Every category where a model named Zoho Books 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
IT financial management	IT operations and endpoint	2%	16 of 159	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Zoho Books yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Zoho Books across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained10 labels3

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“Best Overall for Small / Limited Budgets ... Zoho Books (or Wave if you need 100% free)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IT financial mgmt · budget prompt · first choice

“Zoho Books if you want the most affordable option with solid features” MiniMax M2.5 · IT financial mgmt · budget prompt · alternative

“Best low-cost accounting alternative: Zoho Books” Perplexity Sonar · IT financial mgmt · budget prompt · alternative

“Zoho free under $50K revenue; add-ons cheap” Grok 4.1 Fast · IT financial mgmt · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Zoho Books, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Zoho Books was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

QuickBooks Online12 of 174Not among the top eight

Xero8 of 171Not among the top eight

Wave7 of 171Not among the top eight

Ramp6 of 173Not among the top eight

FreshBooks5 of 170Not among the top eight

CloudZero4 of 172Not among the top eight

QuickBooks4 of 171Not among the top eight

IBM Apptio Cloudability4 of 170Not among the top eight

Expensify3 of 170Not among the top eight

Flexera One3 of 170Not among the top eight

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 Zoho Books. 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 15 of the 17 answers that named Zoho Books and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

qobra.co13

ramp.com11

au.pcmag.com6

devopsschool.com6

rho.co6

softwareconnect.com6

thectoclub.com6

clickup.com5

kissflow.com5

softwareadvice.com5

No domain is on file for Zoho Books, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

qobra.co/blog/best-financial-management-software13

ramp.com/blog/finance-as-a-service-faas-top-tools-for-modern-finance-teams10

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-it-financial-management-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison6

thectoclub.com/tools/best-it-financial-management-software6

clickup.com/blog/small-business-budgeting-software5

kissflow.com/finance/finance-management-software5

rho.co/blog/financial-management-software5

au.pcmag.com/smb-accounting/108890/the-best-budget-friendly-accounting-software-for-small-4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Zoho Books stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 27,100 a month (“zoho books”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 268 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 16 of 159 in IT financial mgmt

Segment leader

Nicus ITFM Platform

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 17 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

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.

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where Zoho Books 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 Zoho Books, 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.