When asked for the best budgeting app, 5 AI assistants named 6 brands between them this month. FreshBooks was named most often, followed by QuickBooks Online and Xero. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreshBooks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 4 of 5 |
| QuickBooks Online | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 5 |
| Xero | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 5 |
| Wave | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | 3 of 5 |
| Ramp | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | 2 of 5 |
| YNAB | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | 2 of 5 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 4 brands, in this order: QuickBooks Online, FreshBooks, Xero, Wave.
Choosing the best budgeting app for a small business depends on several factors, including the specific needs of the business, the features offered by the app, and personal preferences.
Perplexity
Named 4 brands, in this order: QuickBooks Online, Ramp, FreshBooks, YNAB.
The best budgeting app for a small business depends on what you need most: all-in-one accounting, cash-flow control, or a free basic tool.
Claude
Named 4 brands, in this order: FreshBooks, Wave, Xero, YNAB.
Here are some top options depending on your needs:
Grok
Named 3 brands, in this order: QuickBooks Online, Xero, FreshBooks.
DeepSeek
Named 4 brands, in this order: Xero, QuickBooks Online, Wave, Ramp.
There's no single "best" budgeting app for a small business — it depends on whether you need simple expense tracking, full accounting, cash-flow forecasting, or invoicing + books in one.
The questions asked
- What is the best budgeting app for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral, Cohere.
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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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