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Leave and absence management · October 2026 Edition

UKG Pro vs ADP Workforce Now

Zero of fourteen models named UKG Pro first on the direct prompt; one named ADP Workforce Now. UKG Pro was named by eight of the fourteen models and ADP Workforce Now by nine and UKG Pro carries 10 labels and ADP Workforce Now 17, so the shares are not directly comparable.

UKG Pro

accepted challenger

Named in eighteen categories this edition.

ADP Workforce Now

criticized challenger

Named in nineteen categories this edition.

First-choice share2%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate10%29%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#7#8A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels1017A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, UKG Pro reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.BambooHR was named alongside these two in eleven of the fourteen direct answers. BambooHR vs UKG Pro · BambooHR vs ADP Workforce Now · LeaveBoard vs UKG Pro

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.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
UKG ProFirst choices, of fourteen modelsADP Workforce Now
Direct011 against UKG Pro
Paraphrase00
Comparative00
Budget-constrained00
Scale-constrained10
Negative005 against ADP Workforce Now
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, UKG Pro and ADP Workforce Now were named in the same answer 195 times, of the 485 answers naming UKG Pro and the 616 naming ADP Workforce Now. In those answers ADP Workforce Now took the first choice twenty-five times and UKG Pro thirty-three.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where UKG Pro and ADP Workforce Now stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
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
UKG Pro ADP Workforce Now first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, UKG Pro on the left and ADP Workforce Now on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where UKG Pro and ADP Workforce Now stood in it.

ADP Workforce Now first, UKG Pro not the choice

1 of 14 modelsUKG Pro was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Grok 4.1 FastADP Workforce Now, BambooHR alternatives: AbsenceSoft, HiBob, Vacation Tracker

Neither was the first choice, one was named

3 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Qwen 3.7 FlashBambooHR alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, Deel, Remote, Rippling, UKG Ready
Kimi K2HiBob alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, BambooHR, Leapsome, UKG Pro
GLM 4.7 FlashXBambooHR alternatives: Dayforce, Rippling, UKG Pro

Neither was named

10 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Rippling alternatives: BambooHR, HROne, Namely
GPT-5.4 miniRippling alternatives: AbsenceSoft, BambooHR, Namely
Gemini 3.5 FlashHiBob, Rippling alternatives: Calamari, Cocoon, Tilt, Vacation Tracker
Perplexity SonarRippling alternatives: BambooHR, Zoho People
Mistral SmallBambooHR, HiBob alternatives: LeaveBoard, Vacation Tracker
DeepSeek V4 FlashBambooHR alternatives: Deel, Rippling
Llama 4 MaverickVacation Tracker alternatives: Namely, TimeOff.Management
MiniMax M2.5BambooHR alternatives: Rippling, TimeOff.Management, e-days
GPT-6 LunaTilt alternatives: AbsenceSoft, Sparrow
Muse Glimmer 30BBambooHR, HiBob alternatives: Rippling, Vacation Tracker, e-days

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.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Level: the same share of first choices.
UKG Pro0%#– of 14
ADP Workforce Now0%#– of 14
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Level: the same share of first choices.
UKG Pro2%#7 of 14
ADP Workforce Now2%#8 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
UKG Pro leads by six points.
UKG Pro10%#2 of 10
ADP Workforce Now4%#4 of 10
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about UKG Pro

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about ADP Workforce Now

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

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.