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September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 · The permanent record of that edition, superseded since. The current standing is on the category page →
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Global payroll and employer of record for enterprise buyers

Asked as “employer of record”, and as “global payroll provider”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 53 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
23%
Contested · Papaya Global 15%
23G-P15Papaya Global11ADP51others

23% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01G-P23%11%36accepted challenger
02Papaya Global15%14%51accepted challenger
03ADP11%7%15accepted challenger
04ADP GlobalView Payroll11%18%11accepted challenger
05Deel9%15%52accepted challenger
06Remote8%10%41accepted challenger
07Rippling2%13%38accepted challenger
08Safeguard Global2%0%12accepted challenger
09Velocity Global2%9%11accepted challenger
10Multiplier2%27%11criticized challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
13Oyster0%33%18criticized challenger
12Atlas HXM0%20%10accepted challenger
11Dayforce0%0%12accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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01G-P23%
02Papaya Global15%
03ADP11%
04ADP GlobalView Payroll11%
05Deel9%
06Remote8%
07Rippling2%
08Safeguard Global2%
09Velocity Global2%
10Multiplier2%
11Dayforce0%
12Atlas HXM0%
13Oyster0%

What they warned about

Zero of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Deel
15%
8 of 52 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“**Deel** | **Cautious / Avoid** | Recurring payroll delays, system errors, support delays, funding-freeze issues, and ongoing legal/PR controversies.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Papaya Global
14%
7 of 51 labels negative · 7 of 12 models
“The platform relies on third-party partners in many regions, which can lead to limited control, inconsistent service quality, and delays in compliance handling.” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
Oyster
33%
6 of 18 labels negative · 6 of 12 models
“Some users report inconsistent support responsiveness and limited configurability for high-complexity workflows” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Remote
10%
4 of 41 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“**Remote.com** | **Cautious / Avoid** | Documented service decline, termination-policy changes, slow support, high fees, and FX markups” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt

What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

78 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1173 links across 272 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Deel35 answers · 52 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Alcor28 answers · 37 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Teamed27 answers · 53 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Remote27 answers · 29 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Gartner25 answers · 29 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Wisemonk25 answers · 29 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Pin23 answers · 25 citations · 12 models
20 answers · 32 citations · 10 models
20 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Gloroots19 answers · 26 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Rippling19 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Playroll17 answers · 18 citations · 9 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best employer of record”, “employer of record”, “eor and global payroll platforms”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
G-P globalization-partners.com23%62110,00011,47116,514$302,233120
ADP adp.com
ADP 11%, ADP GlobalView Payroll 11%
23%1872,740,00023,89713,578,070$62,421108
Papaya papayaglobal.com
Papaya Global 15%
15%156246,00031,430189,744 company$8,309111
Deel deel.com9%52640,5001,210307,175$330,608118
Remote remote.com8%213110,000426,655766,598$15,858883
Teamed teamed.global
Teamed Global 4%, Teamed 2%
6%4
Rippling rippling.com2%1260301,00017,886712,399$42,013115
Safeguard Global safeguardglobal.com2%178803923,341$87184
Velocity velocityglobal.com
Velocity Global 2%
2%241,30077
Multiplier usemultiplier.com2%699,90071,23469,887$4,584120

