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5 categories · Named, not ranked

Darwinbox

71Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

11 of 12Models named it

5Categories

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

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Darwinbox was named 7 times in Succession planning and 4 other categories, where Lattice led with 31%. 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-market40 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprise25 of 92

under the label threshold

In succession planning · 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 Darwinbox 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
Succession planning	Performance and talent management	0%	40 of 99	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 31%
Compensation management	Compensation and total rewards	0%	75 of 189	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%
HR AI assistants	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	48 of 119	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%
HR help desk and case management	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	66 of 93	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 26%
People analytics	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	61 of 99	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by HiBob at 15%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Darwinbox 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 Darwinbox 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	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	2
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct16 labelsNone

Paraphrase12 labels1

Comparative27 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained7 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative71 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Rippling/Darwinbox lead when you need one agent spanning HR, IT, and finance.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · HR AI assistants · comparative prompt · alternative

“Darwinbox (global enterprises)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Compensation management · scale 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 Darwinbox, over the 70 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Darwinbox was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SAP SuccessFactors38 of 709Not in the top three

Workday32 of 7013Not in the top three

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM26 of 702Not in the top three

Rippling19 of 703Not in the top three

UKG Pro19 of 703Not in the top three

Dayforce16 of 702Not in the top three

ChartHop12 of 701Not in the top three

Lattice12 of 700Not in the top three

Workday HCM11 of 705Not in the top three

PeopleFluent10 of 700Not 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 Darwinbox. 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 69 of the 70 answers that named Darwinbox and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

darwinbox.comYour site46

peoplemanagingpeople.com38

gartner.com22

guideflow.com21

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com20

forbes.com16

hibob.com13

selectsoftwarereviews.com13

bestrecruitingtools.com11

g2.com11

165 of the 211 domain citations in answers naming Darwinbox came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

darwinbox.com/blog/8-best-succession-planning-software-enterprises11

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tools/10-best-hris-tools-for-enterprises/1342861869

darwinbox.com/blog/best-applicant-tracking-systems-enterprise9

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-applicant-tracking-systems9

engagedly.com/blog/best-succession-planning-softwares8

firsthr.app/compare/performance/succession-planning-software8

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/applicant-tracking-systems8

darwinbox.com/blog/8-best-compensation-management-software-enterprises7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Darwinbox

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

PeopleStrong/Darwinbox 1

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

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