Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 4% → 5%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 9 → 8 of 71
17 categories · RankedPaycor
230Judge labels
15First choices
40Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
17Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
9% in Succession planning for small business buyers
Rank 11 of 78 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 12 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Paycor →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market11 of 78
4%12 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise61 of 81
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In workforce management sui · 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 Paycor 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 4% | 11 of 78 | 0% | 12 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 4% → 5%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| HR compliance and policy management | Core HR and payroll | 4% | 9 of 97 | 5% | 19 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Flexible benefits and lifestyle spending accounts | Compensation and total rewards | 2% | 9 of 90 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Compt at 40% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Benefits administration | Core HR and payroll | 2% | 11 of 67 | 10% | 20 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Time and attendance | Core HR and payroll | 2% | 14 of 86 | 0% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Clockify at 12% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | Core HR and payroll | 2% | 10 of 66 | 20% | 15 | accepted challenger | ▼−3Since September 2026: 5% → 2%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Payroll software | Core HR and payroll | 2% | 10 of 58 | 23% | 13 | accepted challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Employee onboarding | Onboarding and employee experience | 2% | 9 of 87 | 10% | 10 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Succession planning | Performance and talent management | 0% | 25 of 93 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 28% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| People analytics | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 23 of 114 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Crunchr at 22% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 106 of 140 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Leave and absence management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 32 of 95 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| HR AI assistants | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 35 of 142 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by MeBeBot at 21% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| HR help desk and case management | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 106 of 108 | 100% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 19% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Applicant tracking systems | Talent acquisition | 0% | 31 of 65 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Greenhouse at 40% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Goals and OKRs | Performance and talent management | 0% | 46 of 68 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Perdoo at 24% | |
| Performance management | Performance and talent management | 0% | 71 of 85 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 43% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Paycor held within the floor in all seventeen categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Workforce management sui · by segment
Enterprise=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 22 → 51 of 70
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Succession planning | 4% | 0% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 25 of 93 |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | 5% | 2% | ▼−3Since September 2026: 5% → 2%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 7 → 10 of 66 |
| Flexible benefits | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 19 → 9 of 90 |
| HR compliance | 2% | 4% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 11 → 9 of 97 |
| Leave | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 32 of 95 |
| Payroll software | 4% | 2% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 8 → 10 of 58 |
| Employee onboarding | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 15 → 9 of 87 |
| People analytics | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 15 → 23 of 114 |
| Time and attendance | 2% | 2% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 15 → 14 of 86 |
| Workforce management sui | 4% | 5% | =heldSince September 2026: 4% → 5%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 9 → 11 of 78 |
| Benefits administration | 2% | 2% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 7 → 11 of 67 |
| Compensation management | 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 154 → 106 of 140 |
| HR AI assistants | 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 27 → 35 of 142 |
| HR help desk | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 106 of 108, unchanged |
| Applicant tracking syste | 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 39 → 31 of 65 |
| Goals and OKRs | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 46 of 68, unchanged |
| Performance management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 71 of 85, 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 Paycor 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 Paycor 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 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 13 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 20 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 16 |
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
Direct62 labels8
Paraphrase39 labels6
Comparative42 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained19 labels1
Scale-constrained28 labelsNone
Negative40 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative230 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 of the 16 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.
“Paycor – Best for midsize to large companies, offering a full HR suite with robust onboarding, compliance, and training features.” Mistral Small · Employee onboarding · direct prompt · first choice
“I would recommend Paycor if you want the best balance of scheduling, compliance, analytics, and payroll/HR integration” Perplexity Sonar · Workforce management sui · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“If you want a single recommendation without more context, choose Paycor for a typical mid-sized B2B company” Perplexity Sonar · Time and attendance · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Rippling and Paycor are consistently highlighted as the strongest choices for mid-market companies” Claude Haiku 4.5 · HR compliance · direct 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.
“Major Open Enrollment Failures... Paycor failed to execute open enrollment, leaving employees without coverage for weeks” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Benefits administration · negative prompt · hard negative
“Paycor has drawn consistent criticism for implementation and support quality... average rating of 1.5 stars” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Payroll software · negative prompt · hard negative
“Paycor consistently receives some of the worst reviews among payroll/compensation platforms” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compensation management · negative prompt · hard negative
“"Avoid ADP, Paychex, and Paycor like the plague."” Muse Glimmer 30B · HR compliance · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Paycor, over the 230 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Paycor was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Paycor, over the 230 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Paycor 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 Paycor. 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 228 of the 230 answers that named Paycor and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com110
paycor.comYour site85
g2.com84
hibob.com83
peoplemanagingpeople.com75
rippling.com61
forbes.com55
firsthr.app53
gusto.com47
capterra.com46
614 of the 699 domain citations in answers naming Paycor came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
paycor.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Paycor takes 4% of first choices and Rippling takes 17%.ShowHide
Search and answers
paycor.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Paycor takes 4% of first choices and Rippling takes 17%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “wfm suites”
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not in the top ten
Position for “workforce management software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 673,000 a month (“paycor”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1,818 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,002,900 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 64,318 · 3,816 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 9,371
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 11 of 78 in workforce management sui
Segment leader
17%
Rippling
- First choices
- 15 across its categories
- Named in
- 230 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 228 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 paycor.com
1,514
subdomains included
Content
1,243
counted in the table below
Documentation
2
Product · Integration
0 · 11
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 555 | 10 | 2026-09-22 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 174 | 6 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Report or ebook | 147 | undated | |||
| News or press | 147 | undated | |||
| Case study | 101 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 39 | 0 | 2026-06-02 | ||
| Comparison | 31 | 0 | 2026-03-09 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 31 | 2 | 2026-08-10 | ||
| Podcast or video | 14 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 4 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-22Best employee benefits blog
- 2026-09-22Scale your hiring process blog
- 2026-09-22Employee volunteer program blog
- 2026-09-18Monthly virtual demo 2 webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-16Using ai to accelerate compensation and hr decisions webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-14Employee benefits survey blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page paycor.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 Paycor
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Paycor; a claim can dispute any of them.
Paycom / Paycor 1Paycor / Paylocity 1Paycor/Dayforce 1Paycor/Paycom 1
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The company
Paycor is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Paycor is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- a comprehensive HCM platform that helps mid-market and enterprise organizations manage HR, payroll, talent, workforce management, analytics, and employee engagement through a unified platform
- For
- mid-market and enterprise organizations
- Price stated
- Plans + Pricing paycor.com/partners
- Integrations claimed
- 140 paycor.com
- Certifications
- GDPRFinCENUS Privacy ShieldSOC 1 Type 2SOC 2 Type 2Nacha CertifiedData Privacy Framework
- Hosting
- AWSAzureGoogle Cloud
- Customers named
- Kansas Heart HospitalShawnee Health ServiceAssuredPartners
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial
What Paycor's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: paycor.com, paycor.com/plans-pricing, paycor.com/compliance-solutions/security, paycor.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Paycor by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Paycor 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 Paycor, 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.