Accounting software: what AI recommends, Citewake Edition 2 (collected 29–30 Oct 2026)

What ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity recommend for accounting software, Citewake Edition 2 (collected 29–30 Oct 2026): 60 buyer questions asked with web search on, 240 of 240 answers valid. Most recommended: Xero (70%), QuickBooks Online (63%), Zoho Books (32%). Method v0.9, benchmark v1. Status: complete. 30 cited pages the page reader was unsure of were not ruled on within the edition's budget and count for nothing. Data: one row per question and AI, with the answer, the searches it ran, the pages it found and cited, and the brands it named. Citewake is an independent research lab.