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Index Vendors › HelpDesk.com · September 2026 Edition
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HelpDesk.com

21Judge labels
1First choices
1Negative labels
10 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
2% in HR help desk for small business buyers
Rank 32 of 93 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 25% of its 4 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In hr help desk · 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 HelpDesk.com 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
HR help desk and case managementOnboarding and employee experience0%32 of 9325%4under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for HelpDesk.com 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 HelpDesk.com across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00011
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct10 labels1
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained8 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 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.

“HelpDesk.com | $29/agent/month | Simple solutions for small businesses” Kimi K2 · HR help desk · budget prompt · alternative
“HelpDesk.com - $29/agent/month - Simple solution for small businesses” MiniMax M2.5 · HR help desk · budget prompt · alternative
“Want a simple, affordable paid tool: ProProfs or HelpDesk.com” GLM 4.7 FlashX · HR help desk · 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.

“simple option for small businesses, but typically pricier than Zoho Desk” Perplexity Sonar · HR help desk · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as HelpDesk.com, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HelpDesk.com was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Zoho Desk15 of 2110Not in the top three
Hiver13 of 215Not in the top three
Freshdesk9 of 211Not in the top three
Zendesk8 of 210Not in the top three
Help Scout5 of 212Not in the top three
Zoho People5 of 212Not in the top three
Spiceworks4 of 211Not in the top three
Freshservice4 of 210Not in the top three
Jira Service Management3 of 210Not in the top three
LiveAgent3 of 210Not 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 HelpDesk.com. 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 21 of the 21 answers that named HelpDesk.com and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

zendesk.com20
featurebase.app19
eesel.ai18
peoplemanagingpeople.com17
atlassian.com8
capterra.com8
lupahire.com8
monday.com8
suptask.com7
worldmetrics.org7

120 of the 120 domain citations in answers naming HelpDesk.com came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 HelpDesk.com'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 HelpDesk.com, 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 helpdesk.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.

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