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Index Vendors › Beeline · September 2026 Edition
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Beeline

121Judge labels
12First choices
46Negative 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
18% in Contingent workforce man for enterprise buyers
Rank 12 of 97 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 32% of its 40 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In contingent workforce man · 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 Beeline 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
Contingent workforce managementWorkforce planning and analytics2%12 of 9732%40criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Beeline 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 Beeline across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.511002
GPT-5.4 mini01203
Gemini 3.5 Flash01045
Perplexity Sonar00314
Grok 4.1 Fast10225
Mistral Small02114
DeepSeek V4 Flash02035
Llama 4 Maverick01203
Qwen 3.7 Flash00101
Kimi K201124
GLM 4.7 FlashX01102
MiniMax M2.501102

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
Direct30 labels3
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative32 labels5not counted in share
Budget-constrained26 labels7
Scale-constrained16 labels2
Negative17 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative121 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 18 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.

“I recommend evaluating Beeline Professional first, as it's explicitly marketed for mid-market affordability” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Contingent workforce man · budget prompt · first choice
“Prefer highly rated VMS/MSPs like SAP Fieldglass, Beeline, or Magnit” Grok 4.1 Fast · Contingent workforce man · negative prompt · first choice
“Best For: Organizations that want a VMS-first solution with deep supplier relationship management capabilities.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Contingent workforce man · comparative prompt · alternative
“If you need more advanced features and can negotiate based on spend, Beeline is also worth considering.” Mistral Small · Contingent workforce man · 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.

“Enterprise options like SAP Fieldglass or Beeline are not recommended for limited budgets” Grok 4.1 Fast · Contingent workforce man · budget prompt · hard negative
“Better for large global programs; higher cost structure prices out most mid-market buyers” Kimi K2 · Contingent workforce man · direct prompt · hard negative
“Avoid legacy enterprise VMS platforms like SAP Fieldglass, Beeline” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Contingent workforce man · budget prompt · hard negative
“What to Avoid ... Transaction-based fees ($25–$75/worker/month)” Kimi K2 · Contingent workforce man · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Beeline, over the 120 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Beeline was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
SAP Fieldglass115 of 12018Not in the top three
Magnit62 of 1209Not in the top three
Workday VNDLY50 of 1202Not in the top three
VectorVMS39 of 1200Not in the top three
SimpleVMS35 of 12019Not in the top three
Worksuite34 of 1204Not in the top three
SimplifyVMS34 of 1202Not in the top three
Coupa Contingent Workforce32 of 1200Not in the top three
Deel31 of 1205Not in the top three
TalentDesk.io28 of 1206Not 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 Beeline. 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 104 of the 120 answers that named Beeline and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hrtechsaas.com72
talentdesk.io69
worldmetrics.org49
bestrecruitingtools.com46
aihratlas.com41
peoplemanagingpeople.com39
g2.com36
gitnux.org33
conexisvmssoftware.com32
rfp.wiki29

446 of the 446 domain citations in answers naming Beeline came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Beeline

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Beeline; a claim can dispute any of them.
Beeline Professional 2Beeline Enterprise 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 Beeline'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 Beeline, 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 beeline.com 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.