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 24 → 22 of 38
3 categories · Named, not rankedZipBooks
6Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
5 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
5 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. ZipBooks was named 5 times in Accounting software and 2 other categories, where Sage Intacct led with 44%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business22 of 39
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market17 of 55
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
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 ZipBooks 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% | 17 of 55 | 0% | 2 | 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. |
| Financial reporting and dashboards | Planning and analysis | 0% | 43 of 105 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 33% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Account reconciliation | Accounting and close | 0% | 76 of 82 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by FloQast at 33% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, ZipBooks held within the floor in all three 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 17 → 16 of 50
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 17 of 55, unchanged |
| Financial reporting | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 43 of 105, unchanged |
| Account reconciliation | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 76 of 82, 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 ZipBooks 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 ZipBooks 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained5 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.
“offering a free plan and affordable paid options, making it ideal for businesses on a tight budget” Mistral Small · Financial reporting · budget prompt · alternative
“Free plan available; paid plans start around $15/month ... Excellent for invoicing” Kimi K2 · Accounting software · budget prompt · alternative
“QuickBooks Online and ZipBooks are excellent alternatives” Mistral Small · Accounting software · 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 ZipBooks, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ZipBooks was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as ZipBooks, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ZipBooks 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 ZipBooks. 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 4 of the 6 answers that named ZipBooks and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
business.org2
thecfoclub.com2
airwallex.com1
au.pcmag.com1
bluecopa.com1
business.com1
capterra.com1
cnbc.com1
fool.com1
forbes.com1
Twelve of the twelve domain citations in answers naming ZipBooks came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
zipbooks.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, ZipBooks takes 0% of first choices and Sage Intacct takes 44%.ShowHide
Search and answers
zipbooks.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, ZipBooks takes 0% of first choices and Sage Intacct takes 44%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “accounting software”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “accounting platforms”
5
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 17 of 55 in accounting software
Segment leader
44%
Sage Intacct
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 6 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 4 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 zipbooks.com
215
subdomains included
Content
41
counted in the table below
Documentation
168
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 36 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 4 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page zipbooks.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 ZipBooks
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
ZipBooks is its own company.ShowHide
The company
ZipBooks is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Simple accounting software that makes you even smarter.
- Customers named
- Digital Craft Co.Illuminate DesignBonnie Cohen-Gallet, EsqBranding AddictsQuirky Print & Design Studio
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What ZipBooks's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: zipbooks.com. 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 ZipBooks'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 ZipBooks, 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 ZipBooks by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where ZipBooks 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 ZipBooks, 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.