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AbsenceSoft

46Judge labels
3First choices
8Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
6% in Leave for enterprise buyers
Rank 20 of 89 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 14 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 AbsenceSoft 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
Leave and absence managementCore HR and payroll0%20 of 8914%14accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for AbsenceSoft 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 AbsenceSoft 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 mini11002
Gemini 3.5 Flash01102
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.1 Fast00101
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash00011
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00112
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00101
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
Direct8 labels1
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative11 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained5 labelsNone
Scale-constrained9 labels2
Negative11 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative46 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 7 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.

“start with Sparrow or AbsenceSoft” GPT-5.4 mini · Leave · comparative prompt · first choice
“Dedicated leave management systems (e.g., AbsenceSoft, Leapsome, Rippling, Workday HCM, ADP Workforce Now) that offer robust compliance tools” Mistral Small · Leave · negative prompt · alternative
“look into specialized leave management systems (like AbsenceSoft, Cocoon, or Tilt) rather than relying strictly on legacy carrier systems” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · negative prompt · alternative
“Complex US compliance (FMLA/ADA)? You likely need AbsenceSoft, not a generic tool.” Kimi K2 · Leave · comparative 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.

“Users report challenges with HR system integrations... Missing features... steep learning curve” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Leave · negative prompt · soft negative
“Verdict: Check Integrations Carefully.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Leave · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as AbsenceSoft, over the 46 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AbsenceSoft was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Workday31 of 4610Not in the top three
BambooHR30 of 461Not in the top three
Rippling28 of 461Not in the top three
Vacation Tracker16 of 466Not in the top three
UKG Pro16 of 462Not in the top three
Timetastic13 of 463Not in the top three
LeaveBoard12 of 462Not in the top three
Dayforce11 of 463Not in the top three
Cocoon11 of 460Not in the top three
SAP SuccessFactors10 of 463Not 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 AbsenceSoft. 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 37 of the 46 answers that named AbsenceSoft and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

employsome.com24
forbes.com19
peoplemanagingpeople.com19
articsledge.com16
guideflow.com15
leapsome.com15
technologyadvice.com13
actiplans.com12
absencesoft.comYour site11
g2.com11

144 of the 155 domain citations in answers naming AbsenceSoft came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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