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Index › Vendors › Google Gemini · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Google Gemini

3Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

3 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.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Google Gemini was named 2 times in HR AI assistants, where Workativ Assistant led with 12%. 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-market35 of 119

under the label threshold

Enterprise44 of 108

under the label threshold

In hr ai assistants · 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 Google Gemini 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
HR AI assistants	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	35 of 119	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Google Gemini 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 Google Gemini across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 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.

“Google Gemini offers a free tier with any Google account and a Pro tier at $20/month, best for teams already in Google Workspace” Claude Haiku 4.5 · HR AI assistants · budget prompt · alternative

“or similar general-purpose AI like Claude or Google Gemini” Grok 4.1 Fast · HR AI assistants · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Gemini, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Gemini was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Gusto2 of 31Not in the top three

Leena AI2 of 30Not in the top three

ChatGPT1 of 31Not in the top three

IBM watsonx Orchestrate1 of 31Not in the top three

PeopleHR1 of 31Not in the top three

Bonusly1 of 30Not in the top three

Claude1 of 30Not in the top three

Effy AI1 of 30Not in the top three

Factorial1 of 30Not in the top three

Microsoft 365 Copilot1 of 30Not 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 Google Gemini. 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 3 of the 3 answers that named Google Gemini and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

althire.ai2

firsthr.app2

gusto.com2

moveworks.com2

peoplebox.ai2

workativ.com2

adoption.microsoft.com1

agentmarketplace.ai1

aihr.com1

aihratlas.com1

Sixteen of the sixteen domain citations in answers naming Google Gemini came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

althire.ai/feeds/blog/best-ai-tools-hr2

firsthr.app/compare/core-hr/hr-ai-tools2

moveworks.com/us/en/resources/blog/best-ai-assistants-for-hr-efficiency2

peoplebox.ai/blog/ai-tools-hr-teams2

adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/scenario-library/human-resources1

adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/scenario-library/human-resources/streamline-benefits-and-comp1

agentmarketplace.ai/blog/ai-agents-for-hr-pricing1

aihr.com/blog/hr-ai-tools1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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

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