Small business▲+10Since September 2026: 21% → 31%, +10 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
31%from 21% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 2 of 48, unchanged
3 categories · RankedRemoFirst
78Judge labels
26First choices
7Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
31% in Global payroll for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 61 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 4% of its 26 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of RemoFirst →By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.
Small business2 of 55
31%38 labels
endorsed leader
Mid-market2 of 61
20%26 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise43 of 47
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
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 RemoFirst 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 | 20% | 2 of 61 | 4% | 26 | accepted challenger | ▲+10Since September 2026: 11% → 21%, +10 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Benefits administration | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 37 of 67 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Gusto at 20% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Contingent workforce management | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 83 of 121 | 0% | 1 | 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, RemoFirst held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Global payroll · by segment
Mid-market▲+10Since September 2026: 11% → 21%, +10 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
21%from 11% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 4 → 2 of 53
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 11 → 43 of 45
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global payroll | 11% | 21% | ▲+10Since September 2026: 11% → 21%, +10 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 4 → 2 of 61 |
| Benefits administration | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 37 of 67, unchanged |
| 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 26 → 83 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 RemoFirst 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 RemoFirst 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 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
Direct18 labels2
Paraphrase2 labels1
Comparative21 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained29 labels23
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative8 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative78 labels in all, every segment counted; 26 of the 31 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.
“Remofirst and RemotePeople are generally considered the top Affordable Employer of Record (EOR) options in 2026.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Global payroll · budget prompt · first choice
“For most companies with a limited budget, RemoFirst is the best overall choice” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Global payroll · budget prompt · first choice
“For a limited budget, the strongest answer from the results is RemoFirst” Perplexity Sonar · Global payroll · budget prompt · first choice
“Remofirst is widely regarded as the most established and reliable low-cost EOR.” 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.
“Bare-bones Support: You get what you pay for.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Global payroll · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as RemoFirst, over the 78 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and RemoFirst was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as RemoFirst, over the 78 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and RemoFirst 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 RemoFirst. 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 77 of the 78 answers that named RemoFirst and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com39
remofirst.comYour site35
remotepeople.com33
pin.com29
teamed.global29
hr.software27
technologyadvice.com25
deel.com24
selectsoftwarereviews.com24
tech.co24
254 of the 289 domain citations in answers naming RemoFirst came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
remofirst.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, RemoFirst takes 20% of first choices and Deel takes 30%.ShowHide
Search and answers
remofirst.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, RemoFirst takes 20% of first choices and Deel takes 30%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “employer of record”
1
Position for “best employer of record”
4
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,600 a month (“remofirst”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 21 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 17,414 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 6,064 · 163 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,001
- Paid Google search
- 3 searches its ads show for, about 20 clicks and $701 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
20%
rank 2 of 61 in global payroll
Segment leader
30%
Deel
- First choices
- 26 across its categories
- Named in
- 78 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 77 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 remofirst.com
3,452
subdomains included
Content
1,682
counted in the table below
Documentation
2
Product · Integration
34 · 656
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,145 | 70 | 2026-09-28 | Global payroll, Employee onboarding | |
| Glossary or explainer | 343 | 0 | 2026-02-13 | Global payroll, Benefits administration | |
| Podcast or video | 70 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 58 | 5 | 2026-09-21 | Global payroll | |
| Report or ebook | 34 | undated | |||
| Case study | 10 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 10 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 6 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 6 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Remote workers tool stack blog
- 2026-09-25Paid leave laws netherlands blog
- 2026-09-21Velocity global alternatives comparison
- 2026-09-21Velocity global alternatives comparison
- 2026-09-18Best global employment platform tools to consider blog
- 2026-09-18Contractor of record vs employer of record comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page remofirst.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 RemoFirst
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as RemoFirst; a claim can dispute any of them.
Remofirst 12
Follow RemoFirst
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
RemoFirst is its own company.ShowHide
The company
RemoFirst is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI-native global hiring without the enterprise price tag.
- For
- fast-growing teams across 185+ countries
- Price stated
- EOR from $199/month. remofirst.com
- Starting price
- $199 per employee/month remofirst.com
- Free plan or trial
- If you don't hear from us on time, you will get the first month FREE! remofirst.com
- Integrations claimed
- 4 remofirst.com/integrations
- Customers named
- Blomberg Music ProductionsAflorithmicPandaDocCreatioTrust LabPortcastBetVictorTruffle Ventures
- Not stated on the pages read
- Certifications, hosting
What RemoFirst's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: remofirst.com, remofirst.com/glossary/compliance, remofirst.com/solutions/legal, remofirst.com/customer-stories, remofirst.com/integrations. 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 RemoFirst'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 RemoFirst, 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 RemoFirst by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where RemoFirst 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 RemoFirst, 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 RemoFirst 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 RemoFirst is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideRemoFirst is among the products AI models recommend first in Global payroll and employer of record 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.