Index › Vendors › Orb · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Orb

17Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

9 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Orb was named 7 times in Billing, where Chargebee led with 58%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business48 of 67

under the label threshold

Mid-market15 of 57

under the label threshold

Enterprise11 of 53

under the label threshold

In billing · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Orb 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
Billing and subscription management	Revenue operations	0%	15 of 57	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Chargebee at 58%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Orb yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	2

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

Comparative9 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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 for: AI companies and usage-based pricing with complex consumption models” Mistral Small · Billing · comparative prompt · alternative

“Metronome and Orb are purpose-built modern metering and billing engines.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Billing · direct prompt · alternative

“Usage-based models: Look at Metronome or Orb specifically” MiniMax M2.5 · Billing · negative prompt · alternative

“Orb provides phenomenal real-time developer ergonomics” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Billing · comparative 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 Orb, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Orb was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Chargebee17 of 175Not in the top three

Stripe Billing16 of 174Not in the top three

Zuora14 of 177Not in the top three

Metronome12 of 170Not in the top three

Recurly12 of 170Not in the top three

Maxio11 of 170Not in the top three

Paddle11 of 170Not in the top three

BillingPlatform5 of 170Not in the top three

FastSpring4 of 170Not in the top three

Lago4 of 170Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Orb. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 3 of the 17 answers that named Orb and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

solidgate.com3

whop.com3

younium.com3

connectpay.com2

hyperline.co2

learn.g2.com2

upflow.io2

withorb.com2

zoneandco.com2

billingplatform.com1

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

Pages cited

solidgate.com/blog/best-subscription-billing-software3

whop.com/blog/subscription-billing-software3

younium.com/blog/subscription-billing-platforms3

connectpay.com/blog/recurring-payment-software2

learn.g2.com/best-subscription-management-software2

upflow.io/blog/saas-finance/saas-best-billing-software2

zoneandco.com/articles/20-best-subscription-billing-platforms-for-different-use-cases2

billingplatform.com/1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at the vendor's own domain is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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