Payroll software · Named, not rankedWave Payroll
Wave Payroll is payroll software from Wave that businesses use to run payroll for employees or contractors · waveapps.com ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Wave Payroll has 5.
Why models recommend it
“Wave or Payroll4Free might be ideal solutions”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“users report a disruptive migration ... "The migration was a disaster"”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“If you use Wave, verify their current stability with the Check integration before committing.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Budget-friendly, but limited features and support for complex needs.”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Wave Payroll, over the 13 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 3 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 2 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | 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 Wave Payroll's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- employees or contractors
- Price stated
- add-on from $25/month
- Starting price
- 25
- Certifications
- PCI DSS
- Customers named
- Dae
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 10 of the 13 answers that named Wave Payroll and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty-two of the thirty-two domain citations in answers naming Wave Payroll 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 | 0 | 1 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 417 | undated | Payroll software | ||
| Comparison | 38 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 22 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 16 | undated | |||
| News or press | 9 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 2 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page waveapps.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.