Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 7 → 8 of 32
2 categories · RankedKintsugi
24Judge labels
2First choices
2Negative labels
10 / 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 Sales tax automation for small business buyers
Rank 10 of 37 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business8 of 33
2%11 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market10 of 37
2%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise18 of 46
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
In sales tax automation · 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 Kintsugi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales tax automation | Tax and compliance | 2% | 10 of 37 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Avalara AvaTax at 32% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Global e-invoicing compliance | Tax and compliance | 0% | 71 of 136 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Avalara E-Invoicing at 25% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Kintsugi held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Sales tax automation · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 13 → 9 of 36
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 30 → 19 of 44
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales tax automation | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 13 → 10 of 37 |
| Global e-invoicing compl | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 71 of 136, 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 Kintsugi 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 Kintsugi 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 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 labels1
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained7 labels1
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative24 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.
“TaxCloud and Kintsugi offer the most attractive pricing for basic compliance needs.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Sales tax automation · budget prompt · first choice
“Other options include TaxJar and Kintsugi, which offer usage-based or free-tier plans.” Llama 4 Maverick · Sales tax automation · budget prompt · alternative
“Kintsugi for fast-growing businesses needing flexible, integrated solutions” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Global e-invoicing compl · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Another free or low-cost option that focuses on sales tax compliance” Mistral Small · Sales tax automation · 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Kintsugi, over the 24 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kintsugi was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Kintsugi, over the 24 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kintsugi 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 Kintsugi. 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 24 of the 24 answers that named Kintsugi and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
taxcloud.com18
zamp.com18
trykintsugi.comYour site14
galvix.com11
taxjar.com9
taxwire.com8
avalara.com7
g2.com7
guideflow.com7
stripe.com7
Ninety-two of the 106 domain citations in answers naming Kintsugi came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
trykintsugi.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Kintsugi takes 2% of first choices and Avalara AvaTax takes 32%.ShowHide
Search and answers
trykintsugi.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Kintsugi takes 2% of first choices and Avalara AvaTax takes 32%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “sales tax tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “sales tax compliance software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 90,500 a month (“kintsugi”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3,219 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 38,197 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 13,864 · 196 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 845
- Paid Google search
- 11 searches its ads show for, about 111 clicks and $1,359 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 10 of 37 in sales tax automation
Segment leader
32%
Avalara AvaTax
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 24 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 24 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 trykintsugi.com
1,112
subdomains included
Content
519
counted in the table below
Documentation
79
Product · Integration
14 · 47
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 322 | 34 | 2026-09-29 | Sales tax automation, Accounting software | |
| Template or tool | 77 | 0 | 2026-05-06 | ||
| Case study | 68 | 23 | 2026-09-02 | Sales tax automation | |
| Comparison | 29 | 7 | 2026-09-26 | Sales tax automation | |
| Glossary or explainer | 18 | 2 | 2026-09-26 | Sales tax automation | |
| Report or ebook | 5 | 1 | 2026-09-29 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Sales tax due dates blog
- 2026-09-29Product categories report or ebook
- 2026-09-27State of sales tax 2026 blog
- 2026-09-26Page No Longer Available comparison
- 2026-09-26Avalara alternatives comparison
- 2026-09-26California saas sales tax blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page trykintsugi.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 Kintsugi
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Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Kintsugi is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Kintsugi is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI Sales Tax Software: Monitor, Collect, File
- For
- For ecommerce, SaaS, and finance teams
- Price stated
- Flat-rate pricing, no lock-ins; Month-to-month, no per-transaction fees, implementation cost, or year-end overage. trykintsugi.com
- Starting price
- 0 trykintsugi.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Get started for free trykintsugi.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type IISOC2 Type II compliant
- Hosting
- 100+ Countries
- Customers named
- Costco&CollarKavuru Group Holdings LLCJMXiPluflEngagedMDInspiredResultsKarma and Luck
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What Kintsugi's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: trykintsugi.com, trykintsugi.com/pricing, trykintsugi.com/product/api, trykintsugi.com/partners. 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 Kintsugi'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 Kintsugi, 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 Kintsugi by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Kintsugi 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 Kintsugi, 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.