accepted challengerNamed in eighteen categories this edition.
accepted challengerNamed in twenty-nine categories this edition.
First-choice share6%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate3%20%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#6A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels2910A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Homebase reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Deputy was named alongside these two in thirteen of the fourteen direct answers. Deputy vs Homebase · Deputy vs Rippling · Sling vs Homebase 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 workforce scheduling page.
By framing
How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
HomebaseFirst choices, of fourteen modelsRippling
Direct021 against Homebase
Paraphrase00
Comparative20
Budget-constrained30
Scale-constrained00
Negative102 against Rippling
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.
The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Homebase and Rippling stood in it.
Rippling first, Homebase not the choice
2 of 14 modelsHomebase was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Claude Haiku 4.5Rippling alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, Dayforce, Deputy, Paychex Flex, UKG Pro, When I Work, Workforce.com
Qwen 3.7 FlashRippling alternatives: Deputy, Workforce.com
Neither was the first choice, one was named
4 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.GPT-5.4 miniDeputy alternatives: Connecteam, Homebase, Rippling
Mistral SmallDayforce, Deputy, Legion WFM, UKG Pro Workforce Management alternatives: Connecteam, Homebase, When I Work
DeepSeek V4 FlashDeputy alternatives: Rippling, When I Work, Workforce.com
Kimi K2Deputy, When I Work alternatives: Homebase, ZoomShift
Neither was named
8 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Gemini 3.5 FlashFloat alternatives: Assembled, Connecteam, Deputy, Kantata, Runn
Perplexity SonarDeputy alternatives: Connecteam, TimeTrex, When I Work, Workforce.com
xAIGrok 4.1 FastDeputy alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, Connecteam, When I Work
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Z.AIGLM 4.7 FlashXDeputy alternatives: Connecteam, Planday, Workforce.com
MiniMax M2.5Deputy alternatives: Connecteam, Quinyx, TimeTrex, Workforce.com
GPT-6 LunaDeputy alternatives: UKG Pro Workforce Management, UKG Ready, Workday Resource Scheduling
Muse Glimmer 30BDeputy, Workforce.com alternatives: Shiftboard, When I Work
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.
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.