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Index › Vendors › Float · September 2026 Edition

3 categories · Named, not ranked

Float

19Judge labels

2First choices

1Negative labels

6 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.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Float was named 5 times in Workforce scheduling and 2 other categories, where Deputy led with 26%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business16 of 85

under the label threshold

Mid-market13 of 94

under the label threshold

Enterprise66 of 117

under the label threshold

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 Float 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
Workforce scheduling	Core HR and payroll	2%	13 of 94	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26%
Leave and absence management	Core HR and payroll	0%	47 of 89	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28%
Workforce management suites	Core HR and payroll	0%	36 of 95	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by ADP Workforce Now at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Float 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 Float 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	2	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0

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

Direct7 labels1

Paraphrase6 labels1

Comparative4 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 5 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.

“would be Shiftboard or Float, as they are highly rated and suitable for mid-sized teams” Llama 4 Maverick · Workforce scheduling · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“just need a lightweight, highly accurate "people planner" to stop overbooking your team” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce management sui · direct prompt · alternative

“Choose Float for a highly visual, drag-and-drop experience.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce scheduling · direct prompt · alternative

“Float — *Best for Resource Planning*” Kimi K2 · Leave · paraphrase 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 Float, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Float was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Runn9 of 191Not in the top three

Rippling8 of 191Not in the top three

Homebase7 of 190Not in the top three

When I Work6 of 190Not in the top three

Connecteam5 of 193Not in the top three

BambooHR5 of 192Not in the top three

ChartHop5 of 191Not in the top three

Deputy5 of 191Not in the top three

Resource Guru5 of 190Not in the top three

Workday4 of 190Not 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 Float. 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 9 of the 19 answers that named Float and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com6

peoplemanagingpeople.com5

worldmetrics.org5

joinhomebase.com4

thrivea.com4

cubesoftware.com3

dialzara.com3

learn.g2.com3

productive.io3

thedigitalprojectmanager.com3

Thirty-nine of the thirty-nine domain citations in answers naming Float came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

thrivea.com/blog/best-workforce-planning-tools-for-small-businesses4

cubesoftware.com/blog/workforce-planning-software3

dialzara.com/blog/best-workforce-planning-software-for-smbs3

joinhomebase.com/blog/workforce-planning-tools3

learn.g2.com/best-workforce-planning-software3

eresourcescheduler.com/blog/top-10-workforce-planning-tools2

guideflow.com/blog/workforce-planning-software2

guideflow.com/blog/workforce-scheduling-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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