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Multiplier

62Judge labels
1First choices
9Negative 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
2% in Global payroll for mid-market buyers
Rank 9 of 66 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 24 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Multiplier 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
Global payroll and employer of recordCore HR and payroll2%9 of 668%24accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Multiplier 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 Multiplier across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510203
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.1 Fast02215
Mistral Small01012
DeepSeek V4 Flash01102
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
MiniMax M2.503003

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
Direct10 labels1
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative23 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained13 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative9 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative62 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 3 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.

“Multiplier serves companies from startups to mid-market and enterprise across 150+ countries, combining flat-rate pricing well below most competitors” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Global payroll · direct prompt · first choice
“Oyster or Multiplier | Highly standardized benefits packages and cost-effective pricing structures tailored for SMBs.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Global payroll · comparative prompt · alternative
“Multiplier is also a good option, particularly for companies with a presence in Asia-Pacific markets.” Llama 4 Maverick · Global payroll · direct prompt · alternative
“Serves mid-market companies with competitive flat-rate pricing and coverage across 150+ countries.” MiniMax M2.5 · Global payroll · direct prompt · alternative

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.

“Avoid Multiplier, Talent500, Payoneer (for global payroll), Rippling (outside the US), G2O, and Foxhire” Mistral Small · Global payroll · negative prompt · hard negative
“Higher cost but excellent reviews; skip for strict budgets.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Global payroll · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Multiplier, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Multiplier was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Deel58 of 6224Not in the top three
Remote55 of 6212Not in the top three
Papaya Global41 of 627Not in the top three
Oyster41 of 623Not in the top three
Rippling36 of 622Not in the top three
RemoFirst27 of 627Not in the top three
G-P16 of 622Not in the top three
Velocity Global11 of 620Not in the top three
Remote People7 of 621Not in the top three
ADP7 of 620Not 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 Multiplier. 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 58 of the 62 answers that named Multiplier and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com31
eorhq.com29
teamed.global28
peoplemanagingpeople.com25
globaleorservices.org23
remote.com23
remofirst.com18
remotepeople.com18
employsome.com16
hr.software16

227 of the 227 domain citations in answers naming Multiplier came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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