Every category where a model named Abacum 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Workforce planning	Workforce planning and analytics	4%	8 of 89	0%	11	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Abacum 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 Abacum across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	2	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	3	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	1

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase6 labels2

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“Abacum — Best for scaling mid-market businesses that need HR and Finance to plan from a single source of truth with integrated financial modeling.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Workforce planning · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I'd suggest ChartHop if your Head of People/HR wants to drive the process, or Abacum if your CFO/Finance team wants to lead.” Kimi K2 · Workforce planning · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“mid-market teams may benefit from lighter tools like Abacum or Planful before investing in a dedicated workforce planning suite” Llama 4 Maverick · Workforce planning · scale prompt · alternative

“Top-ranked in some lists (e.g., ZipDo); excels in cost forecasting and scenarios for B2B FP&A teams.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Workforce planning · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Abacum, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Abacum was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Workday Adaptive Planning11 of 133Not in the top three

Planful8 of 131Not in the top three

ChartHop7 of 134Not in the top three

Anaplan6 of 130Not in the top three

Paylocity4 of 130Not in the top three

Rippling4 of 130Not in the top three

Visier4 of 130Not in the top three

HiBob2 of 130Not in the top three

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM2 of 130Not in the top three

Orgvue2 of 130Not 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 Abacum. 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 12 of the 13 answers that named Abacum and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hrtechsaas.com10

guideflow.com9

abacum.aiYour site7

learn.g2.com7

charthop.com6

peoplemanagingpeople.com6

worldmetrics.org5

lupahire.com4

checkthat.ai3

cubesoftware.com3

Fifty-three of the sixty domain citations in answers naming Abacum came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

hrtechsaas.com/blog/workforce-planning-software10

abacum.ai/blog/best-headcount-workforce-planning-software7

learn.g2.com/best-workforce-planning-software7

charthop.com/resource/best-headcount-planning-software6

guideflow.com/blog/workforce-planning-software6

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-workforce-planning-software6

guideflow.com/blog/headcount-planning-software5

lupahire.com/blog/best-workforce-planning-software-tools4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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