accepted challengerNamed in twenty-four categories this edition.
accepted challengerNamed in nineteen categories this edition.
First-choice share11%5%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate4%9%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#6A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels2611A count; the two differ.
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 employee onboarding page.
By framing
How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
HiBobFirst choices, of fourteen modelsConnecteam
Direct40
Paraphrase20
Comparative00
Budget-constrained03
Scale-constrained001 against HiBob
Negative001 against Connecteam
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 HiBob and Connecteam stood in it.
HiBob first, Connecteam not the choice
4 of 14 modelsConnecteam was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Gemini 3.5 FlashHiBob, Rippling alternatives: Deel, Enboarder, Tango, Trainual
DeepSeek V4 FlashHiBob, Rippling alternatives: BambooHR, Paylocity
Llama 4 MaverickBambooHR, HiBob, Trainual
Kimi K2HiBob, Rippling alternatives: Paycor
Neither was the first choice, one was named
7 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Claude Haiku 4.5BambooHR alternatives: HiBob, Rippling
GPT-5.4 miniRippling alternatives: BambooHR, Deel, HiBob
Perplexity SonarRippling alternatives: BambooHR, HiBob
xAIGrok 4.1 FastRippling alternatives: BambooHR, HiBob, Paycor
Mistral SmallPaycor alternatives: BambooHR, HiBob, Personio
Z.AIGLM 4.7 FlashXPersonio alternatives: BambooHR, Deel, HiBob, Paycor, Rippling
GPT-6 LunaRippling alternatives: BambooHR, HiBob
Neither was named
3 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Qwen 3.7 FlashBambooHR alternatives: Lumos, Paycor, Personio, Rippling
MiniMax M2.5BambooHR alternatives: Paylocity, Personio, Rippling
Muse Glimmer 30BBambooHR alternatives: Personio, Rippling
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.