Small business=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 13 → 8 of 97
TaxSlayer
20Judge labels
4First choices
2Negative labels
10 / 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
4% in Corporate tax provision for small business buyers
Rank 7 of 102 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 6 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business5 of 108
4%13 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market7 of 102
4%6 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise93 of 95
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In corporate tax provision · 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 TaxSlayer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate tax provision | Tax and compliance | 4% | 7 of 102 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Tax Provision at 21% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, TaxSlayer held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Corporate tax provision · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 12 → 6 of 94
EnterprisenewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 86 of 88, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate tax provision | 2% | 4% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 12 → 7 of 102 |
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 TaxSlayer 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 TaxSlayer 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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
Direct4 labels1
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained12 labels3
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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 best fit is usually TaxSlayer Pro because it is described as an affordable, straightforward option” Perplexity Sonar · Corporate tax provision · budget prompt · first choice
“TaxAct and TaxSlayer are frequently recommended as the top affordable options” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Corporate tax provision · budget prompt · first choice
“TaxSlayer Pro offers a good balance of cost and guided workflow.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Corporate tax provision · budget prompt · alternative
“Other low-cost alternatives: TaxSlayer Pro or TaxAct Professional” Grok 4.1 Fast · Corporate tax provision · 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 TaxSlayer, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TaxSlayer was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as TaxSlayer, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TaxSlayer 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 TaxSlayer. 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 20 of the 20 answers that named TaxSlayer and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
zipdo.co16
worldmetrics.org15
pickmysoft.com14
guideflow.com12
thecfoclub.com10
gitnux.org9
us.fitgap.com9
itechguides.com7
wifitalents.com7
capterra.com6
No domain is on file for TaxSlayer, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where TaxSlayer stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where TaxSlayer stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 110,000 a month (“taxslayer”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 937 a month
- Its own site
- No site of its own on file, so no site figures
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 7 of 102 in corporate tax provision
Segment leader
21%
Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Tax Provision
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 20 answers
- Its own site cited
- No site on file to match
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.
Names read as TaxSlayer
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as TaxSlayer; a claim can dispute any of them.
TaxSlayer Pro 4
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for TaxSlayer by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where TaxSlayer 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 TaxSlayer, 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.