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1 category · Named, not ranked

Hire with Columbus

12Judge labels

6First choices

0Negative labels

9 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.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Hire with Columbus was named 7 times in Global payroll, where Deel led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business6 of 42

under the label threshold

Mid-market7 of 66

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In global payroll · 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 Hire with Columbus 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
Global payroll and employer of record	Core HR and payroll	9%	7 of 66	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Deel at 22%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labels6

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 label1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 7 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.

“Offers EOR and payroll services from $179 per month with no setup fees, with onboarding completed in 24 to 48 hours” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Global payroll · budget prompt · first choice

“If you want the absolute lowest entry-level pricing, go with Hire with Columbus.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Global payroll · budget prompt · first choice

“Simple, small team (1–20) | Hire with Columbus (highest warmest Reddit sentiment)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Global payroll · negative prompt · first choice

“Hire with Columbus stands out as one of the top Employer of Record (EOR) options” Grok 4.1 Fast · Global payroll · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Hire with Columbus, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hire with Columbus was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

RemoFirst11 of 122Not in the top three

Deel7 of 120Not in the top three

Remote7 of 120Not in the top three

Tarmack6 of 122Not in the top three

Remote People5 of 120Not in the top three

Multiplier4 of 120Not in the top three

Native Teams2 of 121Not in the top three

Playroll2 of 120Not in the top three

ADP Celergo1 of 120Not in the top three

Check1 of 120Not 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 Hire with Columbus. 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 12 answers that named Hire with Columbus and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hirewithcolumbus.comYour site9

eoroverview.com8

tarmack.com8

remofirst.com7

peoplemanagingpeople.com6

employborderless.com5

herohunt.ai5

reddit.com5

eorcompare.ai4

hr.software4

Fifty-two of the sixty-one domain citations in answers naming Hire with Columbus came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

hirewithcolumbus.com/best/cheapest-employer-of-record9

tarmack.com/blog/cheapest-employer-of-record-solutions8

eoroverview.com/best/cheapest-employer-of-record6

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-eor-for-small-business6

herohunt.ai/blog/the-best-employer-of-record-providers5

remofirst.com/post/employer-of-record-companies5

eorcompare.ai/blog/affordable-employer-of-record4

employborderless.com/review/cheapest-employer-of-record3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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