Small business▲+3Since September 2026: 31% → 35%, +3 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
35%from 31% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 1 of 100, unchanged
5 categories · RankedFloat
161Judge labels
33First choices
26Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
35% in Cash flow forecasting for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 101 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 36 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Float →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business1 of 107
35%65 labels
endorsed leader
Mid-market2 of 101
8%36 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise13 of 107
2%15 labels
criticized challenger
In cash flow forecasting · 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 Float 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash flow forecasting | Treasury and cash | 8% | 2 of 101 | 22% | 36 | accepted challenger | ▲+5Since September 2026: 4% → 9%, +5 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Corporate performance management | Planning and analysis | 0% | 28 of 99 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Planful at 22% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| FP&A platforms | Planning and analysis | 0% | 28 of 74 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Planful at 20% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Financial modeling and scenario planning | Planning and analysis | 0% | 32 of 77 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Excel at 14% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Treasury management systems | Treasury and cash | 0% | 57 of 124 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Trovata at 28% | goneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Float held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Cash flow forecasting · by segment
Mid-market▲+5Since September 2026: 4% → 9%, +5 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
9%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 7 → 2 of 96
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 75 → 96 of 97
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash flow forecasting | 4% | 9% | ▲+5Since September 2026: 4% → 9%, +5 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 7 → 2 of 101 |
| Financial modeling | 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 14 → 32 of 77 |
| Corporate performance ma | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 28 of 99, unchanged |
| FP&A platforms | 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 38 → 28 of 74 |
| Treasury management syst | 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 33 → 57 of 124 |
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 Float 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 Float 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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
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
Direct21 labels11
Paraphrase24 labels10
Comparative31 labels15not counted in share
Budget-constrained38 labels7
Scale-constrained21 labels5
Negative26 labels4not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative161 labels in all, every segment counted; 33 of the 52 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 a small business using Xero/QuickBooks: Start with Float. It is the most intuitive and affordable way to stop guessing your cash runway.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Cash flow forecasting · comparative prompt · first choice
“Float is the go-to cashflow forecasting pick for finance teams that need rolling views driven by invoices, bills, and bank activity” Muse Glimmer 30B · Cash flow forecasting · comparative prompt · first choice
“Float is frequently recommended as one of the best cash flow forecasting software options” Mistral Small · Cash flow forecasting · budget prompt · first choice
“with Float and Cash Flow Frog being strong picks for an automated view of your cash position” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Cash flow forecasting · 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.
“products such as Float, Helm, Dryrun, and Cash Flow Frog are described as good within a narrow scope, but they do not produce a full P&L or balance-sheet forecast” Perplexity Sonar · Cash flow forecasting · negative prompt · soft negative
“Float is risky if you are not on Xero/QuickBooks/FreeAgent, need heavy custom reporting, have strong seasonality..."Absolutely hopeless for seasonal business"” Muse Glimmer 30B · Cash flow forecasting · negative prompt · soft negative
“Poor seasonal business support | Float (limited to recent 3 months or manual input...) | Seasonal SMBs—users report it's "hopeless" without custom fixes.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Cash flow forecasting · negative prompt · soft negative
“"Absolutely hopeless for seasonal business as it can only predict income based on the previous 3 months or manual guesstimates."” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Cash flow forecasting · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Float, over the 161 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Float was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Float, over the 161 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Float 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 Float. 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 139 of the 161 answers that named Float and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
tesorio.com72
drivetrain.ai67
guideflow.com62
quicken.com56
floatapp.comYour site52
cubesoftware.com47
upflow.io43
g2.com34
worldmetrics.org34
fathomhq.com33
448 of the 500 domain citations in answers naming Float came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
floatapp.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Float takes 8% of first choices and Agicap takes 13%.ShowHide
Search and answers
floatapp.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Float takes 8% of first choices and Agicap takes 13%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cash forecasting tools”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “cash flow forecasting software”
2
- Searches for its name, Google
- 60,500 a month (“float”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 177,387 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 11,199 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 498 · 37 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,384
- 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 2 of 101 in cash flow forecasting
Segment leader
13%
Agicap
- First choices
- 33 across its categories
- Named in
- 161 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 139 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 floatapp.com
82
subdomains included
Content
60
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 | 49 | 31 | 2026-09-23 | Cash flow forecasting | |
| Comparison | 6 | 6 | 2026-09-02 | Cash flow forecasting | |
| Case study | 5 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23How much cash in reserve blog
- 2026-09-23Monthly cash narrative board blog
- 2026-09-23Spreadsheet cash forecast cost blog
- 2026-09-23Weekly cash review finance team blog
- 2026-09-23Why float forecasts cash not profit blog
- 2026-09-0913 week cash flow forecast template blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page floatapp.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.
Names read as Float
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Float; a claim can dispute any of them.
Float/Cash Flow Frog 1
Follow Float
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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The company
Float is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Float is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Cash Flow Management Software
- For
- finance team
- Price stated
- 14-day free trial. No credit card required. floatapp.com
- Starting price
- 0 floatapp.com
- Free plan or trial
- 14-day free trial. No credit card required. floatapp.com
- Integrations claimed
- 2 floatapp.com/pricing
- Certifications
- CyberEssentials
- Customers named
- Voco ConsultingNetworkologyBLENDInk InnovationSummit 17CFO CentreOFCO
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What Float's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: floatapp.com, floatapp.com/pricing, floatapp.com/customers, floatapp.com/integrations. 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 Float'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 Float, 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 Float by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Float 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 Float, 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 Float is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Float is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideFloat is among the products AI models recommend first in Cash flow forecasting 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
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
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.