Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 14 of 85, unchanged
Square Contractor Payments
2Judge labels
1First choices
0Negative labels
2 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, 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. Square Contractor Payments was named 2 times in Contractor payments, where Tipalti led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market16 of 98
2%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
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 Square 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contractor payments | Spend and procurement | 2% | 16 of 98 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Tipalti at 22% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Square Contractor Payments held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Contractor payments · by segment
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contractor payments | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 16 of 98, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Square Contractor Payments across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Square Contractor Payments across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labels1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 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.
“For the absolute lowest cost, Square's $5/month plan is the best choice if you only need to pay 1099 contractors” Mistral Small · Contractor payments · budget prompt · first choice
“For a single contractor or very light usage, this is the cheapest possible option. But limited features compared to Gusto” DeepSeek V4 Flash · 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Square Contractor Payments, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Square Contractor Payments was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Square Contractor Payments, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Square Contractor Payments was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Square Contractor Payments. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 2 answers that named Square Contractor Payments and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
acciyo.com2
firsthr.app2
joinhomebase.com2
quickbooks.intuit.com2
constructionplacements.com1
contractorplus.app1
cpaadvisor.us1
deel.com1
fitsmallbusiness.com1
found.com1
Fourteen of the fourteen domain citations in answers naming Square Contractor Payments came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
squareup.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Square Contractor Payments takes 2% of first choices and Tipalti takes 22%.ShowHide
Search and answers
squareup.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Square Contractor Payments takes 2% of first choices and Tipalti takes 22%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “contractor payment platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “contractor payments and 1099 platform”
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not in the top ten
- Its company's site
- squareup.com shared with Square's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 3,658,565 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 164,520 · 15,238 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 158,900
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 2 clicks and $9 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 16 of 98 in contractor payments
Segment leader
22%
Tipalti
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 2 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 2 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
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The company
Square is the company behind Square Contractor Payments.ShowHide
The company
Square is the company behind Square Contractor Payments.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from Square
- Square Invoices, Square Payroll, Square for Business
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Simplifique la forma en que paga a las contratistas.
- For
- empleadores que pagan a contratistas
- Price stated
- Los planes comienzan desde tan solo $6 al mes. squareup.com/us/es/payroll/contractors
- Starting price
- $6 al mes por persona pagada squareup.com/us/es/payroll/contractors
- Free plan or trial
- Free plan; Start free trial squareup.com/au/en/services/contractors
- Certifications
- PCI DSSPCI DSS certified hardware
- Customers named
- Mimi W.Seya CrossFit & WellnessCalvin ValdovinosGDNC Nursery & LandscapingVivero GDNCDesert Hot Springs, CaliforniaGDNC Nursery
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Square Contractor Payments's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: squareup.com/us/es/payroll/contractors, squareup.com/us/en/payroll/contractors, squareup.com/au/en/services/contractors, squareup.com/us/es/services/contractors, squareup.com/us/en/services/contractors. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Square Contractor Payments'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 Square Contractor Payments, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Square Contractor Payments by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Square Contractor Payments is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Square Contractor Payments, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.