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 114 → 122 of 158
4 categories · RankedZycus
71Judge labels
0First choices
5Negative labels
14 / 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.
Best standing
0% in Strategic sourcing for enterprise buyers
Rank 21 of 128 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 12% of its 8 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business129 of 166
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market21 of 128
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise11 of 77
0%15 labels
accepted challenger
In strategic sourcing · 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 Zycus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic sourcing | Spend and procurement | 0% | 21 of 128 | 12% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by oboloo at 15% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Procure-to-pay | Spend and procurement | 0% | 22 of 87 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 42% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Supplier management | Spend and procurement | 0% | 29 of 111 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Precoro at 14% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Global e-invoicing compliance | Tax and compliance | 0% | 27 of 136 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Avalara E-Invoicing at 25% | =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, Zycus held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Strategic sourcing · 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 20 → 21 of 120
Enterprise▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 5 → 9 of 63
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strategic sourcing | 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 20 → 21 of 128 |
| Procure-to-pay | 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 29 → 22 of 87 |
| Supplier management | 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 52 → 29 of 111 |
| 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 80 → 27 of 136 |
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 Zycus 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 Zycus 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct17 labelsNone
Paraphrase7 labelsNone
Comparative29 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained10 labelsNone
Negative5 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative71 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 2 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 enterprise platforms like Zycus, ClearTax, or SAP Ariba if you need mandate compliance across countries” Perplexity Sonar · Global e-invoicing compl · comparative prompt · first choice
“Offer enterprise-grade capabilities ... packaged in a scaled-down, quicker-to-deploy format designed specifically for mid-sized procurement teams.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Strategic sourcing · scale prompt · alternative
“AI-Native Full S2P Best-in-Class | Native multi-format ingestion across 60+ country mandates” Muse Glimmer 30B · Global e-invoicing compl · comparative prompt · alternative
“Zycus: A solution that offers automated invoice processing and compliance maintenance” Llama 4 Maverick · Global e-invoicing compl · 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.
“like SAP Ariba, Coupa, or Zycus) are often prohibitively expensive, complex, and slow to implement” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Strategic sourcing · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Zycus, over the 71 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Zycus was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Zycus, over the 71 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Zycus 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 Zycus. 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 63 of the 71 answers that named Zycus and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
g2.com26
zycus.comYour site25
guideflow.com24
mindsprint.com23
spendflo.com20
gartner.com15
gitnux.org14
sourceforge.net14
highradius.com13
zipdo.co13
162 of the 187 domain citations in answers naming Zycus came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
zycus.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Zycus takes 0% of first choices and oboloo takes 15%.ShowHide
Search and answers
zycus.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Zycus takes 0% of first choices and oboloo takes 15%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “sourcing tools”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “strategic sourcing software”
7
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,400 a month (“zycus”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 49 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 23,901 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 6,746 · 242 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,191
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 21 of 128 in strategic sourcing
Segment leader
15%
oboloo
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 71 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 63 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 zycus.com
4,423
subdomains included
Content
3,889
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
177 · 3
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,219 | 10 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 887 | 2 | 2026-09-19 | ||
| Report or ebook | 438 | 11 | 2026-09-25 | ||
| News or press | 437 | 0 | 2023-01-30 | ||
| Podcast or video | 389 | 1 | 2026-08-18 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 256 | 8 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Case study | 95 | 0 | 2026-02-04 | ||
| Comparison | 72 | 0 | 2026-03-26 | ||
| Conference or event | 59 | 2 | 2026-07-24 | ||
| Template or tool | 37 | 2 | 2026-08-26 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Supplier rationalization ai sourcing demo webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-28Off portal buying controls blog
- 2026-09-28Which catalog fields decide whether intake works blog
- 2026-09-28Procurement intake pilot categories blog
- 2026-09-28What should a procurement intake form have blog
- 2026-09-25Procurement data readiness autonomous negotiation report or ebook
Events in person
Last twelve months
- September 21, 2026 to September 23, 2026Horizon US 2026The Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch, Beaver Creek, United States · took part
- June 25, 2026Agentic AI in Procurement: From Insights to ActionThe One Restaurant, Toronto, Canada · took part
- June 16, 2026AI World Tour 2026 Paris EditionMarriott Opera Ambassador, Paris · took part
- June 4, 2026AI World Tour 2026 LondonEY office, London
- June 2, 2026AI World Tour 2026 LuxembourgLe Royal Hotels & Resorts, Luxembourg
- May 28, 2026AI World Tour 2026 AmsterdamAmstel Hotel, Amsterdam
- May 7, 2026AI World Tour 2026 MunichEy Office, Munich
As the event pages on zycus.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page zycus.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 Zycus
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Zycus; a claim can dispute any of them.
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The company
Zycus is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Zycus is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Autonomous Procurement from Intake to Outcomes
- For
- enterprises
- Price stated
- Merlin ANA uses a consumption-based pricing model aligned with tail spend volume — not per-user seat licenses. Pricing is calculated based on the number of tail spend Purchase Orders processed annually. The target cost is approximately $15 per PO — a significant reduction from the industry average of $200–$500 per manually processed PO. zycus.com/solution/merlin-ana
- Starting price
- 15 zycus.com/solution/merlin-ana
- Integrations claimed
- 3 zycus.com
- Hosting
- United StatesAPACEMEAIndia
- Customers named
- Kerzner InternationalDeltaPorscheNetSuiteVistaprintSelectaSIRVARegeneron
- Not stated on the pages read
- Free plan or trial, certifications
What Zycus's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: zycus.com, zycus.com/glossary/compliance, zycus.com/solution/merlin-ana, zycus.com/customers, zycus.com/company/partners. 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 Zycus'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 Zycus, 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 Zycus by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Zycus 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 Zycus, 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.