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 35 of 38, unchanged
11 categories · RankedSage
54Judge labels
0First choices
15Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
11Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Accounting software for mid-market buyers
Rank 11 of 55 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 business27 of 39
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market11 of 55
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise43 of 63
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In accounting software · 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 Sage 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting software | Accounting and close | 0% | 11 of 55 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 44% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| ERP systems | Accounting and close | 0% | 33 of 73 | 29% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Oracle NetSuite at 39% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Account reconciliation | Accounting and close | 0% | 27 of 82 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by FloQast at 33% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Invoicing software | Receivables and billing | 0% | 57 of 71 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Invoice at 24% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Accounts receivable automation | Receivables and billing | 0% | 71 of 79 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Upflow at 17% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Cash application | Receivables and billing | 0% | 64 of 83 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Versapay at 9% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Financial reporting and dashboards | Planning and analysis | 0% | 78 of 105 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 33% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Global e-invoicing compliance | Tax and compliance | 0% | 107 of 136 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Avalara E-Invoicing at 25% | goneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026. |
| Lease accounting | Accounting and close | 0% | 55 of 71 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by FinQuery at 29% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Supplier management | Spend and procurement | 0% | 99 of 111 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Precoro at 14% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Treasury management systems | Treasury and cash | 0% | 75 of 124 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Trovata at 28% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Sage held within the floor in all eleven categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Accounting software · by segment
Mid-market=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 39 → 11 of 50
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 38 → 39 of 58
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting software | 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 39 → 11 of 55 |
| ERP systems | 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 39 → 33 of 73 |
| Account reconciliation | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 27 of 82, unchanged |
| Invoicing software | 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 24 → 57 of 71 |
| Accounts receivable auto | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 71 of 79, unchanged |
| Cash application | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 64 of 83, unchanged |
| Financial reporting | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 78 of 105, unchanged |
| Global e-invoicing compl | 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 85 → 107 of 136 |
| Lease accounting | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 55 of 71, unchanged |
| Supplier management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 99 of 111, unchanged |
| Treasury management syst | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 75 of 124, 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 Sage 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 Sage 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase6 labelsNone
Comparative11 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained11 labelsNone
Negative16 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative54 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.
“The major platforms (QuickBooks, Xero, FreshBooks, Wave, Zoho Books, Sage) all hold SOC 2 Type II certification” MiniMax M2.5 · Accounting software · negative prompt · alternative
“Sage worth considering if you want something more mid-market-focused and simpler to adopt” GPT-5.4 mini · ERP systems · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Sage starts at $10/month and is the lowest-cost paid option among full-featured platforms” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Accounting software · budget prompt · alternative
“Choose Sage if you anticipate complex growth or need enterprise-level features” Kimi K2 · Accounting software · comparative 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.
“older Sage lines... essentially on life support with no modern integrations” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ERP systems · negative prompt · hard negative
“can be a reasonable mid-market choice, but not typically the cheapest path” GPT-5.4 mini · ERP systems · budget prompt · soft negative
“Not ideal for small businesses; heavier and more complex” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Invoicing software · comparative prompt · soft negative
“ERP-native vendor portals are notoriously rigid.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Supplier management · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Sage, over the 54 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sage was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Sage, over the 54 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sage 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 Sage. 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 46 of the 54 answers that named Sage and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
forbes.com16
erpresearch.com10
techrepublic.com10
softwareadvice.com9
xero.com9
netsuite.com8
resources.rework.com8
bill.com7
g2.com7
randgroup.com7
Ninety-one of the ninety-one domain citations in answers naming Sage came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
sage.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Sage takes 0% of first choices and Sage Intacct takes 44%.ShowHide
Search and answers
sage.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Sage takes 0% of first choices and Sage Intacct takes 44%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “accounting software”
1
Position for “accounting platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 246,000 a month (“sage”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 90,599 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,737,127 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 73,487 · 4,719 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 36,428
- Paid Google search
- 125 searches its ads show for, about 2,544 clicks and $114,671 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 11 of 55 in accounting software
Segment leader
44%
Sage Intacct
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 54 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 46 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 sage.com
354
subdomains included
Content
246
counted in the table below
Documentation
3
Product · Integration
13 · 11
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 86 | undated | |||
| News or press | 72 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 48 | undated | |||
| Case study | 22 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 7 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 7 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 3 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
Events in person
Last twelve months
- November 10, 2025 to November 12, 2025Trimble Dimensions User ConferenceLas Vegas, United States · exhibited
- October 14, 2025 to October 16, 2025Procore GroundbreakHouston, United States · exhibited
As the event pages on sage.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page sage.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 Sage
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Sage; a claim can dispute any of them.
Sage 300 1Sage Accounting / Sage Business Cloud 1Sage Intacct / Sage 100 1
Follow Sage
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The company
Sage is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Sage is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Sage Business Management Software and Solutions
- For
- finance teams
- Price stated
- Request pricing sage.com
- Certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001ISO 27001
- Customers named
- HigginbothamCambio CommunitiesWorksightedOperation HopeLPGAByler HoldingsOrion CompaniesAgemark Senior Living
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Sage's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: sage.com, trust.sage.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 Sage'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 Sage, 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 Sage by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Sage 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 Sage, 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.