26 categories · RankedWorkday
825Judge labels
99First choices
323Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
26Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.3, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
49% in Employee onboarding for enterprise buyers
Rank 186 of 186 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 70% of its 23 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Workday →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business140 of 143
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market186 of 186
0%23 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise4 of 142
8%27 labels
accepted challenger
In compensation management · 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 Workday 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 186 of 186 | 70% | 23 | criticized challenger |
| Performance management | Performance and talent management | 0% | 59 of 60 | 48% | 23 | criticized challenger |
| Succession planning | Performance and talent management | 0% | 84 of 99 | 40% | 20 | criticized challenger |
| Employee onboarding | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 19 of 104 | 26% | 19 | criticized challenger |
| HR AI assistants | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 119 of 119 | 56% | 16 | criticized challenger |
| Leave and absence management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 73 of 89 | 40% | 15 | criticized challenger |
| Payroll software | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 16 of 42 | 17% | 12 | accepted challenger |
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 19 of 93 | 25% | 12 | criticized challenger |
| Internal talent marketplace | Performance and talent management | 0% | 125 of 128 | 55% | 11 | criticized challenger |
| AI recruiting assistants | Talent acquisition | 0% | 84 of 84 | 100% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by GoPerfect at 19% |
| HR compliance and policy management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 83 of 84 | 43% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 16% |
| Org charts and org design | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 75 of 79 | 57% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 27% |
| Talent intelligence | Performance and talent management | 0% | 76 of 77 | 100% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Pin at 17% |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 84 of 87 | 57% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31% |
| HR help desk and case management | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 91 of 92 | 50% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 26% |
| People analytics | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 88 of 99 | 50% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by HiBob at 15% |
| 360 feedback | Performance and talent management | 0% | 72 of 77 | 50% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 40% |
| Time and attendance | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 45 of 86 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by UKG Ready at 15% |
| Flexible benefits and lifestyle spending accounts | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 75 of 76 | 67% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Compt at 30% |
| Workforce scheduling | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 56 of 93 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26% |
| Candidate assessment | Talent acquisition | 0% | 94 of 100 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by TestGorilla at 68% |
| Contingent workforce management | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 89 of 97 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by SimpleVMS at 35% |
| Frontline employee apps | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 47 of 96 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56% |
| Global payroll and employer of record | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 54 of 66 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Deel at 22% |
| Recognition and rewards | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 51 of 55 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Bonusly at 22% |
| Skills intelligence | Performance and talent management | 0% | 131 of 161 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19% |
Movement
This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Workday 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 Workday 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 Workday 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 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 29 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 10 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 26 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 11 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 33 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 26 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 23 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 22 |
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
Direct123 labels44
Paraphrase108 labels26
Comparative180 labels22not counted in share
Budget-constrained112 labels21
Scale-constrained94 labels8
Negative208 labels9not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative825 labels in all, every segment counted; 99 of the 130 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.
“Prioritize: Integrated HCM platforms (e.g., Workday, UKG, Oracle, Dayforce—Gartner leaders/challengers)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Succession planning · negative prompt · first choice
“For Enterprise Organizations: Workday or SAP SuccessFactors provide the depth, security, and reporting needed for large-scale operations.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Employee onboarding · comparative prompt · alternative
“Workday is best for large enterprises that need advanced HR operations, workforce planning, and global onboarding support.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Employee onboarding · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose Workday/SAP if you are a Fortune 500 company where data privacy and audit trails are your #1 priority.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Performance management · 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.
“Workday's AI tools are the subject of the notable class action lawsuit Mobley v. Workday, where the plaintiff claims the company's AI tools automatically rejected him and other applicants” Claude Haiku 4.5 · HR AI assistants · negative prompt · hard negative
“defendant in the landmark *Mobley v. Workday* lawsuit, which alleges that its AI screening systems systematically excluded qualified Black, older, and disabled applicants” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI recruiting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative
“(Avoid enterprise monsters like Workday Performance unless you are already fully committed to the broader Workday ecosystem, as they are often too rigid and expensive” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Performance management · scale prompt · hard negative
“basic HR suites (like older versions of Workday, Oracle HCM, or generic Applicant Tracking Systems) designed only for direct employees ... Inadequate for Governance” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Contingent workforce man · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday, over the 815 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday, over the 815 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday 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 Workday. 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 665 of the 815 answers that named Workday and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com270
gartner.com215
g2.com185
guideflow.com185
forbes.com146
worldmetrics.org143
learn.g2.com136
firsthr.app115
selectsoftwarereviews.com108
rippling.com100
1,603 of the 1,603 domain citations in answers naming Workday came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Workday
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday; a claim can dispute any of them.
Workday HCM 7Workday Performance 2Workday (AI Screening Modules) 1Workday (HiredScore) 1Workday (Workforce Management/HCM) 1Workday Performance & Talent Management 1Workday Performance Layer 1Workday Talent Management 1Workday, Inc. 1
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- where Workday 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;
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