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Pause

4Judge labels
0First choices
1Negative labels
3 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.3, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
3 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Pause was named 3 times in Leave, where BambooHR led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In leave · 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 Pause 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Leave and absence managementCore HR and payroll0%34 of 890%3under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Pause 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 Pause across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Winner: Pause ... Once you exceed 10 employees, evaluate Pause for simplicity” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Leave · budget prompt · alternative
“Startups often choose Pause because it is straightforward and affordable.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Leave · budget prompt · alternative
“look at LeaveBoard, Leave Dates, or Pause” GPT-5.4 mini · Leave · comparative 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 Pause, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Pause was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
LeaveBoard2 of 41Not among the top eight
Leave Dates2 of 40Not among the top eight
AbsenceSoft1 of 41Not among the top eight
Sparrow1 of 41Not among the top eight
Timetastic1 of 41Not among the top eight
Activ People HR1 of 40Not among the top eight
BambooHR1 of 40Not among the top eight
Connecteam1 of 40Not among the top eight
HROne1 of 40Not among the top eight
Keka1 of 40Not 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 Pause. 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 4 of the 4 answers that named Pause and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

capterra.com3
attendancebot.com2
employsome.com2
learn.g2.com2
actiplans.com1
anywherer.com1
apps365.com1
breezeleave.com1
fitsmallbusiness.com1
g2.com1

Fifteen of the fifteen domain citations in answers naming Pause came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Follow Pause

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.

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 Pause'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 Pause, 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 Pause by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Pause 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 Pause, 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 getpause.com 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.