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Index › Products › Mastercard · October 2026 Edition

4 categories · Named, not ranked

Mastercard

8Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

6 / 14Models named it

4Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Mastercard was named 4 times in B2B payment acceptance and 3 other categories, where Versapay led with 19%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market56 of 94

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Mastercard 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	0%	56 of 94	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Versapay at 19%
Cross-border payments and FX	Treasury and cash	0%	49 of 87	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wise Business at 39%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
Embedded payments platforms	Receivables and billing	0%	69 of 110	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Stripe Connect at 53%
Stablecoin platforms	Treasury and cash	0%	75 of 141	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by BVNK at 23%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Mastercard yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Mastercard across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1
Mistral Small	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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 Mastercard, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Mastercard was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Stripe Connect3 of 82Not among the top eight

Adyen for Platforms3 of 80Not among the top eight

PayPal3 of 80Not among the top eight

Visa3 of 80Not among the top eight

BVNK2 of 81Not among the top eight

Wise Business2 of 81Not among the top eight

Adyen2 of 80Not among the top eight

Airwallex2 of 80Not among the top eight

Bridge2 of 80Not among the top eight

Coupa Pay2 of 80Not 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 Mastercard. 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 7 of the 8 answers that named Mastercard and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

airwallex.com2

circle.com2

dashdevs.com2

emergenresearch.com2

fitsmallbusiness.com2

highradius.com2

mastercard.comYour site2

openbankingtracker.com2

walletinvestor.com2

wise.com2

Eighteen of the twenty domain citations in answers naming Mastercard came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dashdevs.com/blog/embedded-finance-companies2

emergenresearch.com/blog/top-10-companies-by-competitive-position-in-the-global-b2b-paymen2

openbankingtracker.com/embedded-finance2

airwallex.com/en-us/blog/compare-embedded-finance-solutions1

airwallex.com/en-us/blog/cross-border-payment-services-solutions1

apidocs.bridge.xyz/1

arqfinance.com/en-CO/blog/your-money/mejores-plataformas-fintech-pagos-cross-border-20261

bancoli.com/blog/b2b-payments1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

What it publishes

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Addresses on mastercard.com

1,263

subdomains included

Content

117

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

2 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	62	undated
Glossary or explainer	36	undated
Report or ebook	16	13	2026-09-14
Webinar or virtual event	2	2	2026-09-14
Conference or event	1	1	2026-09-30

Most recent

2026-09-30Mastercard Dublin Tech Hub Discovering Agentic AI conference or event
2026-09-14Analyst Franchise Services report or ebook
2026-09-14Analyst Marketing report or ebook
2026-09-14Manager Product Management Payment Resiliency Stand In On Demand Decisioning webinar or virtual event
2026-09-14Analyst Account Management Data Analysis report or ebook
2026-09-14Analyst Account Management report or ebook

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page mastercard.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 Mastercard

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Mastercard; a claim can dispute any of them.

Visa/Mastercard 1

Follow Mastercard

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

Mastercard is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: A global technology company in the payments industry
mastercard.com
For: people, businesses and governments worldwide
mastercard.com
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Mastercard's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: mastercard.com. 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 Mastercard'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 Mastercard, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Mastercard by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Mastercard 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 Mastercard, 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.