Every category where a model named RemoFirst 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	11%	4 of 66	11%	19	accepted challenger
Contingent workforce management	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	26 of 97	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by SimpleVMS at 35%
Payroll software	Core HR and payroll	0%	31 of 43	33%	3	under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 28%
HRIS and HCM platforms	Core HR and payroll	0%	26 of 46	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for RemoFirst 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 RemoFirst 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	0	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	1	0	3
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	1	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	2	0	3
Kimi K2	0	2	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	2	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

Direct9 labels2

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative16 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained26 labels13

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative58 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 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.

“RemoFirst at $199/employee/month offers the best balance of affordability, global coverage (193 countries), and transparent pricing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Global payroll · budget prompt · first choice

“The best employer of record for a company with a limited budget is Remofirst, which positions itself as the budget-friendly option” Llama 4 Maverick · Global payroll · budget prompt · first choice

“the strongest pick in these results is RemoFirst, because multiple reviews identify it as the most affordable EOR option” Perplexity Sonar · Global payroll · budget prompt · first choice

“RemoFirst offers the best balance of affordability ($199/month), transparent pricing, and global coverage” MiniMax M2.5 · 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.

“RemoFirst's trade-offs include limited coverage compared to competitors, limited support with slow processing times, and onboarding that can take weeks instead of days” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Global payroll · budget prompt · soft negative

“Often more limited feature sets compared to Deel or Remote; pricing can be less transparent.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Payroll software · comparative prompt · soft negative

“Limited reporting, fewer integrations, basic reporting capabilities, limited customization” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Global payroll · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as RemoFirst, over the 58 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and RemoFirst was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Deel47 of 5812Not in the top three

Remote44 of 585Not in the top three

Multiplier27 of 581Not in the top three

Rippling25 of 581Not in the top three

Oyster23 of 580Not in the top three

Papaya Global18 of 582Not in the top three

Remote People13 of 582Not in the top three

Hire with Columbus11 of 587Not in the top three

Native Teams11 of 582Not in the top three

G-P11 of 581Not 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 RemoFirst. 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 53 of the 58 answers that named RemoFirst and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com33

remofirst.comYour site29

gartner.com26

herohunt.ai19

teamed.global19

remotepeople.com18

employborderless.com17

eorhq.com16

eoroverview.com15

hr.software15

178 of the 207 domain citations in answers naming RemoFirst came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/employer-of-record-eor25

remofirst.com/post/employer-of-record-companies21

herohunt.ai/blog/the-best-employer-of-record-providers19

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-eor-for-small-business19

pin.com/blog/best-eor-providers13

teamed.global/compare/best-eor-providers-202613

getthera.com/blog/best-employer-of-record-services12

topsourceworldwide.com/insights/best-employer-of-record-providers12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as RemoFirst

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

Remofirst 5RemoFirst/RemotePeople 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 remofirst.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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