Every category where a model named Papaya Global 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	13%	2 of 66	17%	36	accepted challenger
HR compliance and policy management	Core HR and payroll	0%	32 of 84	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 16%
Payroll software	Core HR and payroll	0%	20 of 43	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 28%
Contingent workforce management	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	36 of 97	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by SimpleVMS at 35%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	1	1	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	2	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	1	2	5
Mistral Small	1	2	0	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	0	2	5
Llama 4 Maverick	2	1	1	0	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	1	0	4
Kimi K2	1	1	1	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	3	0	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	0	2

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

Direct16 labels1

Paraphrase31 labels7

Comparative45 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained9 labels2

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative28 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative133 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 16 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.

“Papaya Global: Top pure-play; 160+ countries; $12-25/employee/month; excels in centralized reporting, compliance, and analytics” Grok 4.1 Fast · Global payroll · comparative prompt · first choice

“Papaya is often cited as the best overall solution for mid-sized and larger firms with international operations.” Mistral Small · Global payroll · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Papaya Global offers more robust infrastructure if you anticipate rapid growth or complex multi-country needs” MiniMax M2.5 · Global payroll · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Papaya Global - Best overall provider with the deepest payroll infrastructure across 160+ countries.” Llama 4 Maverick · Global payroll · paraphrase 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.

“Platforms with Notable Concerns ... Papaya Global - Trustpilot rating: Concerning 3.2/5 with reports of missed payments and hidden fees” Kimi K2 · Global payroll · negative prompt · hard negative

“Best avoided if: Scaling across many countries or needing reliable payroll in complex markets.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Global payroll · negative prompt · hard negative

“Moderate Caution – Contract/Implementation Risks... documented implementation failures and partner-model risks” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Global payroll · negative prompt · soft negative

“Papaya Global (Exercise Caution Regarding: Service Variability & Hidden Partner Costs)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Global payroll · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Papaya Global, over the 133 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Papaya Global was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Deel120 of 13340Compare →

Remote108 of 13325Not in the top three

Rippling89 of 13310Not in the top three

Oyster59 of 1332Compare →

Multiplier41 of 1332Not in the top three

G-P36 of 1334Not in the top three

ADP30 of 1337Not in the top three

Velocity Global22 of 1332Not in the top three

Gusto19 of 1332Not in the top three

RemoFirst18 of 1332Not 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 Papaya Global. 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 113 of the 133 answers that named Papaya Global and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

remote.com52

gartner.com46

peoplemanagingpeople.com44

deel.com41

globaleorservices.org40

teamed.global37

whichpayroll.com36

eorhq.com33

topsourceworldwide.com29

papayaglobal.comYour site26

358 of the 384 domain citations in answers naming Papaya Global came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

remote.com/blog/payroll/best-global-payroll-providers46

gartner.com/reviews/market/employer-of-record-eor41

globaleorservices.org/solutions/eor-comparison26

whichpayroll.com/best-global-payroll23

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-global-payroll-solutions22

eco.com/support/en/articles/16402404-best-global-payroll-software-202621

teamed.global/compare/best-eor-providers-202621

employsome.com/employer-of-record/best-eor20

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Papaya Global

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

Papaya 1

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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 papayaglobal.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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