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Index › Vendors › Empower · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Empower

10Judge labels

1First choices

8Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Empower was named 5 times in Earned wage access and 1 other category, where Tapcheck led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business25 of 28

under the label threshold

Mid-market58 of 61

under the label threshold

Enterprise32 of 37

under the label threshold

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 Empower 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
Earned wage access	Compensation and total rewards	0%	58 of 61	100%	4	under 10 labels · led by Tapcheck at 29%
Coaching platforms	Learning and development	0%	69 of 116	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Empower 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 Empower across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained1 label1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Brigit and Empower (subscription model): These charge $9.99–$14.99/month” Mistral Small · Earned wage access · negative prompt · hard 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

“Higher Risk: Direct-to-consumer apps (... Albert, Empower, Possible)” Kimi K2 · Earned wage access · negative prompt · soft negative

“providers to be cautious about include: ... 4. Empower” Llama 4 Maverick · Earned wage access · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Empower, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Empower was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

DailyPay8 of 101Not in the top three

Brigit7 of 100Not in the top three

Dave7 of 100Not in the top three

EarnIn7 of 100Not in the top three

MoneyLion7 of 100Not in the top three

Payactiv3 of 102Not in the top three

Branch2 of 100Not in the top three

Affinity1 of 100Not in the top three

Albert1 of 100Not in the top three

BetterUp1 of 100Not 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 Empower. 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 10 of the 10 answers that named Empower and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ilo.org6

lendedu.com6

pdloans247.com6

enterprise.chime.com5

ftassociation.org5

aeaweb.org4

bamboohr.com3

congress.gov3

consumerscu.org3

expressloans.com3

Forty-four of the forty-four domain citations in answers naming Empower came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ilo.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/Earned%20wage%20access.pdf6

lendedu.com/blog/earned-wage-access-apps6

pdloans247.com/earned-wage-access-ewa-financial-lifesaver6

enterprise.chime.com/blog/best-earned-wage-access-providers-20265

ftassociation.org/just-the-facts-earned-wage-access5

aeaweb.org/conference/2026/program/paper/d3E2EQTt4

bamboohr.com/blog/earned-wage-access3

congress.gov/crs-product/IF127273

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Empower

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Empower; a claim can dispute any of them.

Empower by Ringover 1

Is this your product?

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 Empower'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 Empower, 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 empoweredfranchisee.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.