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Acuity Scheduling

42Judge labels
0First choices
17Negative labels
11 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 16 of 94 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 10% of its 10 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 Acuity Scheduling 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%16 of 9410%10accepted challenger
Interview schedulingTalent acquisition0%72 of 7250%6under 10 labels · led by Calendly at 21%
Coaching platformsLearning and development0%42 of 1160%1under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Acuity Scheduling 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 Acuity Scheduling 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 Flash01023
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast02013
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash02002
Kimi K201012
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Comparative23 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative16 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative42 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.

“Ideal for service businesses, offering features like payments, intake forms, packages, and multi-location support” Mistral Small · Workforce scheduling · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose Acuity if you sell coaching packages, need deposits, or require medical forms.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce scheduling · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose Acuity if you run a service business and need payments, forms, and packages” Kimi K2 · Workforce scheduling · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for: Service-based businesses (coaches, salons, therapists, fitness trainers).” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce scheduling · 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 significant operational friction: Poor Squarespace integration... No bulk cancellation capability” Kimi K2 · Interview scheduling · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid pure generalists (e.g., Acuity) for recruiting; they lack panel/ATS depth.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Interview scheduling · direct prompt · hard negative
“its interface is widely considered too complex, cluttered, and difficult to set up compared to cleaner, modern alternatives” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce scheduling · negative prompt · soft negative
“Basic or free tiers of Calendly, Acuity, or YouCanBook.me... they quickly fall apart” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Interview scheduling · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Acuity Scheduling, over the 42 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Acuity Scheduling was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Calendly38 of 4212Not in the top three
Cal.com17 of 420Not in the top three
Doodle15 of 420Not in the top three
Setmore12 of 420Not in the top three
YouCanBookMe12 of 420Not in the top three
Square Appointments10 of 422Not in the top three
GoodTime9 of 422Not in the top three
Google Calendar9 of 420Not in the top three
Shiftboard6 of 422Not in the top three
Lever6 of 421Not 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 Acuity Scheduling. 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 36 of the 42 answers that named Acuity Scheduling and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cal.com21
capterra.com18
calendly.com15
learn.g2.com12
youcanbook.me12
gitnux.org11
candidate.fyi9
g2.com9
koalendar.com9
lunacal.ai9

125 of the 125 domain citations in answers naming Acuity Scheduling came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Acuity Scheduling

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Acuity Scheduling; a claim can dispute any of them.
Acuity 3Acuity Scheduling (Squarespace) 1Acuity Scheduling (by Squarespace) 1
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