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QuickBooks Contractor Payments

16Judge labels

3First choices

1Negative labels

11 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

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. QuickBooks Contractor Payments was named 6 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 business7 of 73

under the label threshold

Mid-market9 of 83

under the label threshold

Enterprise32 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 QuickBooks Contractor Payments 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	5%	9 of 83	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by Deel at 27%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
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	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	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

Direct7 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained9 labels3

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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 overall value: QuickBooks Contractor Payments — $15/month” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Contractor payments · budget prompt · first choice

“QuickBooks for 5-20 contractors (best per-contractor rate)” Kimi K2 · Contractor payments · budget prompt · first choice

“Great if you already use QuickBooks for accounting. Includes unlimited 1099 e-filing” Grok 4.1 Fast · Contractor payments · budget prompt · alternative

“If you need accounting integration and already use QuickBooks” MiniMax M2.5 · Contractor payments · 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.

“They lack the sophisticated bulk processing and deep ERP integration found in Tipalti or Routable.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Contractor payments · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as QuickBooks Contractor Payments, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and QuickBooks Contractor Payments was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Gusto14 of 164Not in the top three

Square Payroll8 of 164Not in the top three

Deel7 of 160Not in the top three

Tipalti6 of 161Not in the top three

Wingspan4 of 161Not in the top three

Routable3 of 161Not in the top three

ADP3 of 160Not in the top three

Patriot Software3 of 160Not in the top three

Paychex3 of 160Not in the top three

QuickBooks Payroll3 of 160Not 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 QuickBooks Contractor Payments. 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 15 of the 16 answers that named QuickBooks Contractor Payments and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

worksuite.com13

wingspan.app12

remote.com9

learn.g2.com8

firsthr.app7

gusto.com7

relayfi.com7

riseworks.io6

contractor-of-record.com5

beanninjas.com4

Seventy-eight of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming QuickBooks Contractor Payments came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

worksuite.com/resources/insights/best-contractor-payment-software13

wingspan.app/articles/best-contractor-payroll-services12

remote.com/blog/payroll/best-contractor-payment-tools9

learn.g2.com/best-contractor-payment-software8

relayfi.com/blog/best-1099-software-small-businesses-guide7

firsthr.app/compare/payroll/contractor-payroll6

riseworks.io/blog/best-payroll-providers-for-automated-contractor-payments-and-1099s6

contractor-of-record.com/software/contractor-payouts5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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