Every category where a model named Papaya Global 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
Contractor payments	Spend and procurement	2%	10 of 83	5%	19	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Papaya Global yet. 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 Papaya Global across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	0	1	3
Mistral Small	0	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1	0	2
Kimi K2	0	2	1	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	0	0	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

Direct6 labels3

Paraphrase17 labels4

Comparative21 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained7 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative11 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative65 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 17 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.

“Papaya Global: Best overall, with enterprise-grade payment infrastructure and payroll-level accuracy.” Llama 4 Maverick · Contractor payments · comparative prompt · first choice

“### 1. The Top Recommendation: Papaya Global” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Contractor payments · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Best for Enterprise-Grade Global Payouts... More robust (and pricier) than others.” Kimi K2 · Contractor payments · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“High reliability and accuracy for large organizations with complex payroll needs.” Mistral Small · Contractor payments · 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.

“Higher cost; overkill unless heavy payroll integration” Grok 4.1 Fast · Contractor payments · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Papaya Global, over the 65 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Papaya Global was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Deel53 of 6518Not in the top three

Tipalti38 of 656Not in the top three

Remote34 of 653Not in the top three

Rippling33 of 650Not in the top three

Payoneer28 of 650Not in the top three

Wise Business27 of 651Not in the top three

Gusto26 of 652Not in the top three

Worksuite24 of 654Not in the top three

Multiplier11 of 650Not in the top three

Routable10 of 652Not 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 Papaya Global. 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 59 of the 65 answers that named Papaya Global and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

contractor-of-record.com54

remote.com41

worksuite.com40

learn.g2.com35

papayaglobal.comYour site34

deel.com25

guideflow.com24

wise.com16

hr.software14

g2.com13

262 of the 296 domain citations in answers naming Papaya Global came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

contractor-of-record.com/software/contractor-payouts54

remote.com/blog/payroll/best-contractor-payment-tools36

worksuite.com/resources/insights/best-contractor-payment-software36

learn.g2.com/best-contractor-payment-software31

papayaglobal.com/blog/10-best-contractor-payment-software25

guideflow.com/blog/contractor-payment-software20

deel.com/blog/best-contractor-management-software-for-global-payments13

hr.software/reviews/trolley11

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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