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Workforce scheduling · October 2026 Edition

Homebase vs Workforce.com

Zero of fourteen models named Homebase first on the direct prompt; one named Workforce.com. Homebase was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Workforce.com by ten and Homebase carries 29 labels and Workforce.com 15, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Homebase

accepted challenger

Named in eighteen categories this edition.

Workforce.com

accepted challenger

Named in five categories this edition.

First-choice share6%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate3%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#7A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels2915A 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 Workforce.com · 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 modelsWorkforce.com
Direct011 against Homebase
Paraphrase00
Comparative20
Budget-constrained30
Scale-constrained00
Negative10
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.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Homebase and Workforce.com 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
Homebase Workforce.com first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Homebase on the left and Workforce.com on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Homebase and Workforce.com stood in it.

Workforce.com first, Homebase not the choice

1 of 14 modelsHomebase was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Muse Glimmer 30BDeputy, Workforce.com alternatives: Shiftboard, When I Work

Neither was the first choice, one was named

9 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Rippling alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, Dayforce, Deputy, Paychex Flex, UKG Pro, When I Work, Workforce.com
GPT-5.4 miniDeputy alternatives: Connecteam, Homebase, Rippling
Perplexity SonarDeputy alternatives: Connecteam, TimeTrex, When I Work, Workforce.com
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
Qwen 3.7 FlashRippling alternatives: Deputy, Workforce.com
Kimi K2Deputy, When I Work alternatives: Homebase, ZoomShift
GLM 4.7 FlashXDeputy alternatives: Connecteam, Planday, Workforce.com
MiniMax M2.5Deputy alternatives: Connecteam, Quinyx, TimeTrex, Workforce.com

Neither was named

4 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Gemini 3.5 FlashFloat alternatives: Assembled, Connecteam, Deputy, Kantata, Runn
Grok 4.1 FastDeputy alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, Connecteam, When I Work
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
GPT-6 LunaDeputy alternatives: UKG Pro Workforce Management, UKG Ready, Workday Resource Scheduling

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
Workforce.com is not named for this buyer.
Homebase26%#1 of 9
Workforce.com—not named
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Homebase leads by four points.
Homebase6%#5 of 11
Workforce.com2%#7 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Homebase leads by two points.
Homebase4%#– of 11
Workforce.com2%#– of 11
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Homebase

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“Homebase – Too small and US-centric for mid-market B2B.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · direct prompt · hard negative

What the models said about Workforce.com

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“Deputy and Workforce.com are the two platforms most reviewers put at the top” Muse Glimmer 30B · direct prompt · first choice
Also compared
Deputy vs HomebaseDeputy vs Workforce.comSling vs HomebaseSling vs Workforce.comConnecteam vs HomebaseConnecteam vs Workforce.comWhen I Work vs HomebaseWhen I Work vs Workforce.comHomebase vs RipplingRippling vs Workforce.comAll twenty-one head-to-head pages and the full workforce scheduling standing

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.