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Employee monitoring · October 2026 Edition

ActivTrak vs Time Doctor

Nine of fourteen models named ActivTrak first on the direct prompt; one named Time Doctor. Both were named by all fourteen models and ActivTrak carries 51 labels and Time Doctor 31, so the shares are not directly comparable.

ActivTrak

endorsed leader

Named in three categories this edition.

Time Doctor

accepted challenger

Named in four categories this edition.

First-choice share33%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate6%23%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#7A position in a field of 7; printed, not drawn.
Labels5131A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, ActivTrak reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Teramind was named alongside these two in ten of the fourteen direct answers. ActivTrak vs Insightful · ActivTrak vs Apploye · ActivTrak vs Hubstaff

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 monitoring page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
ActivTrakFirst choices, of fourteen modelsTime Doctor
Direct91
Paraphrase60
Comparative20
Budget-constrained201 against ActivTrak · 1 against Time Doctor
Scale-constrained001 against Time Doctor
Negative102 against ActivTrak · 5 against Time Doctor
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, ActivTrak and Time Doctor were named in the same answer sixty-three times, of the 151 answers naming ActivTrak and the 91 naming Time Doctor. In those answers Time Doctor took the first choice three times and ActivTrak twenty.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where ActivTrak and Time Doctor stood in it.

Both were the first choice

1 of 14 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.
Muse Glimmer 30BActivTrak, Time Doctor alternatives: E-Monitor, Hubstaff, Insightful

ActivTrak first, Time Doctor an alternative

8 of 14 modelsTime Doctor was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniActivTrak alternatives: Hubstaff, Teramind
Gemini 3.5 FlashActivTrak alternatives: Insightful, Teramind, Time Doctor
Mistral SmallActivTrak alternatives: Insightful, Time Doctor
DeepSeek V4 FlashActivTrak alternatives: Hubstaff, Teramind, Time Doctor
Qwen 3.7 FlashActivTrak alternatives: Google Workplace Insights, HubSpot Insights, Hubstaff, Microsoft Viva Insights, Salesforce Activity Monitoring, Teramind
Kimi K2ActivTrak alternatives: Hubstaff, Teramind, Time Doctor
GLM 4.7 FlashXActivTrak alternatives: Controlio, Hubstaff, Insightful, Teramind
GPT-6 LunaActivTrak alternatives: Insightful, Teramind

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.
Claude Haiku 4.5eMonitor alternatives: ActivTrak, Hubstaff, Insightful, Teramind
Perplexity SonarInsightful alternatives: ActivTrak, Hubstaff, Teramind, Time Doctor
Grok 4.1 FastInsightful alternatives: ActivTrak, Teramind, Time Doctor, WebWork Time Tracker
MiniMax M2.5E-Monitor alternatives: ActivTrak, Insightful, Time Doctor

Neither was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice

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
ActivTrak leads by seven points.
ActivTrak15%#2 of 10
Time Doctor8%#4 of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
ActivTrak leads by thirty-one points.
ActivTrak33%#1 of 7
Time Doctor2%#7 of 7
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
ActivTrak leads by sixteen points.
ActivTrak16%#2 of 8
Time Doctor0%#8 of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about ActivTrak

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

“Screen monitoring, "bossware" classification in research” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · hard negative
“Some expensive tools (like ActivTrak) require a minimum purchase of 5 licenses (billed annually) even for the lowest tier.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · budget prompt · soft negative
“A commonly mentioned less intrusive alternative is ActivTrak, described as offering "real-time activity monitoring without keystroke logging..."” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · first choice
“Start with ActivTrak for the overall organization if you need to understand productivity trends, but avoid it for sales teams.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · direct prompt · first choice
“ActivTrak is the top recommendation due to its robust analytics, ease of use, and focus on actionable insights” Mistral Small · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about Time Doctor

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

“Screenshots, keystroke logging, video capture, website/app monitoring” Kimi K2 · negative prompt · hard negative
“ActivTrak and Time Doctor being the most cited for B2B growth companies” Muse Glimmer 30B · direct prompt · first choice
“Time Doctor is a close second, especially for companies needing integrated time tracking and payroll features” Mistral Small · direct prompt · alternative
“Time Doctor if your team needs detailed reports on productivity, goals, and project timelines” Perplexity Sonar · direct prompt · alternative
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.