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Index Vendors › HR Acuity · September 2026 Edition
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HR Acuity

35Judge labels
4First choices
2Negative labels
11 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
7% in HR help desk for mid-market buyers
Rank 4 of 93 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 10 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 HR Acuity 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 experience7%4 of 930%10accepted challenger
HR compliance and policy managementCore HR and payroll0%27 of 840%8under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 16%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for HR Acuity 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 HR Acuity across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash02103
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.1 Fast02002
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash11002
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201102
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.510102

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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase19 labels4
Comparative11 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative35 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 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.

“Best Overall for Mid-Market B2B: HR Acuity – Excellent for employee relations case management with defensible investigations and risk analytics.” MiniMax M2.5 · HR help desk · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“the consensus leader for mid-market to enterprise ER casework ... this is the top call” DeepSeek V4 Flash · HR help desk · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“### 1. HR Acuity (Best for case management focus)” Claude Haiku 4.5 · HR help desk · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Employee‑Relations & Investigations | HR Acuity | Specialized for consistent, defensible investigations” GLM 4.7 FlashX · HR help desk · 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 HR Acuity, over the 35 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HR Acuity was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
ServiceNow HR Service Delivery14 of 358Not in the top three
BambooHR14 of 354Not in the top three
Rippling11 of 352Not in the top three
Deel11 of 350Not in the top three
SixFifty11 of 350Not in the top three
Dovetail Software10 of 353Not in the top three
Zendesk7 of 353Not in the top three
Freshservice7 of 352Not in the top three
Workday7 of 352Not in the top three
Justworks7 of 350Not 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 HR Acuity. 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 30 of the 35 answers that named HR Acuity and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com28
peoplemanagingpeople.com25
g2.com21
hracuity.comYour site14
moveworks.com14
worldmetrics.org14
gitnux.org11
toolradar.com11
wifitalents.com10
allvoices.co9

143 of the 157 domain citations in answers naming HR Acuity came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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