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Index Vendors › DailyPay · September 2026 Edition
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DailyPay

138Judge labels
37First choices
38Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
61% in Earned wage access for enterprise buyers
Rank 5 of 61 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 27% of its 41 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In earned wage access · 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 DailyPay 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Earned wage accessCompensation and total rewards7%5 of 6127%41criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for DailyPay yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated DailyPay across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500202
GPT-5.4 mini21003
Gemini 3.5 Flash21014
Perplexity Sonar21014
Grok 4.1 Fast12036
Mistral Small10113
DeepSeek V4 Flash10135
Llama 4 Maverick10012
Qwen 3.7 Flash22004
Kimi K201113
GLM 4.7 FlashX03003
MiniMax M2.511002

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
Direct23 labels13
Paraphrase27 labels18
Comparative32 labels21not counted in share
Budget-constrained21 labels4
Scale-constrained8 labels2
Negative27 labels4not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative138 labels in all, every segment counted; 37 of the 62 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.

“DailyPay is considered the strongest overall pick for large enterprises already running ADP, Workday, or UKG, due to its deep payroll integration bench.” Llama 4 Maverick · Earned wage access · comparative prompt · first choice
“DailyPay, Payactiv, and Earnin, which consistently rank as leaders by revenue, user base, and market adoption ... revenue: DailyPay tops” Grok 4.1 Fast · Earned wage access · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you are an employer with a large workforce using ADP/UKG: DailyPay or Payactiv are the safest, most proven choices.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Earned wage access · comparative prompt · first choice
“try to use employer-partnered programs (such as DailyPay or Payactiv) rather than third-party consumer apps” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Earned wage access · negative 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.

“DailyPay: Sued by New York AG (Apr 2025) alongside MoneyLion for high fees ... violating usury laws. High BBB/CFPB complaints” Grok 4.1 Fast · Earned wage access · negative prompt · hard negative
“Sued by NY AG (April 2025) | Usurious interest rates; illegal payday lending” Kimi K2 · Earned wage access · negative prompt · hard negative
“Intercept models* (like DailyPay) route the employee’s entire paycheck through a designated account first... deduction models are usually much easier” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Earned wage access · direct prompt · soft negative
“I would be more cautious with high-fee or add-on-heavy usage of apps like EarnIn, Dave, MoneyLion, DailyPay, Brigit, and Empower” Perplexity Sonar · Earned wage access · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as DailyPay, over the 138 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DailyPay was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Payactiv96 of 1386Not in the top three
ZayZoon63 of 13828Not in the top three
Tapcheck63 of 13819Not in the top three
Rain57 of 1387Not in the top three
EarnIn57 of 1381Not in the top three
Branch55 of 1380Not in the top three
Chime Workplace33 of 1382Not in the top three
MoneyLion23 of 1380Not in the top three
Immediate22 of 1381Not in the top three
Dave20 of 1381Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 DailyPay. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 123 of the 138 answers that named DailyPay and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

enterprise.chime.com91
guideflow.com63
dailypay.comYour site54
g2.com53
fintechspecs.com52
hrtechsaas.com50
pickmysoft.com50
us.fitgap.com47
juicefin.com46
best-earned-wage-access-providers-usa.lovable.app40

492 of the 546 domain citations in answers naming DailyPay came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited 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 DailyPay'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 DailyPay, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at dailypay.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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