Public AI recommendation index
Payroll for startups
Based on 4 valid discovery answers for November 03, 2026.
- AIs:
- ChatGPT and Gemini
- Method:
- ChatGPT answers are read from its public web interface. Gemini answers come from Google's model API, which may answer from the model alone, without searching the web.
- Questions asked:
- “best payroll software for startups” and “payroll and HR platform for remote startups”
- 1Gustonamed in 2 answers
- 2Ripplingnamed in 2 answers
- 3Contractor managementnamed in 1 answer
- 4Contractor paymentsnamed in 1 answer
- 5Deelnamed in 1 answer
- 6Deel vs. Remotenamed in 1 answer
- 7Employer of Recordnamed in 1 answer
- 8Employer of Record servicesnamed in 1 answer
- 9Global HR administrationnamed in 1 answer
- 10Global employment and EORnamed in 1 answer
- 11International payrollnamed in 1 answer
- 12Justworksnamed in 1 answer
- 13Manage laptopsnamed in 1 answer
- 14OnPaynamed in 1 answer
- 15Payrollnamed in 1 answer
- 16Payroll Providers with R&D Tax Creditsnamed in 1 answer
- 17Payroll and HR administrationnamed in 1 answer
- 18Remotenamed in 1 answer
- 19Straightforward pricingnamed in 1 answer
- 20Veemnamed in 1 answer
Frequently cited sources
- deel.com (2 citations)
- gusto.com (2 citations)
- rho.co (2 citations)
- rippling.com (2 citations)
- hrpresso.com (1 citation)
- itechguides.com (1 citation)
- justworks.com (1 citation)
- onpay.com (1 citation)
- remote.com (1 citation)
- stackbytrade.com (1 citation)
History
One row per round of questions. A round is published only when every question was answered validly on every AI.
| Round | Valid answers | Most named |
|---|---|---|
| November 03, 2026 | 4 | Gusto, Rippling, and Contractor management |
AI crawlers and agents across the web
Largest shares of AI crawler requests across Cloudflare in the last 28 days: Googlebot 23.5%, ClaudeBot 12.9%, Meta-ExternalAgent 9.3%, and Applebot 8.2%.
Of 115,468 sites Cloudflare scanned on November 02, 2026, 4.3% serve pages as Markdown to agents, 8.9% declare Content Signals and 0.6% publish an MCP server card.