Small business▼−5Since September 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 6 → 19 of 48
1 category · Named, not rankedHire with Columbus
9Judge labels
4First choices
0Negative labels
6 / 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
7 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Hire with Columbus was named 7 times in Global payroll, where Deel led with 30%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business19 of 55
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market6 of 61
7%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In global payroll · 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 Hire with Columbus 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global payroll and employer of record | Core HR and payroll | 7% | 6 of 61 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Deel at 30% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 9% → 6%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Hire with Columbus held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Global payroll · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 9% → 6%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 9% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 7 → 6 of 53
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global payroll | 9% | 6% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 9% → 6%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 7 → 6 of 61 |
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 Hire with Columbus 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 Hire with Columbus 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained8 labels4
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.
“Hire with Columbus $179/mo with 193 countries is the most frequently cited lowest-cost option” Muse Glimmer 30B · Global payroll · budget prompt · first choice
“Remofirst or Hire with Columbus offer the best entry-level pricing” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Global payroll · budget prompt · first choice
“RemoFirst or Hire with Columbus offer the best value” MiniMax M2.5 · Global payroll · budget prompt · first choice
“Hire with Columbus (Best Overall Value)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Global payroll · budget 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Hire with Columbus, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hire with Columbus was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Hire with Columbus, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hire with Columbus 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 Hire with Columbus. 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 9 of the 9 answers that named Hire with Columbus and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
remotepeople.com6
employborderless.com5
eoroverview.com4
peoplemanagingpeople.com4
remofirst.com4
teamed.global4
eorcompare.ai3
pin.com3
playroll.com3
remote.com3
Thirty-nine of the thirty-nine domain citations in answers naming Hire with Columbus came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
hirewithcolumbus.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Hire with Columbus takes 7% of first choices and Deel takes 30%.ShowHide
Search and answers
hirewithcolumbus.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Hire with Columbus takes 7% of first choices and Deel takes 30%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “employer of record”
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not in the top ten
Position for “best employer of record”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 50 a month (“hire with columbus”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 242 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 28 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 59 · 1 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 142
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
7%
rank 6 of 61 in global payroll
Segment leader
30%
Deel
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 9 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 9 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 hirewithcolumbus.com
240
subdomains included
Content
63
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template or tool | 36 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 20 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 7 | undated | Global payroll |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page hirewithcolumbus.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. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Hire with Columbus
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Hire with Columbus; a claim can dispute any of them.
Columbus 1
Follow Hire with Columbus
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.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Hire with Columbus is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Hire with Columbus is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Affordable Employer of Record (EOR) Services
- For
- Businesses hiring international employees and companies expanding globally
- Price stated
- Starting from $179/month per employee hirewithcolumbus.com
- Starting price
- 179 hirewithcolumbus.com
- Free plan or trial
- Your first month is completely free, that's a $179+ value we'll cover personally. hirewithcolumbus.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II certifiedISO 27001 certifiedGDPR compliant
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting, customers
What Hire with Columbus's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: hirewithcolumbus.com, hirewithcolumbus.com/pricing. 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 Hire with Columbus'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 Hire with Columbus, 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 Hire with Columbus by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Hire with Columbus 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 Hire with Columbus, 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.