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3 categories · Named, not ranked

Paylocity

10Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

9 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. Paylocity was named 8 times in Expense management and 2 other categories, where Ramp led with 34%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market15 of 46

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In expense management · 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 Paylocity 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
Expense management	Spend and procurement	0%	15 of 46	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Ramp at 34%
Business bill pay	Treasury and cash	0%	34 of 69	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by BILL at 35%
Supplier management	Spend and procurement	0%	42 of 80	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Procurify at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Paylocity 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 Paylocity 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	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 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.

“supports mid-market teams by combining AI-powered receipt capture, direct card feeds, mileage tracking, and policy automation within one platform” Llama 4 Maverick · Expense management · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“if you want vendor management embedded in a broader HR/finance platform for midsize companies” Perplexity Sonar · Supplier management · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Companies already using Paylocity for HR and payroll.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Expense management · direct 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 Paylocity, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Paylocity was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ramp7 of 102Not in the top three

Expensify5 of 101Not in the top three

Spendesk4 of 102Not in the top three

Navan4 of 101Not in the top three

SAP Concur4 of 101Not in the top three

Rippling Spend3 of 101Not in the top three

Brex3 of 100Not in the top three

BILL2 of 101Not in the top three

Coupa2 of 101Not in the top three

Airbase2 of 100Not 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 Paylocity. 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 10 of the 10 answers that named Paylocity and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com6

paylocity.comYour site6

ramp.com6

learn.g2.com5

bill.com4

airwallex.com3

navan.com3

technologyadvice.com3

gitnux.org2

ofx.com2

Thirty-four of the forty domain citations in answers naming Paylocity came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/expense-management-software5

learn.g2.com/expense-management-software-for-mid-market-teams4

paylocity.com/why-paylocity/compare/lists/best-expense-management-software4

technologyadvice.com/blog/accounting/best-expense-management-software3

bill.com/blog/best-expense-management-software2

gitnux.org/best/employee-expense-reporting-software2

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

navan.com/blog/best-expense-management-software2

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

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