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1 category · Named, not ranked

Safeguard Global

14Judge labels

1First choices

2Negative labels

10 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

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Safeguard Global was named 6 times in Global payroll, where Deel led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market11 of 66

under the label threshold

Enterprise24 of 54

under the label threshold

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 Safeguard 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	2%	11 of 66	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Deel at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Safeguard 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 Safeguard 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	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

Direct4 labels1

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“For broad global coverage with compliance depth: Safeguard Global or Globalization Partners.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Global payroll · direct prompt · first choice

“Safeguard Global is presented by another source as the leading EOR provider for mid-market companies in 2026” Perplexity Sonar · Global payroll · direct prompt · alternative

“Safeguard Global & G-P (Globalization Partners): Best for Enterprise and Complex Expansion” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Global payroll · comparative 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 Safeguard Global, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Safeguard Global was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Deel14 of 144Not in the top three

Remote13 of 144Not in the top three

Papaya Global11 of 142Not in the top three

G-P11 of 141Not in the top three

Multiplier6 of 140Not in the top three

Oyster6 of 140Not in the top three

Rippling6 of 140Not in the top three

CloudPay5 of 140Not in the top three

Velocity Global4 of 140Not in the top three

ADP Global Payroll3 of 141Not 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 Safeguard 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 11 of the 14 answers that named Safeguard Global and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

teamed.global8

gartner.com7

topsourceworldwide.com7

hr.software6

safeguardglobal.comYour site6

whichpayroll.com6

papayaglobal.com5

deel.com4

employsome.com4

remote.com4

Fifty-one of the fifty-seven domain citations in answers naming Safeguard Global came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/employer-of-record-eor7

safeguardglobal.com/resources/blog/best-employer-of-record-providers5

remote.com/blog/payroll/best-global-payroll-providers4

teamed.global/compare/best-eor-providers-20264

whichpayroll.com/best-global-payroll4

employsome.com/employer-of-record/best-eor3

papayaglobal.com/blog/top-10-best-employer-of-record-services3

saasworthy.com/blog/eor-vs-global-payroll3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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

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