Paylocity vs ADP Workforce Now
Five of twelve models named Paylocity first on the direct prompt; one named ADP Workforce Now. Paylocity was named by eleven of the twelve models and ADP Workforce Now by ten and Paylocity carries 35 labels and ADP Workforce Now 18, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in twenty 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 payroll software page.
By framing
PaylocityFirst choices, of twelve modelsADP Workforce Now
Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Paylocity and ADP Workforce Now were named in the same answer 103 times, of the 275 answers naming Paylocity and the 369 naming ADP Workforce Now. In those answers ADP Workforce Now took the first choice eighteen times and Paylocity ten.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | | | |
Paylocity ADP Workforce Now first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Paylocity on the left and ADP Workforce Now on the right.The direct prompt
Both were the first choice
1 of 12 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.Paylocity first, ADP Workforce Now an alternative
4 of 12 modelsADP Workforce Now was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
4 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
3 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.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.
By buyer segment
Paylocity0%#– of 10ADP Workforce Now—not namedPaylocity17%#3 of 13ADP Workforce Now4%#7 of 13ADP Workforce Now18%#2 of 13Paylocity0%#13 of 13What the models said about Paylocity
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“here are the platforms you should be cautious about and why: ### 1. Paylocity ... claim the software causes significant errors in payroll processing” Qwen 3.7 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“multiple user discussions describe poor support and technical issues, so it is a candidate for extra due diligence” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · hard negative
What the models said about ADP Workforce Now
No label in this category carried a quote.
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.