Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 8 → 25 of 78
2 categories · Named, not rankedTrolley
17Judge labels
1First choices
0Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Trolley was named 6 times in Contractor payments and 1 other category, where Tipalti led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business26 of 81
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market20 of 98
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise11 of 75
2%3 labels
under the label threshold
In contractor payments · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Trolley 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contractor payments | Spend and procurement | 0% | 20 of 98 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Tipalti at 22% | ▼−7Since September 2026: 7% → 0%, −7 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Embedded payments platforms | Receivables and billing | 0% | 83 of 110 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Stripe Connect at 53% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Trolley held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · Contractor payments · by segment
Mid-market▼−7Since September 2026: 7% → 0%, −7 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 5 → 21 of 85
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 9 → 19 of 70
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contractor payments | 7% | 0% | ▼−7Since September 2026: 7% → 0%, −7 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 20 of 98 |
| Embedded payments | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 83 of 110, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 10 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Trolley across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Trolley across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct9 labelsNone
Paraphrase5 labels1
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.
“Trolley is a highly user-friendly, cost-effective alternative to legacy AP systems.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Contractor payments · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Trolley is frequently positioned as a payouts engine with automated 1099-NEC” Muse Glimmer 30B · Contractor payments · direct prompt · alternative
“Trolley - Best for Performance-Based Payouts” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Contractor payments · 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 Trolley, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Trolley was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Trolley, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Trolley was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Trolley. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 16 of the 17 answers that named Trolley and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
tipalti.com11
theindustryleaders.org6
wingspan.app6
wise.com6
worksuite.com6
airwallex.com5
deel.com5
learn.g2.com5
guideflow.com4
trolley.comYour site4
Fifty-four of the fifty-eight domain citations in answers naming Trolley came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
trolley.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Trolley takes 0% of first choices and Tipalti takes 22%.ShowHide
Search and answers
trolley.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Trolley takes 0% of first choices and Tipalti takes 22%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “contractor payment platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “contractor payments and 1099 platform”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 49,500 a month (“trolley”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 27,832 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 20,610 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,564 · 22 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 934
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 20 of 98 in contractor payments
Segment leader
22%
Tipalti
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 17 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 16 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on trolley.com
332
subdomains included
Content
169
counted in the table below
Documentation
47
Product · Integration
24 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 110 | 2 | 2026-09-06 | ||
| Case study | 15 | 0 | 2025-06-20 | ||
| Comparison | 15 | 0 | 2026-04-30 | ||
| News or press | 14 | 0 | 2025-06-17 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 11 | 0 | 2026-06-30 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2026-05-05 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | 0 | 2026-04-01 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-06Recipient report 2026 blog
- 2026-07-09How to pay freelancers at scale and the hidden costs most platforms miss blog
- 2026-06-30Instant payouts to debit cards what platforms need to evaluate blog
- 2026-06-30Creator platforms what creators look for before choosing where to work blog
- 2026-06-30Freelance payment methods how platforms can choose the right approach blog
- 2026-06-30What is a w 9 form how it supports contractor onboarding compliance and reporting glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page trolley.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.
Follow Trolley
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.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Trolley is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Trolley is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Payouts Platform for the Internet Economy
- For
- businesses needing to pay creators, musicians, artists, freelancers, or on-demand workers
- Price stated
- 50% lower annual fees trolley.com
- Free plan or trial
- Start free trial trolley.com
- Certifications
- AICPA | SOC for Service Organizations
- Customers named
- Ted JacksonRoyalty ExchangeStacks.appMLCBugcrowdSoundropNitroPayNew Tomorrow Music Group
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, hosting
What Trolley's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: trolley.com, trust.trolley.com, trolley.com/platform. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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 Trolley'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 Trolley, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Trolley by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Trolley 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 Trolley, 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.