Every category where a model named Paychex 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
Time and attendance	Core HR and payroll	0%	40 of 90	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by UKG Ready at 15%
Earned wage access	Compensation and total rewards	0%	30 of 61	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Tapcheck at 29%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1
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	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative18 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative23 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“check if your employer offers a direct EWA program through their payroll provider (like ADP, Paychex, or Gusto)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Earned wage access · negative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Paychex, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Paychex was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ADP14 of 190Not in the top three

Rippling9 of 190Not in the top three

Gusto8 of 195Not in the top three

BambooHR8 of 190Not in the top three

Workday7 of 190Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors6 of 190Not in the top three

Dayforce4 of 191Not in the top three

OnPay4 of 191Not in the top three

QuickBooks Payroll4 of 191Not in the top three

UKG Pro4 of 191Not 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 Paychex. 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 14 of the 19 answers that named Paychex and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com7

bamboohr.com6

acciyo.com5

comprehensive.io5

forbes.com5

g2.com5

trustpilot.com5

gartner.com4

learn.g2.com4

peoplemanagingpeople.com4

Fifty of the fifty domain citations in answers naming Paychex came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bamboohr.com/resources/guides/payroll-first-fails5

comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-management-software5

acciyo.com/adp-payroll-reviews-complaints-analysis-is-it-worth-the-high-cost-and-poor-cust3

business.com/categories/time-and-attendance-software3

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-payroll-services3

gartner.com/reviews/market/time-and-attendance-software3

ontheclock.com/blog/payroll-hidden-fees3

reddit.com/r/Payroll/comments/1kswpkg/adp_is_worst_payroll_company_for_small_bussiness3

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 Paychex'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 Paychex, 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 paychex.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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