When asked for the best accounting software for small business, 6 AI assistants named 5 brands between them this month. FreshBooks was named most often, followed by QuickBooks Online and Xero. 3 brands were named by every assistant that answered: FreshBooks, QuickBooks Online, Xero.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreshBooks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| QuickBooks Online | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Xero | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Wave | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Zoho Books | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 5 brands, in this order: QuickBooks Online, Xero, FreshBooks, Wave, Zoho Books.
Choosing the best accounting software for a small business depends on the specific needs and preferences of the business.
Perplexity
Named 5 brands, in this order: QuickBooks Online, Xero, Zoho Books, FreshBooks, Wave.
For most small businesses, QuickBooks Online is the best overall accounting software choice.
Claude
Named 5 brands, in this order: QuickBooks Online, FreshBooks, Xero, Wave, Zoho Books.
Here are the top options to consider:
Grok
Named 3 brands, in this order: QuickBooks Online, Xero, FreshBooks.
DeepSeek
Named 5 brands, in this order: QuickBooks Online, Xero, FreshBooks, Wave, Zoho Books.
The "best" accounting software depends on your specific needs, but for most small businesses, the top recommendations come down to a few key players.
Cohere
Named 3 brands, in this order: QuickBooks Online, Xero, FreshBooks.
Choosing the best accounting software for a small business depends on your specific needs, such as budget, industry, features required, and ease of use.
The questions asked
- What is the best accounting software for small business for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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