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Patriot · 3 categories · Named, not ranked

Patriot Software

13Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

3Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Patriot Software was named 8 times in Contractor payments and 2 other categories, where Deel led with 27%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business43 of 73

under the label threshold

Mid-market13 of 83

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In contractor payments · 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 Patriot Software 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%	13 of 83	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Deel at 27%
Accounting software	Accounting and close	0%	25 of 56	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 40%
Invoicing software	Receivables and billing	0%	58 of 86	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wave at 19%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained10 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“I'd recommend starting with Patriot Software or Square Payroll since they have the lowest ongoing costs” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Contractor payments · budget prompt · first choice

“3. Patriot Software (Best Value with Promotions / Self-File)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Contractor payments · budget prompt · alternative

“Simple, unlimited payroll runs, free 1099 prep/tracking” Grok 4.1 Fast · Contractor payments · budget prompt · alternative

“PCMag named it the *"Most Affordable"* option” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Accounting software · 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 Patriot Software, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Patriot Software was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wave6 of 134Not in the top three

Xero6 of 130Not in the top three

Square Payroll5 of 132Not in the top three

Zoho Books5 of 132Not in the top three

FreshBooks5 of 130Not in the top three

Gusto5 of 130Not in the top three

Akaunting4 of 130Not in the top three

QuickBooks Online4 of 130Not in the top three

QuickBooks Contractor Payments3 of 131Not in the top three

GnuCash3 of 130Not 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 Patriot Software. 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 12 of the 13 answers that named Patriot Software and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

business.org5

gusto.com5

toolradar.com5

firsthr.app4

learn.g2.com4

pcmag.com4

relayfi.com4

wingspan.app4

worksuite.com4

finance.yahoo.com3

Forty-two of the forty-two domain citations in answers naming Patriot Software came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

learn.g2.com/best-contractor-payment-software4

pcmag.com/picks/the-best-small-business-accounting-software4

relayfi.com/blog/best-1099-software-small-businesses-guide4

toolradar.com/guides/cheapest-accounting-software4

wingspan.app/articles/best-contractor-payroll-services4

worksuite.com/resources/insights/best-contractor-payment-software4

finance.yahoo.com/news/best-budget-friendly-accounting-software-214919810.html3

firsthr.app/compare/payroll/best-1099-e-file-service3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Patriot Software

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Patriot Software; a claim can dispute any of them.

Patriot 2Patriot Payroll Basic 1Patriot Software Accounting 1

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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 patriotsoftware.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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