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Workforce planning · September 2026 Edition

Homebase vs Rippling

Zero of twelve models named Homebase first on the direct prompt; two named Rippling. Homebase was named by ten of the twelve models and Rippling by eleven and Homebase carries 11 labels and Rippling 26, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Homebase

accepted challenger

Named in eleven categories this edition.

Rippling

accepted challenger

Named in twenty-eight categories this edition.

First-choice share17%10%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%8%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#3A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels1126A 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.Workday Adaptive Planning was named alongside these two in eight of the twelve direct answers. ChartHop vs Homebase · ChartHop vs Rippling

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve 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 planning page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
HomebaseFirst choices, of twelve modelsRippling
Direct02
Paraphrase01
Comparative00
Budget-constrained92
Scale-constrained00
Negative012 against Rippling
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

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 12 modelsHomebase was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Grok 4.1 FastRippling alternatives: ChartHop, Paylocity, Planful, Workday Adaptive Planning
Kimi K2Rippling alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, HiBob, Paylocity, Pigment, Workday Adaptive Planning

Neither was the first choice, one was named

2 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 miniHiBob alternatives: Anaplan, Rippling, Workday Adaptive Planning
Gemini 3.5 FlashChartHop alternatives: Abacum, Mosaic, Pigment, Rippling, TeamOhana

Neither was named

8 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5ChartHop alternatives: Deel, HiBob, Paylocity, Pigment
Perplexity SonarWorkday Adaptive Planning alternatives: Abacum, HiBob, Paylocity, Visier
Mistral SmallWorkday Adaptive Planning alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, HiBob, Paylocity, Planful, Visier
DeepSeek V4 FlashPlanful, Workday Adaptive Planning alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, ChartHop, Paylocity, Pigment, Visier
Llama 4 MaverickWorkday Adaptive Planning alternatives: Abacum, HiBob, Paylocity, Planful, Visier
Qwen 3.7 FlashPlanful alternatives: Abacum, Orgvue, Paylocity, Visier, Workday Adaptive Planning
GLM 4.7 FlashXHiBob alternatives: Planful, Visier
MiniMax M2.5Dayforce, Visier alternatives: Workday

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
Homebase leads by four points.
Homebase22%#1 of 12
Rippling18%#2 of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Homebase leads by eight points.
Homebase17%#2 of 13
Rippling10%#3 of 13
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Homebase is not named for this buyer.
Homebasenot named
Rippling0%#– of 9
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.

“The best workforce planning software for a company with a limited budget is Homebase, which is free for up to 10 employees.” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Rippling

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.