Every category where a model named Circle 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
Stablecoin platforms	Treasury and cash	14%	2 of 141	4%	28	accepted challenger
Cross-border payments and FX	Treasury and cash	0%	45 of 87	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wise Business at 39%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Circle yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Circle across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	2	1	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	1	0	0	3
Mistral Small	1	0	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	0	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	1	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	0	0	3
Kimi K2	1	1	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	1	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	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

Direct9 labels2

Paraphrase30 labels11

Comparative32 labels10not counted in share

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained14 labels4

Negative4 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative94 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 30 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.

“If you are holding long-term savings, USDC or PYUSD are generally considered safer due to their strict regulatory oversight.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Stablecoin platforms · comparative prompt · first choice

“Circle is the most direct choice for companies building around USDC and its native payment and cross-chain ecosystem.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Stablecoin platforms · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Circle (USDC) | Regulated issuer, deep liquidity, APIs. | US/global enterprises. | Custodial focus.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Stablecoin platforms · scale prompt · first choice

“Circle's managed offering is explicitly designed for this kind of lower-friction adoption.” GPT-5.4 mini · Stablecoin platforms · scale 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.

“Best for teams building directly on USDC, but requires more custom development.” MiniMax M2.5 · Stablecoin platforms · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Circle, over the 94 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Circle was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BVNK55 of 9419Compare →

Fireblocks50 of 943Compare →

Bridge45 of 947Compare →

Stripe Crypto37 of 9410Compare →

Paxos30 of 940Not among the top eight

Eco21 of 946Compare →

Crossmint16 of 943Not among the top eight

Tether13 of 942Not among the top eight

Ripple12 of 940Not among the top eight

BitPay10 of 940Not among the top eight

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 Circle. 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 88 of the 94 answers that named Circle and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

eco.com61

stablecoininsider.org39

walletinvestor.com36

coingape.com35

bvnk.com31

circle.comYour site30

crossmint.com30

fireblocks.com30

cobo.com29

opendue.com25

316 of the 346 domain citations in answers naming Circle came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

coingape.com/best-stablecoin-infrastructure-provider-companies32

eco.com/support/en/articles/15232571-best-stablecoin-infrastructure-providers-for-b2b-plat27

cobo.com/post/2026-guide-to-the-most-reliable-stablecoin-payments-providers26

fintechspecs.com/blog/best-stablecoin-infrastructure-providers23

opendue.com/blog/best-stablecoin-payment-providers23

fireblocks.com/report/compare-enterprise-stablecoin-payments19

crossmint.com/learn/stablecoin-settlement-platforms-in-202618

eco.com/support/en/articles/15261552-top-stablecoin-payment-rails-for-enterprises-202618

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

circle.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Circle takes 14% of first choices and BVNK takes 23%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “stablecoin platforms”

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not in the top ten

Position for “stablecoin payments platform”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 301,000 a month (“circle”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 242,528 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 78,492 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 8,705 · 515 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 17,534
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

67 ads · 32 video, 18 text, 17 image · 8 shown in the last 30 days

First shown May 2024, as Circle Internet Financial, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 58 in the year, 9 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

14%

rank 2 of 141 in stablecoin platforms

Segment leader

23%

BVNK

First choices: 18 across its categories
Named in: 94 answers
Its own site cited: in 88 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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Addresses on circle.com

8,932

subdomains included

Content

1,068

counted in the table below

Documentation

1,004

Product · Integration

7 · 2,286

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	815	14	2026-09-21
News or press	168	15	2026-09-28
Report or ebook	28	0	2026-01-13
Case study	25	9	2026-09-02
Conference or event	11	0	2025-12-16
Webinar or virtual event	10	0	2024-01-16
Comparison	6	1	2026-09-15
Glossary or explainer	4	undated
Podcast or video	1	0	2021-01-07

Most recent

2026-09-28Volante technologies and circle to advance stablecoin payment and settlement capabilities for financial institutions news or press
2026-09-25Circle announces cfo transition plan news or press
2026-09-25Circle foundation announces support for united nations development programme and world food programme to advance digital news or press
2026-09-22Binance invests 100 million in circle expands strategic partnership and renews commercial agreement for five years news or press
2026-09-22Circle foundation announces inaugural cdfi grants to accion opportunity fund and pacific community ventures news or press
2026-09-21Digital asset backed borrowing is now available in circle mint blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page circle.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. 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 Circle

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Circle; a claim can dispute any of them.

Circle (USDC) 9Circle (Circle Mint) 1Circle (USDC Direct) 1Circle / USDC 1

Follow Circle

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.

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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 Circle'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 Circle, 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 Circle by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Circle 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 Circle, 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 Circle is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Circle is among the products AI models recommend first in Stablecoin 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

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<a href="https://finance-ai-index.com/treasury/stablecoin-platforms/"><img src="https://finance-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/circle--stablecoin-platforms-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Stablecoin platforms, October 2026 Edition, Finance AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Stablecoin platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://finance-ai-index.com/treasury/stablecoin-platforms/"><img src="https://finance-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/circle--stablecoin-platforms-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Stablecoin platforms, October 2026 Edition, Finance AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Stablecoin platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://finance-ai-index.com/treasury/stablecoin-platforms/"><img src="https://finance-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/circle--stablecoin-platforms-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Stablecoin platforms, October 2026 Edition, Finance AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Stablecoin platforms standing, where the claim can be checked.

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.