HR AI Index
September 2026 Edition · The permanent record of this edition. The unqualified address always carries the latest edition.
Index Workforce planning and analytics Org charts › Enterprise September 2026 Edition

Org charts and org design for enterprise buyers

Asked as “org chart software”, and as “organizational design tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 45 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Contested
22% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Orgvue22%5%20accepted challenger
02OneDirectory16%4%26accepted challenger
03OrgChart11%8%36accepted challenger
04ChartHop9%10%39accepted challenger
05Ingentis org.manager7%0%21accepted challenger
06Nakisa4%0%15accepted challenger
07Organimi2%21%14accepted challenger
08Lucidchart2%57%42criticized challenger
09Microsoft Visio2%60%42criticized challenger
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
12Microsoft PowerPoint0%100%10criticized challenger
13Miro0%71%21criticized challenger
11SmartDraw0%57%14criticized challenger
10Pingboard0%35%31criticized challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative40%
Key
01Orgvue22%
02OneDirectory16%
03OrgChart11%
04ChartHop9%
05Ingentis org.manager7%
06Nakisa4%
07Organimi2%
08Lucidchart2%
09Microsoft Visio2%
10Pingboard0%
11SmartDraw0%
12Microsoft PowerPoint0%
13Miro0%

02What they warned about

Zero of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. 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 and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Microsoft Visio
60%
25 of 42 labels negative · 11 of 12 models · 13 hard negative
“Tools to **Avoid** (Unsuitable for scale): - **Microsoft Visio**: Primarily manual/diagramming-focused with shape limits” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
Lucidchart
57%
24 of 42 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 13 hard negative
“Generic diagramming tools such as Lucidchart, Visio, SmartDraw, Canva, or draw.io ... not for enterprise org management” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt
Miro
71%
15 of 21 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 8 hard negative
“General-Purpose Visual Whiteboards & Flowchart Tools (e.g., Lucidchart, Miro, Mural)... they fall short when treated as official, enterprise-wide org chart systems” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Microsoft PowerPoint
100%
10 of 10 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 9 hard negative
“Large enterprises should avoid—or be highly cautious of—four distinct categories of org chart tools... Microsoft Visio and PowerPoint ... are arguably the most inefficient tools” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

64 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 5 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 845 links across 168 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

