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1 category · Named, not ranked

Paychex

5Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

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

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Paychex was named 2 times in Contractor payments, 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 business57 of 73

under the label threshold

Mid-market62 of 83

under the label threshold

Enterprise59 of 76

under the label threshold

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 Paychex 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	0%	62 of 83	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Deel at 27%

Movement

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

Model	Mention	Negative	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	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Some platforms charge extra for 1099 filing (ADP, Paychex)” Kimi K2 · Contractor payments · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Paychex, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Paychex was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Gusto5 of 51Not in the top three

ADP4 of 50Not in the top three

QuickBooks Contractor Payments3 of 51Not in the top three

Deel3 of 50Not in the top three

Remote3 of 50Not in the top three

Routable3 of 50Not in the top three

Wingspan3 of 50Not in the top three

Square Payroll2 of 52Not in the top three

WorkMarket1 of 51Not in the top three

Found1 of 50Not 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 Paychex. 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 5 of the 5 answers that named Paychex and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

wingspan.app5

worksuite.com5

gusto.com4

routable.com3

contractor-of-record.com2

firsthr.app2

guideflow.com2

learn.g2.com2

relayfi.com2

remote.com2

Twenty-nine of the twenty-nine domain citations in answers naming Paychex came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

wingspan.app/articles/best-contractor-payroll-services5

worksuite.com/resources/insights/best-contractor-payment-software5

gusto.com/resources/best-contractor-payroll-software3

routable.com/resources/best-1099-automation-platforms-high-volume-businesses3

contractor-of-record.com/software/contractor-payouts2

firsthr.app/compare/payroll/contractor-payroll2

gusto.com/resources/guides/best-contractor-payroll-software2

learn.g2.com/best-contractor-payment-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Paychex

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

ADP / Paychex 1

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Paychex's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Paychex, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.