Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 16% → 14%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
14%from 16% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 3 of 37, unchanged
2 categories · RankedDailyPay
209Judge labels
39First choices
43Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
67% in Earned wage access for enterprise buyers
Rank 3 of 54 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 21% of its 58 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of DailyPay →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business3 of 38
12%47 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market3 of 54
9%58 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise1 of 55
67%67 labels
endorsed leader
In earned wage access · 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 DailyPay 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earned wage access | Compensation and total rewards | 9% | 3 of 54 | 21% | 58 | accepted challenger | ▲+3Since September 2026: 7% → 10%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Financial wellness platforms | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 21 of 117 | 21% | 14 | accepted challenger |
Movement
Since September 2026, DailyPay held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Earned wage access · by segment
Mid-market▲+3Since September 2026: 7% → 10%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
10%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 5 → 3 of 44
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 61% → 61%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
61%from 61% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 1 of 53, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earned wage access | 7% | 10% | ▲+3Since September 2026: 7% → 10%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 3 of 54 |
| Financial wellness | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 21 of 117, 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 13 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 DailyPay 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 DailyPay 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
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
Direct39 labels18
Paraphrase39 labels15
Comparative48 labels20not counted in share
Budget-constrained26 labels6
Scale-constrained15 labelsNone
Negative42 labels8not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative209 labels in all, every segment counted; 39 of the 67 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.
“Real-time access up to full earned pay; deep payroll integrations (ADP, UKG)... High adoption (1,200+ employers, millions of users). | Large enterprises needing scale & engagement.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Earned wage access · comparative prompt · first choice
“DailyPay is the strongest overall pick for large enterprises already running ADP, Workday, or UKG. It has the deepest payroll integration bench of any provider on the list.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Earned wage access · comparative prompt · first choice
“If your employer offers a reputable, integrated EWA program (such as DailyPay or Payactiv), it is generally safer than direct-to-consumer apps” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Earned wage access · negative prompt · first choice
“stick with employer‑integrated options (e.g., DailyPay, Payactiv, Branch Core) that tend to be more transparent and cheaper” MiniMax M2.5 · Earned wage access · negative prompt · first choice
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.
“The New York Attorney General has sued DailyPay, alleging the "on-demand pay" product functions as an illegal loan with high fees.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Earned wage access · negative prompt · hard negative
“DailyPay is a named defendant in an active New York Attorney General lawsuit over alleged illegal lending.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Earned wage access · negative prompt · hard negative
“High fee extraction: New York Attorney General found DailyPay extracts over $300/year on average” Kimi K2 · Financial wellness · negative prompt · hard negative
“Sued by NY AG in 2025 for allegedly operating as an illegal payday lender” Grok 4.1 Fast · Earned wage access · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as DailyPay, over the 209 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DailyPay was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as DailyPay, over the 209 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DailyPay 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 DailyPay. 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 205 of the 209 answers that named DailyPay and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com120
dailypay.comYour site97
g2.com95
enterprise.chime.com85
peoplemanagingpeople.com84
us.fitgap.com74
sourceforge.net67
juicefin.com55
tapcheck.com54
fintechspecs.com48
682 of the 779 domain citations in answers naming DailyPay came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
dailypay.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, DailyPay takes 9% of first choices and Tapcheck takes 38%.ShowHide
Search and answers
dailypay.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, DailyPay takes 9% of first choices and Tapcheck takes 38%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “earned wage access provider”
2
Position for “earned wage access providers”
2
- Searches for its name, Google
- 165,000 a month (“dailypay”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3,329 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 213,488 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 7,567 · 1,400 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,888
- Paid Google search
- 4 searches its ads show for, about 14 clicks and $2,108 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
9%
rank 3 of 54 in earned wage access
Segment leader
38%
Tapcheck
- First choices
- 39 across its categories
- Named in
- 209 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 205 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on dailypay.com
1,536
subdomains included
Content
1,078
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
1 · 26
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 532 | 7 | 2026-09-17 | Earned wage access | |
| Blog | 210 | 4 | 2026-08-19 | Earned wage access | |
| Podcast or video | 117 | 0 | 2025-11-18 | Earned wage access | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 90 | 2 | 2026-07-07 | Earned wage access | |
| Case study | 49 | 0 | 2026-06-12 | Earned wage access | |
| Conference or event | 36 | 0 | 2026-05-20 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 15 | 1 | 2026-08-14 | Earned wage access | |
| Report or ebook | 14 | undated | Earned wage access | ||
| Comparison | 9 | 1 | 2026-07-23 | Earned wage access | |
| Template or tool | 6 | 0 | 2026-01-22 | Employee onboarding |
Most recent
- 2026-09-17New research on frontline workers finds widening expectation gap in schedule flexibility pay clarity and digital tools news or press
- 2026-08-24Uber drivers get paid instantly office workers want in news or press
- 2026-08-19Get paid early blog
- 2026-08-14What is earned wage access glossary or explainer
- 2026-08-10With banks tapping ewa rival fintechs cast a wider net news or press
- 2026-08-05Flexible pay 2026 everest group report blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page dailypay.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as DailyPay
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as DailyPay; a claim can dispute any of them.
DailyPay / Earned Wage Access 1
Follow DailyPay
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
DailyPay is its own company.ShowHide
The company
DailyPay is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- An on-demand pay platform that delivers early access to earned wages and works with all HR/HCM/payroll systems.
- For
- Employers
- Price stated
- no cost or disruption to your business dailypay.com
- Integrations claimed
- 180 dailypay.com · 200 dailypay.com/marketplace pages disagree
- Certifications
- FDIC insured through The Bancorp Bank, N.A., Member FDICNMLS ID is 2587396Earned Wage License Number in Nevada is EWA00004Earned Wage License Number in Wisconsin is 2587396EWASOC2 Type IIISO27001PCI-DSSPen Test Report
- Customers named
- WorkdayDialAmericaThe Adecco GroupChristian HorizonsLeevers Supermarkets, Inc.Dewey’sStoughton TrailersAmericor
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, hosting
What DailyPay's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: dailypay.com, trust.dailypay.com, dailypay.com/platform, dailypay.com/resource-center/case-studies, dailypay.com/marketplace. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
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 DailyPay'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 DailyPay, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for DailyPay by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where DailyPay 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 DailyPay, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where DailyPay is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where DailyPay is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideDailyPay is among the products AI models recommend first in Earned wage access this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.