43 answers · 76 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Gartner35 answers · 38 citations · 10 models
vendor site · OneDirectory33 answers · 41 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Org Chart Studio30 answers · 45 citations · 10 models
22 answers · 22 citations · 10 models
22 answers · 22 citations · 8 models
20 answers · 34 citations · 10 models
18 answers · 38 citations · 8 models
vendor site · People Managing People18 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Zapier17 answers · 17 citations · 9 models
16 answers · 30 citations · 8 models
vendor site · TeamOhana15 answers · 15 citations · 9 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best org chart software for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which organizational design tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade org chart tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best org chart software for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating an org chart software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which org chart tools should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Orgvue
Three alternativesOneDirectory, Organimi, Pingboard
no first choiceChangedno first choiceagainst: LatticeOneDirectory
Three alternativesChartHop, Org Chart Studio, OrgChart
no first choiceagainst: Excel, Google Slides, Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Word, Miro
GPT-5.4 miniLucidchart / Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Three alternativesIngentis org.manager, Microsoft Visio, OrgChart / OrgCharting-type HR org chart tools
OrgvueChanged
One alternativeOrgChart
Lucidchart
Three alternativesMicrosoft Visio, OrgChart, SAP SuccessFactors
against: Miro
Microsoft Visio
One alternativeOrgChart
against: Sift
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashNakisa Workforce Planning, Orgvue
Five alternativesAltify, ChartHop, DemandFarm, OneDirectory, Sift
against: Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio
OrgvueChanged
Two alternativesIngentis org.manager, Nakisa Workforce Planning
against: Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, Miro
Nakisa Workforce Planning, Orgvue
Five alternativesBeyond Intranet, ChartHop, Ingentis org.manager, OneDirectory, TeamOhana
TeamOrgChart
Three alternativesIngentis org.manager, Organimi, SmartDraw
against: ChartHop, Lucidchart, Pingboard, Sift
ChartHop
Two alternativesPingboard, Sift
against: The Org
against: BambooHR, Lattice, Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Miro, Mural, Organimi, Pingboard
Perplexity SonarNakisa
Four alternativesLucidchart / Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite, Microsoft Visio, Pingboard, Venngage
OrgvueChanged
One alternativeNakisa Org Design Suite
ChartHop, Ingentis org.manager, OrgChart
Seven alternativesLucidchart / Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite, Microsoft Visio, Miro, Nakisa, Orgvue, SmartDraw, Workday
against: Canva
OneDirectory
One alternativeOrgChart
against: ChartHop, Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, Miro
no first choiceagainst: BambooHR, Canva, Freshteam, Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, Pingboard, Sift, SmartDraw, draw.io
Grok 4.1 FastIngentis org.manager, OrgChart
Two alternativesChartHop, OneDirectory
against: Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, SmartDraw
OrgvueChanged
Four alternativesChartHop, Microsoft Visio, OneDirectory, Workday/SAP SuccessFactors
Nakisa, OrgChart
Three alternativesIngentis org.manager, OneDirectory, Pingboard
against: Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, SmartDraw
OneDirectory
Two alternativesOrgChart, Organimi
against: Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, Miro, Org Chart Studio, Pingboard, SmartDraw
OrgChart
Two alternativesChartHop, Pingboard
against: Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, Miro
against: BambooHR, Canva, Excel/Google Sheets, Google Slides, Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Miro, Organimi, Pingboard, Workday, draw.io
Mistral SmallIngentis org.manager, Lucid Visual Collaboration Suite
Three alternativesChartHop, Microsoft 365/SharePoint Org Chart Software, SmartDraw
ChartHop, OrgvueChanged
Two alternativesMega HOPEX, Power BI
Nakisa, OrgChart
Two alternativesLucid Visual Collaboration Suite, Sift
against: Pingboard, SmartDraw
Ingentis org.manageragainst: Lucidchart, Microsoft VisioChartHop
Four alternativesMicrosoft Viva Insights / Org Explorer, OrgChart, Pingboard, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Organization
against: Excel, Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Miro
DeepSeek V4 FlashOrgChart
Three alternativesChartHop, Ingentis org.manager, Orgvue
against: Creately, Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, Miro, SmartDraw
OrgvueChanged
Three alternativesChartHop, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday
Ingentis org.manager, OrgChart
Three alternativesChartHop, Nakisa, Orgvue
Creately, OneDirectory
One alternativeOrgPlease!
against: Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, OrgChart, Pingboard
no first choice
Six alternativesChartHop, Ingentis org.manager, Nakisa, OneDirectory, OrgChart, Orgvue
against: BambooHR, Lucidchart, SAP SuccessFactors, UKG Pro, Workday
against: Canva, Creately, Gliffy, Google Slides, Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Miro, Oracle HCM Cloud, OrgCharting, Organimi, Pingboard, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, draw.io
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceFunctionlyChanged
Three alternativesNakisa Org Design Suite, OrgBuilder by BCG X, Orgvue
no first choiceno first choiceOrgChart
Four alternativesCloudairy, HR Directory 365, OneDirectory, Pingboard
against: Microsoft Visio
Qwen 3.7 FlashGoProfiles
Three alternativesChartHop, OrgChart, Organimi
against: Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio
OrgChartProChanged
Two alternativesChartHop, Workday
against: Arithmetica, Excel, Microsoft Visio
Ingentis org.manager, OrgChart
Three alternativesChartHop, OneDirectory, Orgvue
Organimi
Three alternativesOneDirectory, OrgChart.io, OrgChartPlus
against: Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio
no first choiceagainst: Canva, Excel, Google Sheets, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Prezi
Kimi K2ChartHop
Two alternativesLucidchart, Microsoft Visio
OrgvueChanged
Two alternativesNakisa Org Design Suite, OneDirectory
ChartHop, OrgChart
Four alternativesLucidchart, Microsoft Visio, Organimi, Pingboard
OneDirectory
Two alternativesOrgChart, OrgPlease!
