Small business=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 8 → 5 of 46
1 category · RankedEngine
30Judge labels
4First choices
2Negative labels
11 / 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
4% in Corporate travel managem for small business buyers
Rank 5 of 61 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 18% of its 11 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Engine →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 49
4%17 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market5 of 61
3%11 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise14 of 49
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
In corporate travel managem · 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 Engine 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate travel management | Spend and procurement | 3% | 5 of 61 | 18% | 11 | accepted challenger | ▼−1Since September 2026: 4% → 4%, −1 point. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Engine held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Corporate travel managem · by segment
Mid-market▼−1Since September 2026: 4% → 4%, −1 point. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 of 57, unchanged
Enterprise=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 18 → 13 of 46
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate travel managem | 4% | 4% | ▼−1Since September 2026: 4% → 4%, −1 point. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 of 61, 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 Engine 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 Engine 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 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative7 labelsNone
Budget-constrained10 labels4
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative8 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 5 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.
“For a budget-limited company, Engine or Ramp stand out for having zero platform fees and no contracts” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Corporate travel managem · budget prompt · first choice
“I strongly recommend starting with Engine since it's completely free with no hidden costs” MiniMax M2.5 · Corporate travel managem · budget prompt · first choice
“Engine is recommended for companies that want free access to pre-negotiated hotel rates, consolidated billing, and policy enforcement without implementation cycles” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Corporate travel managem · comparative prompt · alternative
“Engine is another strong free option for small businesses wanting flexibility and no setup fees.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Corporate travel managem · 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.
“self-serve travel management platforms, such as Engine, Itilite, Navan, and Perk, may have limitations and compliance gaps” Llama 4 Maverick · Corporate travel managem · negative prompt · soft negative
“user reviews highlight slow and inconsistent support response times” Mistral Small · Corporate travel managem · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Engine, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Engine was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Engine, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Engine 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 Engine. 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 30 of the 30 answers that named Engine and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
engine.comYour site22
ottotheagent.com22
perk.com19
ramp.com17
navan.com15
oncehub.com14
g2.com13
learn.g2.com13
bill.com11
brex.com10
134 of the 156 domain citations in answers naming Engine came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
engine.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Engine takes 3% of first choices and Navan takes 53%.ShowHide
Search and answers
engine.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Engine takes 3% of first choices and Navan takes 53%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “travel management platforms”
1
Position for “corporate travel booking platform”
2
- Searches for its name, Google
- 90,500 a month (“engine”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,465,204 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 141,924 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 43,202 · 640 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,196
- Paid Google search
- 7 searches its ads show for, about 697 clicks and $4,510 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
3%
rank 5 of 61 in corporate travel managem
Segment leader
53%
Navan
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 30 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 30 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 engine.com
10,105
subdomains included
Content
1,507
counted in the table below
Documentation
34
Product · Integration
24 · 569
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 915 | 62 | 2026-09-28 | Corporate travel managem, Expense management | |
| Conference or event | 483 | 0 | 2025-11-06 | ||
| Comparison | 44 | 18 | 2026-09-16 | ||
| Podcast or video | 25 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 13 | 2 | 2026-09-22 | ||
| Case study | 10 | 0 | 2025-06-23 | ||
| Template or tool | 10 | 1 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 6 | 0 | 2025-12-03 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Itilite review blog
- 2026-09-28Amex gbt review blog
- 2026-09-28Expensify review blog
- 2026-09-28Corpay lodging review blog
- 2026-09-28Egencia review blog
- 2026-09-28Spotnana review blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- December 9, 2025 to December 10, 2025International Conference On Business Operations, Research and ManagementNew York City
- November 5, 2025 to November 6, 2025World Business ForumJacob Javits Convention Center, New York City
- October 22, 2025 to October 24, 2025Inc. 5000 Conference & GalaJW Marriott in Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix, USA
- October 13, 2025 to October 16, 2025TEAMS Conference & Expo 2025Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus
As the event pages on engine.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page engine.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 Engine
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Engine; a claim can dispute any of them.
Engine / DirectBill 1
Follow Engine
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
Engine is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Engine is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- All-in-one Travel Management Software for Business
- For
- Businesses
- Price stated
- Free to use. No contracts, no minimum spends, no agent-assist fees. engine.com
- Starting price
- 0 engine.com
- Free plan or trial
- Free to use engine.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type IIPCICCPAGDPR
- Customers named
- Foss DemolitionHHSOOCL LogisticsNationwide TurfSims CraneThe Expo GroupMissouri Baptist UniversitySouthern Response Services
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Engine's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: engine.com, engine.com/pricing, trust.engine.com, engine.com/features/spaces, engine.com/blog/customer-stories. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Engine'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 Engine, 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 Engine by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Engine 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 Engine, 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.