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Contractor payments for enterprise buyers

Asked as “contractor payments and 1099 platform”, and as “freelancer payout software”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 49 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
24%
Contested · Routable 18%
24Tipalti18Routable12Papaya Global45others

24% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Tipalti24%2%45accepted challenger
02Routable18%0%20accepted challenger
03Papaya Global12%5%39accepted challenger
04Deel10%22%49accepted challenger
05Worksuite8%0%28accepted challenger
06WorkMarket8%23%13accepted challenger
07Rippling4%14%29accepted challenger
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11Gusto0%62%13criticized challenger
10Wise Business0%45%11criticized challenger
09Payoneer Workforce Management0%44%18criticized challenger
08Remote0%16%32accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.
All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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01Tipalti24%
02Routable18%
03Papaya Global12%
04Deel10%
05Worksuite8%
06WorkMarket8%
07Rippling4%
08Remote0%
09Payoneer Workforce Management0%
10Wise Business0%
11Gusto0%

What they warned about

Two of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Deel
22%
11 of 49 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“Avoid These If Predictability Is Critical - Deel / Remote / Oyster” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
Gusto
62%
8 of 13 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Domestic SMB-Centric Payroll Platforms (e.g., Gusto, Square Payroll, QuickBooks Payroll) ... they are not designed to support large enterprise architectures” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Remote
16%
5 of 32 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Avoid or De-prioritize for Your Needs - Per-contractor platforms like Remote ($29/user)” Grok 4.20, budget prompt
Payoneer Workforce Management
44%
8 of 18 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“PayPal and Payoneer can charge exorbitant transaction fees or bury high foreign exchange (FX) markups” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt

What they cite

Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

69 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1049 links across 275 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

45 answers · 47 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Worksuite44 answers · 59 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Remote39 answers · 43 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Papaya Global34 answers · 48 citations · 11 models
vendor site · G234 answers · 37 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Guideflow30 answers · 32 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Wingspan25 answers · 33 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Routable24 answers · 44 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Deel24 answers · 39 citations · 9 models
vendor site · G220 answers · 31 citations · 8 models
vendor site · 4dev.com16 answers · 17 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Tipalti15 answers · 24 citations · 10 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best contractor payments and 1099 platform”, “contractor payment platforms”, “contractor payments and 1099 platform”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Tipalti tipalti.com24%49018,100381213,652$83,3631203
Routable routable.com18%221,3001145,890$1,10872
Papaya Global papayaglobal.com12%491,60050189,744$8,30911
Deel deel.com10%17240,5001,210307,175$330,608118
Worksuite worksuite.com8%3688058,9414
WorkMarket workmarket.com8%2412,10015411,877
Rippling rippling.com4%90301,00017,886712,399$42,013115
Wingspan wingspan.app4%2349,5007,4742,634$161
Trolley trolley.com2%1849,50027,83220,61030
Hyperwallet hyperwallet.com2%1112,10045539,845

