Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 39 → 13 of 48
Papaya · 4 categories · RankedPapaya Global
159Judge labels
15First choices
27Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
15% in Global payroll for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 61 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 19% of its 42 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Papaya Global →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business13 of 55
0%28 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 61
9%42 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise2 of 47
15%51 labels
accepted challenger
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 Papaya Global 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 | 9% | 4 of 61 | 19% | 42 | accepted challenger | ▼−3Since September 2026: 13% → 10%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| PEO providers | Core HR and payroll | 2% | 10 of 53 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Justworks at 24% | |
| Payroll software | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 21 of 58 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 20% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Contingent workforce management | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 97 of 121 | 50% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by VectorVMS at 16% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Papaya Global held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Global payroll · by segment
Mid-market▼−3Since September 2026: 13% → 10%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
10%from 13% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 2 → 4 of 53
Enterprise▲+10Since September 2026: 7% → 17%, +10 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
17%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 6 → 2 of 45
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global payroll | 13% | 10% | ▼−3Since September 2026: 13% → 10%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 → 4 of 61 |
| PEOs | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 10 of 53, unchanged |
| Payroll software | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 20 → 21 of 58 |
| Contingent workforce man | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 36 → 97 of 121 |
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 Papaya Global 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 Papaya Global 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 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
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
Direct28 labels5
Paraphrase25 labels5
Comparative51 labels5not counted in share
Budget-constrained15 labels5
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative34 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative159 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 of the 22 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.
“Papaya is widely considered the leading global payments and payroll platform... Choose Papaya Global if you want the most powerful technology” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Global payroll · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“or Papaya Global if you're scaling internationally and need deeper financial controls. Both are built for your company size” Kimi K2 · Global payroll · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Rippling (at $8/employee) and Papaya Global (at $25/employee) offer the lowest flat rates” GLM 4.7 FlashX · PEOs · budget prompt · first choice
“the best global payroll provider for a mid-sized B2B company would be Papaya Global” Llama 4 Maverick · Global payroll · paraphrase 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.
“Papaya Global: Repeated issues with payroll delays, tax filing errors, and poor support response times in complex markets” Grok 4.1 Fast · Global payroll · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Papaya Global unless you have a dedicated compliance person reviewing every payroll cycle manually.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Global payroll · negative prompt · hard negative
“Implementation runs 8-12 weeks in complex environments... EOR delivered via in-country partners, so service quality varies by market” Muse Glimmer 30B · Global payroll · negative prompt · soft negative
“High-Growth EOR & Contractor Compliance Platforms (e.g., Deel, Remote, Papaya Global)... they have faced growing pains” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Contingent workforce man · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Papaya Global, over the 159 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Papaya Global was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Papaya Global, over the 159 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Papaya Global 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 Papaya Global. 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 156 of the 159 answers that named Papaya Global and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
deel.com60
peoplemanagingpeople.com60
remote.com56
teamed.global46
rippling.com45
gartner.com39
wisemonk.io38
learn.g2.com37
alcor.com36
selectsoftwarereviews.com36
453 of the 453 domain citations in answers naming Papaya Global came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
papayaglobal.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Papaya Global takes 9% of first choices and Deel takes 30%.ShowHide
Search and answers
papayaglobal.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Papaya Global takes 9% 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
- 1,600 a month (“papaya global”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 50 a month
- Its company's site
- papayaglobal.com shared with Papaya's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 189,744 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 18,384 · 1,469 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,792
- Paid Google search
- 4 searches its ads show for, about 59 clicks and $8,309 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
9%
rank 4 of 61 in global payroll
Segment leader
30%
Deel
- First choices
- 15 across its categories
- Named in
- 159 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 156 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.
Names read as Papaya Global
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Papaya Global; a claim can dispute any of them.
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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
Papaya is the company behind Papaya Global.ShowHide
The company
Papaya is the company behind Papaya Global.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Global payroll and compliance in 180+ countries, one platform.
- For
- Enterprises
- Price stated
- See prices papayaglobal.com
- Certifications
- SOC 1 & 2 Type IIISO 27001 & 27701CSA STARGDPR / CCPA / PIPLLicensed Financial InstitutionSOC 1SOC 2ISO 27001
- Hosting
- 180+ countries
- Customers named
- Tricon EnergySouth PoleSentinelOneLiptonCato Networks
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations
What Papaya Global's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: papayaglobal.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Papaya Global'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 Papaya Global, 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 Papaya Global by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Papaya Global 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 Papaya Global, 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.