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Index › Vendors › SurePayroll · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

SurePayroll

8Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

5 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. SurePayroll was named 3 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 business24 of 73

under the label threshold

Mid-market14 of 83

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

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 SurePayroll 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	2%	14 of 83	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Deel at 27%

Movement

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 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.

“the best fit is usually SurePayroll if you want an affordable, contractor-focused payroll tool” Perplexity Sonar · Contractor payments · budget prompt · first choice

“followed closely by SurePayroll or Patriot Software depending on your specific needs” Qwen 3.7 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 SurePayroll, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SurePayroll was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Gusto6 of 82Not in the top three

Square Payroll4 of 81Not in the top three

BILL2 of 80Not in the top three

Melio2 of 80Not in the top three

Patriot Software2 of 80Not in the top three

QuickBooks2 of 80Not in the top three

Deel1 of 81Not in the top three

QuickBooks Contractor Payments1 of 81Not in the top three

QuickBooks Contractor Payments / Payroll1 of 81Not in the top three

Tax10991 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 SurePayroll. 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 8 of the 8 answers that named SurePayroll and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

wingspan.app8

gusto.com7

worksuite.com5

learn.g2.com4

remote.com4

wise.com4

analyticsinsight.net3

capterra.com3

firsthr.app3

guideflow.com3

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

Pages cited

gusto.com/resources/guides/best-contractor-payroll-software6

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

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

learn.g2.com/best-contractor-payment-software4

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

wise.com/us/blog/batchtransfer-contractor-payroll-software4

analyticsinsight.net/business/best-contractor-payment-service-providers-in-20263

firsthr.app/compare/payroll/contractor-payroll3

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

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