AI Indexes
Finance AI Index
Index › Products › Invoice Ninja · October 2026 Edition
2 categories · Ranked

Invoice Ninja

59Judge labels
2First choices
8Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Global e-invoicing compl for mid-market buyers
Rank 11 of 136 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 12 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Invoice Ninja →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In global e-invoicing compl · 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 Invoice Ninja 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Global e-invoicing complianceTax and compliance2%11 of 13617%12accepted challengernewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
Invoicing softwareReceivables and billing0%15 of 7117%12accepted challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Invoice Ninja held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 10 points.

Best category · Global e-invoicing compl · by segment

Small business=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 94 → 21 of 106
Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 12 of 116, unchanged

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
Global e-invoicing compl0%2%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.New this editionRank 11 of 136, unchanged
Invoicing software0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 19 → 15 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 Invoice Ninja across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00101
Gemini 3.5 Flash02002
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small00011
DeepSeek V4 Flash02204
Llama 4 Maverick00011
Qwen 3.7 Flash01203
Kimi K211103
GLM 4.7 FlashX02024
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00202

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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative21 labelsNone
Budget-constrained21 labels2
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative11 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative59 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“Start with Invoice Ninja if you need genuine e-invoicing compliance on a budget” Kimi K2 · Global e-invoicing compl · budget prompt · first choice
“Invoice Ninja (Best Value for Advanced Features): ... Enterprise plan is only $18/month ... unlocks full Peppol network access” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Global e-invoicing compl · budget prompt · alternative
“Best for Customization & Automation: Invoice Ninja ... is a powerhouse.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Invoicing software · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Free self-hosted; hosted from ~$10/mo ... Self-hosting requires setup” Grok 4.1 Fast · Invoicing software · 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.

“Critical Vulnerability (CVE-2024-55555): A critical insecure deserialization vulnerability that allows authenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Global e-invoicing compl · negative prompt · hard negative
“Invoice Ninja (critical SSRF vulnerability)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Invoicing software · negative prompt · hard negative
“while it is a good standalone tool, it may not be suitable for businesses with more complex invoicing needs” Llama 4 Maverick · Invoicing software · negative prompt · soft negative
“Navigation can feel clunky during updates, and the free version caps the number of clients.” Mistral Small · Global e-invoicing compl · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Invoice Ninja, over the 59 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Invoice Ninja was named but was not.
ShowHide
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Zoho Invoice42 of 5917Not among the top eight
Xero35 of 598Not among the top eight
Wave35 of 597Not among the top eight
FreshBooks31 of 599Not among the top eight
Square Invoices31 of 590Not among the top eight
QuickBooks19 of 594Not among the top eight
QuickBooks Online19 of 593Not among the top eight
Invoicely8 of 590Not among the top eight
Pagero7 of 592Not among the top eight
Sovos Compliance Network6 of 591Not 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 Invoice Ninja. 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 57 of the 59 answers that named Invoice Ninja and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com35
xero.com22
mindsprint.com20
thedigitalprojectmanager.com18
klippa.com15
nerdwallet.com14
worksbuddy.ai14
mercury.com13
sourceforge.net13
agiled.app12

176 of the 176 domain citations in answers naming Invoice Ninja came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

invoiceninja.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Invoice Ninja takes 2% of first choices and Avalara E-Invoicing takes 25%.
ShowHide

In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “e-invoicing platforms”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “e-invoicing compliance platform”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
4,400 a month (“invoice ninja”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
55 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 18,218 a month
Searches its site ranks for
1,390 · 115 in the top three
Sites linking to it
3,598
Paid Google search
No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
2%
rank 11 of 136 in global e-invoicing compl
Segment leader
25%
Avalara E-Invoicing
First choices
2 across its categories
Named in
59 answers
Its own site cited
in 57 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

ShowHide
Addresses on invoiceninja.com
10,016
subdomains included
Content
9,927
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
0 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Conference or event9,43732026-09-27
Blog47042026-09-01Invoicing software
Glossary or explainer1502023-07-08
Comparison302026-05-06
Case study102024-10-14
Webinar or virtual event102025-01-28

Most recent

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page invoiceninja.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 Invoice Ninja

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Invoice Ninja; a claim can dispute any of them.
Invoice Ninja / InvoiceBerry / Billdu 1

Follow Invoice Ninja

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

Invoice Ninja is its own company.
ShowHide

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Free invoicing software for freelancers & small businesses
For
freelancers and small businesses
Price stated
Free · Ninja Pro · Invoice Ninja Enterprise · Premium Business invoiceninja.com
Starting price
$0 invoiceninja.com
Free plan or trial
free plan, forever invoiceninja.com
Certifications
SOC 2 CompliancePCI-DSS compliancePCI ComplianceSOC 2PCI
Not stated on the pages read
Integrations, hosting, customers

What Invoice Ninja's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: invoiceninja.com, invoiceninja.com/pricing-plans, invoiceninja.com/features. 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 Invoice Ninja'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 Invoice Ninja, 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 Invoice Ninja by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Invoice Ninja 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 Invoice Ninja, 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.
The subscriber app

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at invoiceninja.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.