Zero of twelve models named Gusto first on the direct prompt; one named ADP Workforce Now. Both were named by all twelve models and Gusto carries 37 labels and ADP Workforce Now 28, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in eighteen categories this edition.
Named in seventeen categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the benefits administration page.
Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Gusto and ADP Workforce Now were named in the same answer eighty-six times, of the 802 answers naming Gusto and the 369 naming ADP Workforce Now. In those answers ADP Workforce Now took the first choice seven times and Gusto eleven.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
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| Claude Haiku 4.5 | ||||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | ||||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | ||||||
| Perplexity Sonar | ||||||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | ||||||
| Mistral Small | ||||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | ||||||
| Llama 4 Maverick | ||||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | ||||||
| Kimi K2 | ||||||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | ||||||
| MiniMax M2.5 |
Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
No label in this category carried a quote.
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“Mid-market payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) systems (such as ADP Workforce Now, Rippling, Gusto, or Paylocity) that sell benefits administration as an "add-on"” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.