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1 category · Named, not ranked

Skuad

8Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative labels

4 / 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Skuad was named 3 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 business26 of 55

under the label threshold

Mid-market57 of 61

under the label threshold

Enterprise44 of 47

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 Skuad 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	0%	57 of 61	67%	3	under 10 labels · led by Deel at 30%	=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, Skuad held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.

Best category · Global payroll · by segment

Small businessgoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 13 pointsNot ranked

Mid-market=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 58 → 45 of 53

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 36 → 45 of 45

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
Global payroll	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 58 → 57 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 Skuad across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	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

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Skuad — Good for mid-market with more reasonable pricing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Global payroll · negative prompt · alternative

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.

“high automation, AI-driven options note they often struggle with hidden fees” Muse Glimmer 30B · Global payroll · negative prompt · soft negative

“Users have reported onboarding problems, payment delays, and support issues” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Global payroll · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Skuad, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Skuad was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Deel7 of 81Not among the top eight

Multiplier7 of 81Not among the top eight

Oyster7 of 80Not among the top eight

Papaya Global6 of 82Not among the top eight

Remote6 of 80Not among the top eight

RemoFirst5 of 81Not among the top eight

Rippling5 of 80Not among the top eight

G-P4 of 81Not among the top eight

Atlas HXM3 of 80Not among the top eight

Native Teams2 of 81Not among the top eight

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 Skuad. 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 7 of the 8 answers that named Skuad and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

capterra.com4

deel.com4

remote.com4

alcor.com3

employborderless.com3

remotepeople.com3

teamed.global3

trustpilot.com3

wisemonk.io3

asianetnews.com2

Thirty-two of the thirty-two domain citations in answers naming Skuad came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

alcor.com/best-employer-of-record-for-software-companies3

alcor.com/oyster-hr-employer-of-record-reviews2

asianetnews.com/finance/employer-of-record-services2

capterra.com/p/205015/Deel/reviews2

deel.com/blog/employer-of-record-risks-and-how-to-avoid-them2

gartner.com/reviews/market/employer-of-record-eor2

hireborderless.com/post/best-employer-of-record2

producthunt.com/products/deel/reviews2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

What it publishes

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Addresses on skuad.io

2,221

subdomains included

Content

596

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

12 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	381	0	2025-03-12	Global payroll, HRIS and HCM platforms
Glossary or explainer	115	0	2024-12-23	Global payroll, HRIS and HCM platforms
Comparison	83	0	2025-02-28	Global payroll
Template or tool	7	0	2024-02-22
Case study	6	undated
Report or ebook	2	undated
Podcast or video	2	undated

Most recent

2025-03-12Ultimate guide to independent contractor tax deductions blog
2025-02-28Contractors vs sub contractors comparison
2025-02-17Navigating the independent contractor vs employee classification in australia comparison
2025-01-15Freelance vs self employed understanding the key differences comparison
2025-01-15How to invoice as a freelancer blog
2024-12-27The ultimate guide to aca reporting requirements blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page skuad.io 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.

Follow Skuad

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

Skuad is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Global HR Platform for Remote Teams
skuad.io
For: businesses everywhere
skuad.io
Price stated: Employees Starts at $199; Contractors Starts at $19 skuad.io
Starting price: Starts at $199 skuad.io
Free plan or trial: Start today, cancel any time. skuad.io/pricing
Integrations claimed: 70 skuad.io/pricing
Certifications: authorised by the DNB under the Wet op het financieel toezicht to carry out the business of an electronic-money institutionauthorised by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 for the issuing of electronic moneySOC 2
Hosting: APACMEAEuropeThe Americas
Customers named: SimwellOpenSolarPureRedVRP ConsultingMicrosense

What Skuad's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: skuad.io, skuad.io/pricing, skuad.io/global-payroll/compliance, skuad.io/platform/manage, skuad.io/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Skuad'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 Skuad, 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 Skuad by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Skuad 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 Skuad, 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.