Every category where a model named actiPLANS 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	2%	8 of 89	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for actiPLANS 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 actiPLANS 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	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	2	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labels2

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative23 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.

“For most budget-conscious small companies, actiPLANS or Connecteam tend to be the best balance of free/cheap pricing and genuinely useful features.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Leave · budget prompt · first choice

“Also mentioned as solid, budget-friendly options for smaller businesses” Mistral Small · Leave · budget prompt · alternative

“A free tier for tiny teams | actiPLANS” Perplexity Sonar · Leave · budget prompt · alternative

“actiPLANS (Solid Scalable Free Option)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Leave · budget 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 actiPLANS, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and actiPLANS was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

LeaveBoard21 of 236Not in the top three

Vacation Tracker18 of 234Not in the top three

Day Off18 of 231Not in the top three

Timetastic11 of 234Not in the top three

BambooHR11 of 231Not in the top three

Calamari8 of 230Not in the top three

Workday6 of 230Not in the top three

PlanMyLeave5 of 230Not in the top three

Rippling5 of 230Not in the top three

Connecteam4 of 231Not 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 actiPLANS. 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 23 of the 23 answers that named actiPLANS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com22

employsome.com18

actiplans.comYour site14

peoplemanagingpeople.com14

technologyadvice.com10

charliehr.com9

attendancebot.com8

vacationtracker.io8

connecteam.com7

tracefyhr.com7

103 of the 117 domain citations in answers naming actiPLANS came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-leave-management-systems22

employsome.com/best/leave-management-software18

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-leave-management-software14

actiplans.com/blog/free-leave-management-software10

technologyadvice.com/blog/human-resources/leave-management-tools10

charliehr.com/best-leave-management-systems9

attendancebot.com/blog/8-best-leave-management-software-for-small-businesses-in-20268

connecteam.com/leave-management-system7

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 actiplans.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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