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Index Vendors › 7shifts · September 2026 Edition
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7shifts

67Judge labels
0First choices
10Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Workforce scheduling for mid-market buyers
Rank 20 of 94 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 25% of its 12 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In workforce scheduling · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named 7shifts for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Workforce schedulingCore HR and payroll0%20 of 9425%12criticized challenger
Frontline employee appsOnboarding and employee experience0%20 of 970%6under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56%
Workforce management suitesCore HR and payroll0%17 of 950%4under 10 labels · led by ADP Workforce Now at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for 7shifts yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated 7shifts across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash02103
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00112
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash01124
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash03003
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX03104
MiniMax M2.500000

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase7 labelsNone
Comparative19 labelsNone
Budget-constrained18 labelsNone
Scale-constrained9 labelsNone
Negative11 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative67 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“If your business is hospitality-focused, 7shifts is specialized to handle the unique quirks of food service” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce scheduling · budget prompt · alternative
“best only if you're a restaurant... but its pricing is higher than the most budget-friendly options” GPT-5.4 mini · Workforce scheduling · budget prompt · alternative
“includes Findmyshift, Homebase, Sling, 7shifts, and Connecteam, all of which have free plans” Llama 4 Maverick · Workforce scheduling · budget prompt · alternative
“require agile, mobile-first, and highly intuitive scheduling tools (like Deputy or 7shifts)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce management sui · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“What to avoid... 7shifts \u2014 unless you're in hospitality/restaurants” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Workforce scheduling · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Employee Scheduling Tools (7shifts, HotSchedules, When I Work)... Why caution: These store highly sensitive HR data” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Workforce scheduling · negative prompt · soft negative
“7shifts for restaurants, but pricier at $40/location” Grok 4.1 Fast · Workforce scheduling · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as 7shifts, over the 67 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and 7shifts was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Homebase56 of 6720Not in the top three
When I Work47 of 676Not in the top three
Connecteam43 of 6712Not in the top three
Deputy39 of 678Not in the top three
Sling31 of 673Not in the top three
Blink10 of 670Not in the top three
Rippling8 of 671Not in the top three
Workday8 of 670Not in the top three
Staffbase7 of 670Not in the top three
UKG Pro7 of 670Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named 7shifts. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 55 of the 67 answers that named 7shifts and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

joinhomebase.com32
forbes.com23
peoplemanagingpeople.com23
connecteam.com22
zapier.com21
guideflow.com20
capterra.com17
learn.g2.com12
business.com11
mangoapps.com10

191 of the 191 domain citations in answers naming 7shifts came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at 7shifts.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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