12 categories · RankedDayforce
297Judge labels
21First choices
34Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
12Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.3, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
12% in Workforce management sui for enterprise buyers
Rank 11 of 93 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 19 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Dayforce →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business48 of 69
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market11 of 93
2%19 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise2 of 77
12%36 labels
accepted challenger
In workforce management sui · 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 Dayforce 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 2% | 11 of 93 | 0% | 19 | accepted challenger |
| Succession planning | Performance and talent management | 2% | 12 of 99 | 11% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 31% |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 2% | 12 of 87 | 17% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31% |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 11 of 46 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 22% |
| HR compliance and policy management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 30 of 84 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 16% |
| Time and attendance | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 22 of 86 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by UKG Ready at 15% |
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 56 of 186 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18% |
| Benefits administration | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 40 of 54 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by PlanSource at 23% |
| Frontline employee apps | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 71 of 96 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56% |
| Payroll software | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 21 of 42 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 28% |
| Employee onboarding | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 89 of 104 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29% |
| Flexible benefits and lifestyle spending accounts | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 63 of 76 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Compt at 30% |
Movement
This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Dayforce 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 Dayforce across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Dayforce across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
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
Direct48 labels6
Paraphrase57 labels2
Comparative105 labels9not counted in share
Budget-constrained41 labels12
Scale-constrained12 labels1
Negative34 labels6not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative297 labels in all, every segment counted; 21 of the 36 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.
“Dayforce is unique because it operates on a single global database that combines HR, Payroll, and Workforce Management” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce management sui · comparative prompt · first choice
“UKG and Ceridian Dayforce lead in traditional WFM capabilities like scheduling and labor forecasting.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Workforce management sui · comparative prompt · first choice
“I'd suggest starting with Visier or Dayforce as they offer strong value-to-feature ratios” MiniMax M2.5 · Workforce planning · direct prompt · first choice
“Engagedly, Lattice, Dayforce, or SuccessionStack strike the best balance” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Succession planning · direct prompt · first choice
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.
“Avoid these if you want a modern, intuitive, self-guided experience for your new hires.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Employee onboarding · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid for Benefits Administration Only” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Benefits administration · negative prompt · hard negative
“Terrible customer service in reviews (e.g., unresponsive billing, holding data "hostage"); doesn't justify cost for some.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Workforce planning · negative prompt · soft negative
“more enterprise-grade; generally overkill and costlier for most mid-market B2B companies” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Succession planning · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Dayforce, over the 295 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Dayforce was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Dayforce, over the 295 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Dayforce 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 Dayforce. 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 260 of the 295 answers that named Dayforce and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com126
peoplemanagingpeople.com126
gartner.com89
worldmetrics.org84
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com63
g2.com63
forbes.com62
learn.g2.com62
rippling.com59
adp.com50
784 of the 784 domain citations in answers naming Dayforce came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Dayforce
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Dayforce; a claim can dispute any of them.
Dayforce (Ceridian) 13Ceridian Dayforce 11Dayforce (formerly Ceridian) 3Ceridian (Dayforce) 1Dayforce (by Ceridian) 1
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Dayforce by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Dayforce 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 Dayforce, 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.
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