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QuickBooks Workforce

6Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

4 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

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. QuickBooks Workforce was named 1 time in Payroll software, where Rippling led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business12 of 34

under the label threshold

Mid-market30 of 43

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In payroll software · 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 QuickBooks Workforce 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
Payroll software	Core HR and payroll	0%	30 of 43	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 28%

Movement

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

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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 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.

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as QuickBooks Workforce, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and QuickBooks Workforce was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Gusto6 of 65Not in the top three

OnPay6 of 61Not in the top three

Rippling5 of 60Not in the top three

Patriot Payroll3 of 60Not in the top three

Square Payroll3 of 60Not in the top three

ADP RUN2 of 60Not in the top three

SurePayroll2 of 60Not in the top three

Zoho People1 of 61Not in the top three

ADP1 of 60Not in the top three

BambooHR1 of 60Not 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 QuickBooks Workforce. 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 4 of the 6 answers that named QuickBooks Workforce and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com4

adp.com2

fitsmallbusiness.com2

learn.g2.com2

onpay.com2

patriotsoftware.com2

payrollsoftwareguide.com2

peoplemanagingpeople.com2

smallbusinesstools.org2

technologyadvice.com2

Twenty-two of the twenty-two domain citations in answers naming QuickBooks Workforce came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

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

adp.com/resources/articles-and-insights/articles/t/the-best-payroll-software-providers-for2

learn.g2.com/best-payroll-software2

onpay.com/insights/best-small-business-payroll-software-picks2

patriotsoftware.com/payroll/best-payroll-software-for-small-businesses2

payrollsoftwareguide.com/reviews2

smallbusinesstools.org/guides/best-payroll-software-small-business2

applicantstack.com/free-onboarding-software1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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