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 31 of 32, unchanged
1 category · RankedSovos
82Judge labels
1First choices
11Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
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 enterprise buyers
Rank 15 of 37 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 6% of its 18 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Sovos →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business32 of 33
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market15 of 37
0%18 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise6 of 46
2%53 labels
accepted challenger
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 Sovos 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 | 0% | 15 of 37 | 6% | 18 | accepted 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, Sovos held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Sales tax automation · 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 11 → 14 of 36
Enterprise▲+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 10 → 6 of 44
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales tax automation | 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 11 → 15 of 37 |
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 Sovos 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 Sovos 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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
Direct16 labelsNone
Paraphrase8 labelsNone
Comparative20 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labelsNone
Scale-constrained14 labels1
Negative15 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative82 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.
“Choose Sovos if you need enterprise compliance, reporting, and filing workflows in one system.” Perplexity Sonar · Sales tax automation · comparative prompt · alternative
“a strong alternative if your priority is broad compliance and enterprise ERP integrations” GPT-5.4 mini · Sales tax automation · direct prompt · alternative
“Prioritize tools like Avalara, TaxJar (Stripe), TaxCloud, Vertex, or Sovos” Grok 4.1 Fast · Sales tax automation · scale prompt · alternative
“Best for: Companies needing e-invoicing and regulatory compliance” MiniMax M2.5 · Sales tax automation · direct 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.
“If your business is doing under $10M–$20M in revenue, avoid these tools.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Sales tax automation · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Sovos, over the 82 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sovos was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Sovos, over the 82 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sovos 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 Sovos. 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 80 of the 82 answers that named Sovos and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
taxcloud.com53
avalara.com43
zamp.com41
guideflow.com39
taxwire.com36
g2.com32
commenda.io29
learn.g2.com27
taxjar.com25
galvix.com23
348 of the 348 domain citations in answers naming Sovos came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
sovos.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Sovos takes 0% of first choices and Avalara AvaTax takes 32%.ShowHide
Search and answers
sovos.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Sovos takes 0% 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”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 3,600 a month (“sovos”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 220 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 95,951 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 7,500 · 362 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 4,415
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 11 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 15 of 37 in sales tax automation
Segment leader
32%
Avalara AvaTax
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 82 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 80 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
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on sovos.com
10,000
subdomains included
Content
3,588
counted in the table below
Documentation
3
Product · Integration
49 · 1
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 2,835 | 20 | 2026-09-28 | Accounts payable automat, Procure-to-pay | |
| Conference or event | 230 | 17 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| News or press | 228 | 0 | 2021-03-29 | Sales tax automation | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 158 | 13 | 2026-09-28 | Procure-to-pay | |
| Case study | 50 | 0 | 2023-03-29 | ||
| Report or ebook | 24 | 0 | 2025-11-17 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 24 | 0 | 2025-06-23 | ||
| Comparison | 23 | 1 | 2026-07-06 | ||
| Template or tool | 13 | 0 | 2024-08-22 | ||
| Podcast or video | 3 | 0 | 2024-11-14 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Sustainability report 2026 responsible ai blog
- 2026-09-28Spain e invoicing global compliance webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-23Tax reform dere webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-22Agentic compliant finance introduction blog
- 2026-09-22Vat intrastat changes europe webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-17Poland ksef penalty relief 2027 extension blog
Events in person
Upcoming
- October 18, 2026 to October 21, 2026TEI Annual ConferenceGrand Hyatt Nashville, Nashville, US · attends
- November 17, 2026Tax Compliance Summit ParisLe Cercle d'Aumale, Paris, France · hosts
Last twelve months
- June 17, 2026Sovos Always On: MumbaiITC Maratha Near International Airport, Andheri (east), Mumbai, Mumbai, India · hosted
- November 19, 2025Tax Compliance Summit Sovos Always On: ParisLa Fabrique République, 52 ter Rue des Vinaigriers, 75010 Paris, Paris · hosted
As the event pages on sovos.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page sovos.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 Sovos
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Sovos; a claim can dispute any of them.
Sovos Taxify 1
Follow Sovos
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
Sovos is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Sovos is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Always-On Tax Compliance
- For
- businesses worldwide
- Certifications
- certificaciones de ventascertificaciones técnicascertificaciones de implementacióncertificaciones de conectores
- Customers named
- PhilipsNationwideHyundai Motor AmericaUS ManufacturerCostco
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What Sovos's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: sovos.com, sovos.com/products, sovos.com/case-studies, sovos.com/es/partners. 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 Sovos'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 Sovos, 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 Sovos by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Sovos 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 Sovos, 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.