Four of fourteen models named Rippling first on the direct prompt; zero named UKG Pro. Rippling was named by twelve of the fourteen models and UKG Pro by eight and Rippling carries 26 labels and UKG Pro 10, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in twenty-nine categories this edition.
Named in eighteen categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the leave and absence management page.
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Rippling and UKG Pro were named in the same answer 184 times, of the 1329 answers naming Rippling and the 485 naming UKG Pro. In those answers UKG Pro took the first choice sixteen times and Rippling twenty.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | ||||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | ||||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | ||||||
| Perplexity Sonar | ||||||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | ||||||
| Mistral Small | ||||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | ||||||
| Llama 4 Maverick | ||||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | ||||||
| Kimi K2 | ||||||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | ||||||
| MiniMax M2.5 | ||||||
| GPT-6 Luna | ||||||
| Muse Glimmer 30B |
Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“If you want a single recommendation, Rippling is the best fit when your leave management needs must integrate tightly with broader workforce systems.” Perplexity Sonar · direct prompt · first choice
No label in this category carried a quote.
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.