Every category where a model named Clair for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Earned wage access	Compensation and total rewards	7%	6 of 59	0%	11	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Clair yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Clair across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	1	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct8 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labels1

Comparative8 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained6 labels3

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 5 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Tapcheck and Clair are frequently highlighted as the most affordable and easiest to implement for small businesses.” Mistral Small · Earned wage access · budget prompt · first choice

“The best earned wage access provider for a company with a limited budget is Clair” Llama 4 Maverick · Earned wage access · budget prompt · first choice

“1. Clair (Best Overall for Native Payroll Integrations)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Earned wage access · budget prompt · first choice

“Zero employer cost, fee-free for employees, API-first—great if tech-savvy B2B with US W2 staff.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Earned wage access · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Clair, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Clair was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Payactiv20 of 261Compare →

DailyPay16 of 2610Compare →

ZayZoon15 of 266Compare →

Tapcheck14 of 265Compare →

Branch12 of 260Not among the top eight

Rain11 of 261Compare →

EarnIn7 of 260Not among the top eight

Chime Workplace5 of 260Not among the top eight

Immediate5 of 260Not among the top eight

Wagestream3 of 260Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Clair. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 21 of the 26 answers that named Clair and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

enterprise.chime.com19

fintechspecs.com14

juicefin.com14

pickmysoft.com13

hrtechsaas.com12

best-earned-wage-access-providers-usa.lovable.app10

guideflow.com10

us.fitgap.com10

hr.software9

market.us8

No domain is on file for Clair, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

enterprise.chime.com/blog/best-earned-wage-access-providers-202619

fintechspecs.com/blog/best-earned-wage-access-providers-platforms14

juicefin.com/resources/top-earned-wage-access-companies-in-202414

pickmysoft.com/blog/best-earned-wage-access-software13

hrtechsaas.com/blog/best-earned-wage-access-providers-employers12

best-earned-wage-access-providers-usa.lovable.app/10

guideflow.com/blog/earned-wage-access-software10

market.us/report/earned-wage-access-providers-market8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Clair

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Clair; a claim can dispute any of them.

BambooHR + Clair 1

Follow Clair

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Clair's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Clair, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

With a new claim: the vendor brief

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Clair by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Clair is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Clair, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at the vendor's own domain is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.