Small business▼−7Since September 2026: 35% → 28%, −7 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
28%from 35% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 1 of 82, unchanged
3 categories · RankedHelcim
77Judge labels
29First choices
2Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
31% in B2B payment acceptance for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 94 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 17 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Helcim →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business1 of 87
31%28 labels
endorsed leader
Mid-market2 of 94
15%17 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise11 of 105
2%4 labels
under the label threshold
In b2b payment acceptance · 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 Helcim 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B2B payment acceptance | Receivables and billing | 15% | 2 of 94 | 0% | 17 | accepted challenger | ▼−5Since September 2026: 17% → 12%, −5 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Embedded payments platforms | Receivables and billing | 2% | 14 of 110 | 40% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Stripe Connect at 53% | |
| B2B BNPL and net terms | Receivables and billing | 0% | 53 of 90 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Resolve Pay at 56% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Helcim held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · B2B payment acceptance · by segment
Mid-market▼−5Since September 2026: 17% → 12%, −5 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
12%from 17% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 1 → 2 of 84
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 9 → 17 of 89
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B2B payment acceptance | 17% | 12% | ▼−5Since September 2026: 17% → 12%, −5 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 1 → 2 of 94 |
| Embedded payments | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 14 of 110, unchanged |
| B2B BNPL and terms | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 53 of 90, 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 Helcim 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 Helcim 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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
Direct17 labels10
Paraphrase4 labels1
Comparative7 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained35 labels18
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative9 labels4not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative77 labels in all, every segment counted; 29 of the 34 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 most small businesses: Helcim (no monthly fees, transparent pricing, volume discounts).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Embedded payments · budget prompt · first choice
“platforms offering unlimited free ACH transfers like Nickel or Helcim would be your best value” Claude Haiku 4.5 · B2B payment acceptance · budget prompt · first choice
“Helcim offers the best combination of low, transparent rates and strong AP/AR automation” GLM 4.7 FlashX · B2B payment acceptance · direct prompt · first choice
“Best overall for small B2B businesses; transparent interchange-plus pricing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · B2B payment acceptance · negative 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.
“Avoid if you are in any industry considered "high-risk"... The low fees are not worth the risk of sudden capital lockup.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Embedded payments · negative prompt · hard negative
“frequent complaints about monthly minimums, sales-led onboarding, and pricing opacity” Mistral Small · Embedded payments · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Helcim, over the 77 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Helcim was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Helcim, over the 77 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Helcim 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 Helcim. 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 77 of the 77 answers that named Helcim and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
fitsmallbusiness.com49
techrepublic.com39
whop.com31
helcim.comYour site26
wise.com25
learn.g2.com24
stripe.com22
guideflow.com21
g2.com20
sourceforge.net20
251 of the 277 domain citations in answers naming Helcim came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
helcim.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Helcim takes 15% of first choices and Versapay takes 19%.ShowHide
Search and answers
helcim.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Helcim takes 15% of first choices and Versapay takes 19%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “b2b payment platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “b2b payment acceptance platform”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 12,100 a month (“helcim”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 143 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 52,527 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 8,967 · 449 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,722
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
15%
rank 2 of 94 in B2B payment acceptance
Segment leader
19%
Versapay
- First choices
- 29 across its categories
- Named in
- 77 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 77 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 helcim.com
592
subdomains included
Content
447
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 13
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 353 | undated | Invoicing software | ||
| News or press | 39 | undated | |||
| Blog | 30 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 19 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 3 | undated | |||
| Case study | 2 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page helcim.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.
Follow Helcim
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
Helcim is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Helcim is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Affordable Payments For Your Business
- For
- small and medium businesses
- Price stated
- no monthly fees; no hidden charges; Interchange Plus pricing; wholesale rates; 25% less helcim.com
- Starting price
- 0 helcim.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Get started for free helcim.com
- Integrations claimed
- 40 helcim.com
- Certifications
- PCI Level 1 Merchant Service Provider
- Customers named
- Good TireLone Star DentalBucks Dental Health and EstheticsCertaPro PaintersTampa Bay HealthBioHealth WellnessCharleston HealthcareApex Massage
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What Helcim's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: helcim.com, helcim.com/pricing, trust.helcim.com, helcim.com/integrations. 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 Helcim'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 Helcim, 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 Helcim by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Helcim 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 Helcim, 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 Helcim 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 Helcim is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideHelcim is among the products AI models recommend first in B2B payment acceptance 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.