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 22 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (4dev.com, routable.com, tipalti.com, worksuite.com). The first result for “best contractor payments and 1099 platform” is wise.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best contractor payments and 1099 platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which freelancer payout software would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade contractor payment platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best contractor payments and 1099 platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a contractor payments and 1099 platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which contractor payment platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Worksuite
Three alternativesDeel, Routable, Trolley
TalentDesk, WorksuiteChanged
Two alternativesDeel HR, WorkMarket
Deel
Four alternativesRemote, Tipalti, Wise Business, Worksuite
against: PayPal MassPay
Worksuite
Two alternativesPapaya Global, Routable
no first choiceagainst: Deel
GPT-5.4 miniTipalti
Two alternativesDeel, Rippling
TipaltiHeld
Two alternativesDeel, Payoneer Workforce Management
Deel
Four alternativesBILL, Routable, Tipalti, Workday VNDLY
Worksome
One alternativeTipalti
against: Deel
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashTipalti
Five alternativesDeel, Rippling, Routable, WorkMarket, Worksuite
TipaltiHeld
Three alternativesDeel, Papaya Global, Worksuite
Deel, Papaya Global
Four alternativesRippling, Tipalti, Wingspan, Worksuite
Routable, Wingspan
Two alternativesTipalti, Worksuite
against: Deel, Remote, Rippling
Rippling
Three alternativesDeel, Remote, Tipalti
against: BILL, Fiverr Enterprise, Gusto, Papaya Global, PayPal MassPay, Payoneer Workforce Management, QuickBooks Payroll, Square Payroll, Upwork, Wise Business, Zelle
Perplexity SonarDeel
Two alternativesTipalti, Worksuite
against: Hyperwallet, Payoneer Workforce Management
TipaltiChanged
Four alternativesLumanu, Payoneer Workforce Management, TalentDesk, Trolley
Deel
Four alternativesPapaya Global, Remote, Tipalti, Worksuite
against: Oracle Textura, Rippling
Deel
Three alternativesPapaya Global, Tipalti, WorkMarket
no first choiceagainst: Deel, Gusto, PayPal MassPay, Payoneer Workforce Management, Revolut Business, Stripe Connect, Wise Business
Grok 4.20Rippling
Two alternativesDeel, WorkMarket
against: Gusto
Papaya GlobalChanged
Three alternativesDeel, Rippling, Tipalti
Deel
Four alternativesPapaya Global, Remote, Tipalti, Worksuite
against: Gusto, Payoneer Workforce Management, QuickBooks Contractor Payments, Wise Business
WorkMarket
Three alternativesRoutable, Tipalti, Worksuite
against: Deel, Gusto, Remote, Rippling
Routable
Five alternativesDeel, Remote, Tipalti, Wingspan, Worksuite
against: CXC Global, Deel, Gusto, Payoneer Workforce Management, Rippling
Mistral SmallPapaya Global, RoutableHyperwallet, Papaya GlobalChanged
Two alternativesTalentDesk, Trolley
Papaya Global
Four alternativesDeel, Payoneer Workforce Management, Tipalti, Worksuite
Routable, WorkMarket
One alternativeRemote
against: Deel
no first choiceagainst: Cash App, Venmo, Zelle
DeepSeek V4 FlashTipalti
Five alternativesDeel, Papaya Global, Remote, Routable, Wingspan
DeelChanged
Two alternativesPapaya Global, Worksuite
Papaya Global
Five alternativesDeel, Rippling, Tipalti, Trolley, Worksuite
against: Payoneer Workforce Management
WorkMarket
Two alternativesRoutable, Wingspan
against: Deel, Found, Gusto, Oyster, Paychex, Paycor, QuickBooks Contractor Payments, Remote, SecureCrews
no first choice
Four alternativesDeel, Remote, Rippling, Tipalti
against: Brookson Group, Conduent, Deel, Fiverr Enterprise, Freelancer, Native Teams, Ontop, Parasol, PayPal MassPay, Payoneer Workforce Management, Plentific, Skrill, Upwork, Wise Business, WorkMarket
Llama 4 MaverickRoutable
Three alternativesRemote, Rise Works, Worksuite
TrolleyChanged
Five alternativesHyperwallet, Papaya Global, Payoneer Workforce Management, Tipalti, Wise Business
no first choiceRoutable
Two alternativesPapaya Global, WorkMarket
no first choicenothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashTipalti
Two alternativesDeel, Papaya Global
WorkMarketChanged
Three alternativesDeel, Papaya Global, Rippling
Deel
Five alternativesPapaya Global, Remote, Rippling, Tipalti, Worksuite
Triumfe
Three alternativesDeel, Papaya Global, Rippling
against: ADP
Tipalti
Three alternativesDeel, Remote, Rippling
against: Bonsai, Kantata
against: Ontop, Topup Two Rich, Topup.com
Kimi K2Routable, Tipalti
Three alternativesDots, Papaya Global, Worksuite
against: BILL
WorksuiteChanged
Two alternativesDeel, Papaya Global
Deel
Five alternativesADP Enterprise Contractor Services, Papaya Global, Remote, Tipalti, Worksuite
Routable, Wingspanagainst: Tipalti, WorkMarketno first choiceagainst: Multiplier, Papaya Global, Remoteagainst: BILL, Deel, Fiverr Enterprise, Gusto, Jobber, Melio, Payoneer Workforce Management, SAP Ariba, Upwork, Wise Business, WorkMarket
GLM 4.7 FlashXPapaya Global, Routable
Four alternativesDeel, Remote, Rippling, Tipalti
TipaltiChanged
Six alternativesConnectPay, Deel, Papaya Global, Payoneer Workforce Management, Remote, Stripe Connect
Papaya Global
Seven alternatives4dev.com, Deel, Remote, Rippling, Tipalti, Wise Business, Worksuite
Tipalti
Two alternativesPapaya Global, Routable
against: Deel, Remote
no first choiceagainst: CXC Global, G-P, GCPay, Maestro
MiniMax M2.5Papaya Global
Three alternativesRemote, Routable, Tipalti
Papaya Global, TipaltiChanged
Three alternativesDeel, Payoneer Workforce Management, Rippling
Papaya Global
Five alternativesDeel, Remote, Rippling, Tipalti, Worksuite
Deel
Four alternativesRemote, Rippling, Tipalti, WorkMarket
Deel
Two alternativesBoomTax, Nickel
against: Airwallex, CXC Global
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:23yes179 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:30yes25 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:17yes2261 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:50yes207 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 18:54yes3619 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:25yes53 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 20:21yes1953 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:11yes54 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:00yes1740 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:21yes1532 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:01yes1485 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:56yes1230 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:53yes99 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:12yes37 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:54yes1521 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:15yes206 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 19:57yes4219 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:38yes54 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:55yes2936 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:58yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:17yes1033 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:30yes1731 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:34yes1314 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:06yes519 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:38yes99 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:38yes514 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:19yes1954 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:47yes209 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 19:34yes2715 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:40yes57 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:50yes1626 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:01yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:13yes515 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:03yes1535 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:20yes970 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:47yes519 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:28yes1811 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:02yes35 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:18yes1348 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:53yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 18:38yes3820 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:58yes55 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:34yes2533 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:06yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:34no031 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:15yes2239 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:19yes2360 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:25yes2057 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:37yes1810 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:56yes311 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:44no019 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:39yes2011 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 17:53yes1314 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:20no08 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 19:55yes2869 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:43yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:50yes1554 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:20yes1233 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:44yes1474 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:01yes521 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:18yes1610 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:35yes57 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:39yes1928 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:58yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 17:53yes1815 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:46yes138 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 19:19yes2865 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:45yes95 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:51yes1851 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:58yes3039 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:33yes3360 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:25yes1842 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
ADP WorkMarket read as WorkMarket
Bill.com read as BILL
PayPal read as PayPal MassPay
Payoneer read as Payoneer Workforce Management
QuickBooks read as QuickBooks Contractor Payments
Stripe read as Stripe Connect
TalentDesk.io read as TalentDesk
Unresolved, counted raw
Aatrix
Brookson Group
Conduent
Contractor-of-record
Deel HR
Freelancer
Lumanu
Maestro
Oracle Textura
Parasol
SecureCrews
Topup Two Rich
Topup.com
Triumfe
Warp
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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