Gusto vs Deel
Zero of fourteen models named Gusto first on the direct prompt; zero named Deel. Gusto was named by twelve of the fourteen models and Deel by twelve and Gusto carries 27 labels and Deel 23, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in twenty-four 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 fourteen 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 employee onboarding page.
By framing
GustoFirst choices, of fourteen modelsDeel
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Gusto and Deel were named in the same answer 137 times, of the 926 answers naming Gusto and the 543 naming Deel. In those answers Deel took the first choice seventeen times and Gusto forty-three.
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 | | |||||
| GPT-6 Luna | | |||||
| Muse Glimmer 30B |
Gusto Deel first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Gusto on the left and Deel on the right.The direct prompt
Neither was the first choice, one was named
3 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
11 of 14 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
What the models said about Gusto
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“Gusto and Homebase are often cited as the best options for small businesses and those with limited budgets” Mistral Small · budget prompt · first choice
What the models said about Deel
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.