When asked for the best invoicing software, 6 AI assistants named 7 brands between them this month. FreshBooks was named most often, followed by QuickBooks and Wave. 2 brands were named by every assistant that answered: FreshBooks, QuickBooks.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreshBooks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| QuickBooks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 6 of 6 |
| Wave | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 5 of 6 |
| QuickBooks Online | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Xero | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Zoho Invoice | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 4 of 6 |
| Square Invoices | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 7 brands, in this order: QuickBooks, QuickBooks Online, FreshBooks, Zoho Invoice, Wave, Xero, Square Invoices.
Choosing the best invoicing software for a small business depends on your specific needs, such as the scale of your business, industry, and desired features.
Perplexity
Named 6 brands, in this order: Zoho Invoice, QuickBooks, Xero, FreshBooks, Square Invoices, Wave.
There is no single best invoicing software for every small business; the right choice depends on whether you want the strongest *free plan*, the easiest setup, or the best all-in-one accounting features.
Claude
Named 4 brands, in this order: FreshBooks, QuickBooks, Wave, Zoho Invoice.
Here are some top options depending on your needs:
Grok
Named 4 brands, in this order: FreshBooks, Wave, QuickBooks, QuickBooks Online.
The "best" invoicing software depends on your specific needs (budget, number of clients, whether you need full accounting, payment processing, etc.), but here are the top recommendations for small businesses based on ease of use, features, pricing, and user reviews in 2024:
DeepSeek
Named 6 brands, in this order: FreshBooks, Wave, QuickBooks, QuickBooks Online, Xero, Zoho Invoice.
There's no single "best" invoicing software — the right choice depends on your business type, budget, and whether you need just invoicing or full accounting.
Cohere
Named 4 brands, in this order: QuickBooks, QuickBooks Online, FreshBooks, Xero.
Choosing the best invoicing software for a small business depends on your specific needs, such as budget, features, ease of use, and scalability.
The questions asked
- What is the best invoicing software 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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