Small business▲+7Since September 2026: 2% → 9%, +7 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
9%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 9 → 5 of 59
1 category · RankedCradle
17Judge labels
9First choices
0Negative labels
8 / 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.
Best standing
9% in Lease accounting for small business buyers
Rank 4 of 71 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 6 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business4 of 67
9%11 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market4 of 71
8%6 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In lease accounting · 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 Cradle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lease accounting | Accounting and close | 8% | 4 of 71 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by FinQuery at 29% | ▲+5Since September 2026: 2% → 7%, +5 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Cradle held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Lease accounting · by segment
Mid-market▲+5Since September 2026: 2% → 7%, +5 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 12 → 4 of 64
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lease accounting | 2% | 7% | ▲+5Since September 2026: 2% → 7%, +5 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 12 → 4 of 71 |
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 Cradle 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 Cradle 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labels8
Scale-constrained1 label1
Negative4 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 11 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.
“Cradle is the lowest cost published dedicated solution when you need paid support for up to 10 agreements.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Lease accounting · budget prompt · first choice
“Best for: Smallest budgets ... $99/month for up to 10 agreements (cheapest published option)” MiniMax M2.5 · Lease accounting · budget prompt · first choice
“iLeaseXpress or Cradle at $99/month offers the best balance of compliance features” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Lease accounting · budget prompt · first choice
“If you have 6-20 leases: Cradle offers the best value at $99-199/month” Kimi K2 · Lease accounting · budget 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cradle, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cradle was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cradle, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cradle 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 Cradle. 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 17 of the 17 answers that named Cradle and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
leaseabstractors.com14
softwareconnect.com14
capterra.com12
finquery.com11
g2.com10
debtbook.com9
acquisition-international.com8
netgain.tech8
occupier.com8
sourceforge.net8
102 of the 102 domain citations in answers naming Cradle came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cradleaccounting.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Cradle takes 8% of first choices and FinQuery takes 29%.ShowHide
Search and answers
cradleaccounting.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Cradle takes 8% of first choices and FinQuery takes 29%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “lease accounting tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “lease accounting software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 33,100 a month (“cradle”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 22,801 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 486 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 618 · 17 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 594
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
8%
rank 4 of 71 in lease accounting
Segment leader
29%
FinQuery
- First choices
- 9 across its categories
- Named in
- 17 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 17 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 cradleaccounting.com
138
subdomains included
Content
127
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 127 | 0 | 2025-06-09 | Lease accounting |
Most recent
- 2025-06-094552162 lease incentives blog
- 2024-09-113447688 how events work blog
- 2024-05-223449895 suspense account journals on initial recognition blog
- 2024-02-124417573 how to set up foreign exchange fx accounting in cradle blog
- 2023-12-194455303 fixed increases blog
- 2023-10-165352175 customer support details blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cradleaccounting.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. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow Cradle
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
Cradle is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Cradle is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Lease accounting software that automates compliance with ASC 842, IFRS 16, GASB 87, GASB 96, and FRS 102.
- For
- companies of all sizes, from small CPA firms with a handful of leases to large multinationals with complex portfolios and foreign exchange requirements
- Price stated
- Pricing starts at $99 per month for up to 10 lease agreements, and $199 per month for up to 20 agreements. Enterprise pricing is available for larger portfolios. A 30-day free trial is available with no credit card required. cradleaccounting.com
- Starting price
- 99 cradleaccounting.com
- Free plan or trial
- 30-day free trial with full access cradleaccounting.com
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Cradle's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: cradleaccounting.com, cradleaccounting.com. 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 Cradle'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 Cradle, 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 Cradle by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cradle 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 Cradle, 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.