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Index Vendors › ZayZoon · September 2026 Edition
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ZayZoon

90Judge labels
32First choices
1Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
55% in Earned wage access for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 61 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 34 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.
In earned wage access · 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 ZayZoon 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Earned wage accessCompensation and total rewards26%2 of 610%34accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ZayZoon 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 ZayZoon across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501102
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash12003
Perplexity Sonar11103
Grok 4.1 Fast21104
Mistral Small11204
DeepSeek V4 Flash21003
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash11002
Kimi K212104
GLM 4.7 FlashX11103
MiniMax M2.511103

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
Direct23 labels11
Paraphrase10 labels7
Comparative26 labels10not counted in share
Budget-constrained22 labels14
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative5 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative90 labels in all, every segment counted; 32 of the 45 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.

“start with ZayZoon (SMB-specific, free to offer) or Tapcheck (best overall, free to offer)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Earned wage access · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend ZayZoon or Tapcheck as top on-demand pay (earned wage access, or EWA) benefits” Grok 4.1 Fast · Earned wage access · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“the strongest fit is usually ZayZoon or Tapcheck, with ZayZoon the safer default” Perplexity Sonar · Earned wage access · budget prompt · first choice
“ZayZoon and Gusto Wallet are standout choices for mid-market B2B companies” Mistral Small · Earned wage access · direct 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ZayZoon, over the 90 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ZayZoon was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
DailyPay63 of 9018Not in the top three
Payactiv58 of 906Not in the top three
Branch39 of 900Not in the top three
EarnIn37 of 901Not in the top three
Chime Workplace22 of 901Not in the top three
Clair15 of 903Not in the top three
Immediate15 of 900Not in the top three
Wagestream8 of 901Not 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 ZayZoon. 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 81 of the 90 answers that named ZayZoon and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

enterprise.chime.com75
guideflow.com58
us.fitgap.com49
juicefin.com45
g2.com44
fintechspecs.com40
best-earned-wage-access-providers-usa.lovable.app38
hrtechsaas.com37
tapcheck.com33
pickmysoft.com31

450 of the 450 domain citations in answers naming ZayZoon came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

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

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