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Index › Vendors › Absence.io · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Absence.io

5Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Absence.io was named 5 times in Leave, where BambooHR led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market28 of 89

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In leave · 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 Absence.io 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
Leave and absence management	Core HR and payroll	0%	28 of 89	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28%

Movement

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“European-only team? Absence.io or Calamari are strong, compliant choices.” Kimi K2 · Leave · comparative prompt · alternative

“Absence.io is also worth considering for its simplicity and HR-focused features.” Mistral Small · Leave · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Specifically designed for mid-sized and large companies with global workforces” MiniMax M2.5 · Leave · direct 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 Absence.io, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Absence.io was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BambooHR4 of 50Not in the top three

Connecteam3 of 51Not in the top three

HiBob3 of 50Not in the top three

Rippling3 of 50Not in the top three

Vacation Tracker2 of 52Not in the top three

Homebase2 of 51Not in the top three

Timetastic2 of 51Not in the top three

AbsenceSoft2 of 50Not in the top three

Calamari2 of 50Not in the top three

Day Off2 of 50Not 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 Absence.io. 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 5 of the 5 answers that named Absence.io and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

employsome.com4

peoplemanagingpeople.com4

forbes.com3

softwareadvice.com3

worldmetrics.org3

gitnux.org2

leapsome.com2

tinyteam.io2

vacationtracker.io2

apps365.com1

Twenty-six of the twenty-six domain citations in answers naming Absence.io came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

employsome.com/best/leave-management-software4

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-leave-management-software4

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-leave-management-systems3

softwareadvice.com/hr/absence-management-comparison3

leapsome.com/blog/absence-management-software2

tinyteam.io/blog/best-leave-management-software2

vacationtracker.io/blog/best-absence-management-tools2

worldmetrics.org/best/leave-management-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Absence.io

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Absence.io; a claim can dispute any of them.

absence.io 1

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Absence.io's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Absence.io, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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 absence.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.