Global payroll and employer of record · RankedHire with Columbus
Hire with Columbus is an employer of record (EOR) service for businesses hiring international employees and companies expanding globally · hirewithcolumbus.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Deel is first at 38%.
Deel is first at 26%.
No model named it for this buyer.
Why models recommend it
“For a limited budget, RemoFirst and Hire with Columbus offer the lowest published rates while maintaining reasonable service levels.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For a limited budget, Hire with Columbus offers the lowest entry point at $179/month.”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“If you need the absolute lowest cost, Hire with Columbus is the top recommendation”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Hire with Columbus at ~$179/mo is the lowest published rate”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Hire with Columbus, over the 13 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 6 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Hire with Columbus's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Businesses hiring international employees and companies expanding globally
- Price stated
- Starting from $179/month per employee
- Starting price
- 179
- Free plan or trial
- Your first month is completely free, that's a $179+ value we'll cover personally.
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 13 of the 13 answers that named Hire with Columbus and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty-four of the seventy-one domain citations in answers naming Hire with Columbus came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template or tool | 36 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 20 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 7 | undated | Global payroll |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page hirewithcolumbus.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.