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 23 sites; 2 of them are among the sites the models cited here (alcor.com, remote.com). The first result for “best employer of record” is hrtechedge.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best employer of record for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which global payroll provider would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade EOR and global payroll platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best employer of record for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating an employer of record. What should we look at?”Negative“Which EOR and global payroll platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5G-P, Papaya Global
Two alternativesRippling, Velocity Global
ADP GlobalView PayrollChanged
Three alternativesDayforce, Deel, Papaya Global
Deel
Three alternativesPapaya Global, Remote, Rippling
G-P, Papaya Globalno first choiceagainst: Papaya Global, Remote, Rippling
GPT-5.4 miniG-P
Three alternativesDeel, Remote, Rippling
ADP GlobalView PayrollChanged
Three alternativesDeel, Papaya Global, Remote
Deel
Five alternativesG-P, Papaya Global, Remote, Rippling, Velocity Global
Remote
Two alternativesDeel, Oyster
no first choiceagainst: Deel, Multiplier, Oyster, Payoneer Workforce Management, RemoFirst, Remote, Skuad
Gemini 3.5 FlashRemote
Three alternativesDeel, Papaya Global, Rippling
ADPChanged
Three alternativesCloudPay, Dayforce, Rippling
Deel
Five alternativesADP, G-P, Papaya Global, Remote, Rippling
Papaya Global
Three alternativesDeel, Rippling, Teamed Global
no first choiceagainst: ADP, Deel, Multiplier, Oyster, Papaya Global
Perplexity SonarG-P
Two alternativesDeel, Rippling
ADP GlobalView PayrollChanged
Five alternativesDayforce, Oracle HCM Cloud, Papaya Global, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, Workday Payroll
G-P, Papaya Global
Five alternativesAtlas HXM, Deel, Remote, Rippling, Velocity Global
Deel
One alternativeMultiplier
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.1 FastPapaya Global
Four alternativesDeel, G-P, Remote, Rippling
ADPChanged
Three alternativesDayforce, UKG Pro, Workday Payroll
ADP, Papaya Global, Rippling
Five alternativesDayforce, Deel, G-P, Remote, Workday Payroll
Teamed Global
Two alternativesDeel, Remote
against: G-P, Oyster, RemoFirst
Deel, Lifted, Remoteagainst: Deel, G-P, Papaya Global, Remote
Mistral Smallno first choiceADP GlobalView PayrollChanged
Two alternativesRemote, Rippling
Deel
Five alternativesG-P, Papaya Global, Remote, Rippling, Teamed
Multiplier
One alternativeGloroots
no first choiceagainst: Gusto, Oyster, Papaya Global, Rippling
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeel
Four alternativesG-P, Papaya Global, Rippling, Velocity Global
ADP GlobalView PayrollChanged
Three alternativesAlight, CloudPay, Safeguard Global
Atlas HXM, G-P
Seven alternativesADP, CloudPay, Multiplier, Oyster, Papaya Global, Remote, Rippling
against: Deel
Deel, Teamed Global
One alternativePapaya Global
against: G-P, Rippling
no first choiceagainst: Atlas HXM, Deel, Multiplier, Oyster, RemoFirst, Rippling, Skuad, Velocity Global
Llama 4 MaverickG-P, Papaya Global, Rippling, Velocity GlobalPapaya GlobalChanged
Two alternativesADP, G-P
no first choiceno first choice
Four alternativesDeel, Oyster, Papaya Global, Remote People
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashG-P
Five alternativesDeel, Oyster, Papaya Global, Remote, Rippling
GrosspayChanged
Five alternativesADP, Dayforce, Deel, Remote, Rippling
Deel, Remote
Three alternativesPapaya Global, Rippling, Safeguard Global Services
G-P, Neeyamo
Two alternativesDeel, Remote
no first choiceagainst: Deel, Lano, Oyster, Savvy
Kimi K2G-P, Papaya Global
Two alternativesDeel, Safeguard Global
ADP, Workday HCMChanged
Four alternativesCloudPay, Dayforce, Papaya Global, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll
ADP, Deel
Five alternativesG-P, Papaya Global, Remote, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, Workday Payroll
Safeguard Global
Two alternativesAtlas HXM, G-P
no first choiceagainst: Atlas HXM, Deel, Papaya Global, Rippling
GLM 4.7 FlashXG-P
Five alternativesDeel, Papaya Global, Rippling, Safeguard Global, Velocity Global
ADPChanged
Four alternativesConduent, Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll, Workday Payroll
Deel
Four alternativesOmnipresent, Papaya Global, Remote, Rippling
against: ADP GlobalView Payroll
Deel
Two alternativesMultiplier, Papaya Global
no first choiceagainst: Deel, Remote
MiniMax M2.5no first choice
Seven alternativesAlcor, Atlas HXM, Deel, G‑P, Papaya Global, Rippling, Velocity Global
ADPChanged
Three alternativesDayforce, UKG Pro, Workday Payroll
no first choiceG-P, Papaya Global, Remote
Two alternativesDeel, Rippling
no first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 09:21yes148 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 08:43yes24 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 10:14yes1624 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 09:03yes234 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 09:13yes229 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 11:34yes54 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 10:31yes1918 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:23yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:10yes1053 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:16yes1014 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:32yes2048 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 07:55yes541 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 11:17yes1610 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:59yes45 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 12:14yes1577 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 07:41yes204 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:34yes258 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 09:56yes52 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 07:40yes2326 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 11:11yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:04no034 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:16yes2021 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:18yes1423 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 11:05yes917 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 07:36yes98 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 10:41yes510 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 09:10yes3132 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:55yes185 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:00yes238 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 09:03yes1412 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:43yes2536 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 08:45yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:46yes1026 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:13yes2529 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:41yes2569 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 11:49yes1932 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 10:09yes189 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 10:22yes44 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 08:08yes4036 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:13yes213 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:44yes188 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 09:00yes53 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 09:03yes2525 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 10:38yes54 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 09:08yes923 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 11:57yes2026 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:18yes946 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:15yes1222 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 07:47yes1712 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 09:21no07 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 11:07yes1230 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 10:14yes208 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 08:30yes127 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 08:03no08 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 10:08yes2350 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 11:10yes52 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 08:04no033 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 08:43no028 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 11:15yes1997 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 09:24yes512 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-10-01 07:45yes189 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-10-01 11:33yes08 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-10-01 12:15yes2255 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-10-01 11:31yes164 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-10-01 10:11yes2412 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-10-01 11:45yes1310 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-10-01 08:49yes2551 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-10-01 09:45yes52 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-10-01 10:19yes2461 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-10-01 10:11yes2437 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-10-01 09:33yes24153 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-10-01 08:30yes2252 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
ADP Global Payroll read as ADP GlobalView Payroll
ADP GlobalView read as ADP GlobalView Payroll
Atlas (by Globalization Partners) read as Atlas HXM
Ceridian read as Dayforce
Ceridian Dayforce read as Dayforce
Oracle read as Oracle HCM Cloud
Oyster HR read as Oyster
RemotePeople read as Remote People
SAP read as SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll
SAP SuccessFactors read as SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll
Strada read as Alight
Workday read as Workday Payroll
Unresolved, counted raw
Atlas Global Group
Conduent
Grosspay (formerly GPG)
G‑P (Global‑Peo)
Lifted
Safeguard Global Services (GTS)
Savvy
Workday Global Payroll Connect
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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