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QuickBooks Payroll

8Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

7 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

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. QuickBooks Payroll was named 1 time 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 business19 of 73

under the label threshold

Mid-market68 of 83

under the label threshold

Enterprise36 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 Payroll 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%	68 of 83	100%	1	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 Payroll 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 Payroll across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 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.

“Best For: Small-to-mid companies already on QuickBooks.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Contractor payments · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as QuickBooks Payroll, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and QuickBooks Payroll was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Gusto7 of 83Not in the top three

Deel6 of 81Not in the top three

Remote4 of 80Not in the top three

Routable3 of 81Not in the top three

Tax10993 of 81Not in the top three

QuickBooks Contractor Payments3 of 80Not in the top three

Rippling3 of 80Not in the top three

Tipalti3 of 80Not in the top three

Track10993 of 80Not in the top three

Papaya Global2 of 81Not 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 Payroll. 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 7 of the 8 answers that named QuickBooks Payroll and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

contractor-of-record.com5

wingspan.app5

worksuite.com5

guideflow.com4

remote.com4

routable.com4

papayaglobal.com3

relayfi.com3

wise.com3

learn.g2.com2

Thirty-eight of the thirty-eight domain citations in answers naming QuickBooks Payroll came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

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

contractor-of-record.com/software/contractor-payouts4

remote.com/blog/payroll/best-contractor-payment-tools4

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

guideflow.com/blog/contractor-payment-software3

papayaglobal.com/blog/10-best-contractor-payment-software3

relayfi.com/blog/best-1099-software-small-businesses-guide3

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

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as QuickBooks Payroll

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

QuickBooks Online Payroll 1

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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 QuickBooks Payroll'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 QuickBooks Payroll, 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 quickbooks.ninja is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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