Gusto vs Paylocity
Zero of fourteen models named Gusto first on the direct prompt; zero named Paylocity. Gusto was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Paylocity by twelve and Gusto carries 43 labels and Paylocity 31, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in twenty-one categories this edition.
Named in nineteen categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the HRIS and HCM platforms page.
By framing
GustoFirst choices, of fourteen modelsPaylocity
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Gusto and Paylocity were named in the same answer eighty-eight times, of the 855 answers naming Gusto and the 279 naming Paylocity. In those answers Paylocity took the first choice four times and Gusto thirteen.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | ||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | | | |
| Grok 4.20 | | | | | | |
| Mistral Small | | | ||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | | | |
| Llama 4 Maverick | | |||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | | |
| Kimi K2 | | | | |||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | | |||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | | | | |
| GPT-6 Luna | | | ||||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | | |
Gusto Paylocity first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Gusto on the left and Paylocity on the right.The direct prompt
Neither was the first choice, one was named
9 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
5 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Gusto0%#– of 12Paylocity0%#10 of 12What the models said about Gusto
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“Users report frequent failures in paying payroll taxes and lackluster customer support, making it a risky choice” Mistral Small · negative prompt · hard negative
What the models said about Paylocity
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“Deteriorating service — even users who were historically satisfied report significant declines in service quality” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“For most mid-sized B2B companies, Paylocity would be the strongest default recommendation.” Perplexity Sonar · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.