minimums, sales-led onboarding, and pricing opacity” Mistral Small · Embedded payments · negative prompt · soft negative
“Less specialized for complex embedded platform flows” GPT-5.4 mini · Embedded payments · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Braintree, over the 45 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Braintree was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 43 of the 45 answers that named Braintree and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for Braintree, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Braintree stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 60,500 a month (“braintree”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 10,482 a month
- Its own site
- No site of its own on file, so no site figures
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 45 answers
- Its own site cited
- No site on file to match
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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 Braintree
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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.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Braintree by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Braintree 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 Braintree, 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.