against: ChartHop, Lucidchart, Miro, OrgCanvas, Pingboard
no first choice
Four alternativesChartHop, Nakisa Workforce Planning, OneDirectory, OrgChart
against: Creately/SmartDraw/Gliffy, Excel, Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, Miro, OrgChart, Orgvue, Pingboard
GLM 4.7 FlashXNakisa, Orgvue
Seven alternativesChartHop, Happeo, Ingentis org.manager, Jostle, OneDirectory, OrgChart, Pingboard
against: Creately, Lucidchart, Miro, SmartDraw
Lucidchart, OrgPlusChanged
One alternativeMicrosoft Visio
against: Miro
OrgPlus
Three alternativesLucidchart, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday
against: Microsoft Visio
OneDirectory
One alternativeOrgChart
against: Lucidchart, Pingboard
no first choiceagainst: Asana, Excel/Google Sheets, Google Drawings, Jira, Lucidchart, Microsoft Visio, Monday.com, SmartDraw, Smartsheet, The Org
MiniMax M2.5OneDirectory
Three alternativesChartHop, Ingentis org.manager, OrgChart
Nakisa Org Design SuiteChanged
Four alternativesCreately, Microsoft Visio, MindManager, Miro
Nakisa, OrgChart
Two alternativesLucidchart, OneDirectory
Stracl
One alternativeThe Org
against: ChartHop, OneDirectory, OrgCanvas, OrgChart
OrgChart
Three alternativesChartHop, Lucidchart, Pingboard
against: Excel, Google Sheets, Lucidchart, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Visio, draw.io
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:56yes98 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:40yes36 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:03yes1251 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:51yes205 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:11yes2815 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:28yes67 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:54yes1518 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:29yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:04yes1032 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:10yes1426 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:41yes1049 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:50yes1741 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:59no05 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:52yes26 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:02yes1720 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:03yes207 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:36yes98 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:10no06 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:23yes1718 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:26yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:06no030 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:29yes819 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:51no038 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:22yes549 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:44yes910 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:40yes59 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:24yes1425 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:14yes1817 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:43yes1717 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:47yes910 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 17:55yes2725 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:29yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:29yes1961 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:47yes1854 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:25yes2560 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:25yes2036 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:05yes1510 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:36yes36 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 17:53yes1828 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:06yes207 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:55yes3723 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:16yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:11yes2243 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:27yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:53yes555 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:00yes2238 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:32yes2162 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:25yes1260 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:47yes1814 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:23no08 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:51no020 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:43yes2013 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 17:57yes2218 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:48no010 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:49yes1820 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:10yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:27no027 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:01yes1431 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:04yes2889 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:46yes516 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:19yes1411 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:28yes36 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:37yes1426 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:00yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:12yes3818 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:02yes129 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 20:06yes2487 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:34yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:38yes546 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:00yes2535 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:37yes1049 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 17:56yes1743 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
Ingentis read as Ingentis org.manager
PowerPoint read as Microsoft PowerPoint
Unresolved, counted raw
ARIS
Altify (by Upland)
Anaplan / Adaptive Planning
Arithmetica
Cortextual
Creately/SmartDraw/Gliffy
Gliffy
Mega HOPEX
Microsoft 365/SharePoint Org Chart Software
Microsoft Viva Insights / Org Explorer
OrgBuilder by BCG X
OrgChart / OrgCharting-type HR org chart tools
OrgChart.io
OrgChartPlus
OrgChartPro
OrgCharting
OrgWiki
SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Organization
Signavio
Software AG Alfabet
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect
Stracl
TeamOrgChart
Venngage
native modules in Workday/SAP SuccessFactors
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
← Contingent workforce manPeople analytics →