When asked for the best revenue-based financing provider, 6 AI assistants named 6 brands between them this month. Clearco was named most often, followed by Lighter Capital and Capchase. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clearco | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Lighter Capital | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 4 of 6 |
| Capchase | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | 2 of 6 |
| Fundbox | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Pipe | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
| Wayflyer | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 3 brands, in this order: Clearco, Wayflyer, Lighter Capital.
Choosing the best revenue-based financing provider for a small business depends on your specific business needs, industry, and financial situation.
Perplexity
Named one brand, in this order: Fundbox.
There is no single universally best revenue-based financing provider for every small business; the best choice depends on your revenue stability, industry, funding speed, and how transparent you want repayment terms to be.
Claude
Named 4 brands, in this order: Clearco, Pipe, Capchase, Lighter Capital.
Here are some of the top options to consider, depending on your needs:
Grok
Named 2 brands, in this order: Clearco, Capchase.
Here are the most commonly used options for smaller businesses, based on volume and feedback:
DeepSeek
Named 5 brands, in this order: Clearco, Wayflyer, Pipe, Fundbox, Lighter Capital.
There's no single "best" revenue-based financing provider — the right fit depends on your business type, monthly revenue, how fast you need funds, and what you're willing to pay.
Cohere
Named 2 brands, in this order: Lighter Capital, Clearco.
Choosing the best revenue-based financing (RBF) provider for a small business depends on several factors, including the business's industry, revenue, growth rate, and specific needs.
The questions asked
- What is the best revenue-based financing provider 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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