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Alternatives to Dayforce, as AI models named them

In the September 2026 Edition, 173 of the 216 answers collected in the one category where Dayforce holds a standing named it neither as a first choice nor as an alternative. These are the products those answers put first, category by category and buyer by buyer. The output is the models' output.

Named instead, most often
First choices in the 173 answers that did not name Dayforce, every category and segment above added together; a product can be counted in several. Each category below keeps its own denominator.

Workforce management suites

Core HR and payroll. Six framings, twelve models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Dayforce is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessDayforce holds 1 label here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Seventy-two of the seventy-two answers did not name Dayforce; it was the first choice in zero. The first choices in those seventy-two answers, fifteen products in all, the eight most named:

Deputy16 of 72
When I Work16 of 72
Homebase14 of 72
Connecteam10 of 72
Gusto6 of 72
BambooHR3 of 72
Rippling3 of 72
7 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketDayforce is #10 of 16 here at 2% of first choices, 19 labels.

Sixty of the seventy-two answers did not name Dayforce; it was the first choice in five. The first choices in those sixty answers, twelve products in all, the eight most named:

Homebase7 of 60
UKG Ready5 of 60
Deputy4 of 60
Rippling4 of 60
Connecteam3 of 60
4 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseDayforce is #2 of 11 here at 12% of first choices, 36 labels.

Forty-one of the seventy-two answers did not name Dayforce; it was the first choice in twelve. The first choices in those forty-one answers, fifteen products in all, the eight most named:

7 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

How to read this

A category is asked six ways of each of twelve models on behalf of each buyer segment, so a segment is seventy-two answers. An answer belongs on this page when the judge labeled Dayforce neither its first choice nor an alternative in it; the products listed are the first choices those answers made, counted once per answer. An answer that named nothing first, or named Dayforce only in passing, is in the denominator and adds to no product. The counts are not the category standing, which is on the category page with its share and rank; they are the same record read from Dayforce's side.

Every answer and every label is in the free record. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of Dayforce was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.