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3 categories · Named, not ranked

HR Cloud

15Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

8 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. HR Cloud was named 3 times in Employee onboarding and 2 other categories, where BambooHR led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business27 of 77

under the label threshold

Mid-market82 of 104

under the label threshold

Enterprise17 of 87

under the label threshold

In employee onboarding · 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 Cloud 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
Employee onboarding	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	82 of 104	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%
HR help desk and case management	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	69 of 93	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 26%
HRIS and HCM platforms	Core HR and payroll	0%	31 of 46	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 22%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Integration issues with external data feeds” Kimi K2 · Employee onboarding · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as HR Cloud, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HR Cloud was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BambooHR8 of 152Not in the top three

Workday6 of 152Not in the top three

Rippling6 of 151Not in the top three

UKG Pro5 of 150Not in the top three

Gusto4 of 151Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors4 of 150Not in the top three

Deel3 of 150Not in the top three

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM3 of 150Not in the top three

Workday HCM2 of 151Not in the top three

ADP2 of 150Not 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 Cloud. 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 15 of the 15 answers that named HR Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hrcloud.comYour site11

forbes.com6

gartner.com5

paycor.com5

peoplemanagingpeople.com5

outsail.co3

resources.rework.com3

waybook.com3

bamboohr.com2

bestrecruitingtools.com2

Thirty-four of the forty-five domain citations in answers naming HR Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

hrcloud.com/blog/best-employee-onboarding-software6

gartner.com/reviews/market/onboarding-software4

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-onboarding-software3

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/hris-systems3

hrcloud.com/employee-onboarding-software3

paycor.com/resource-center/articles/best-enterprise-onboarding-software3

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-enterprise-onboarding-software3

waybook.com/blog/best-employee-onboarding-software3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as HR Cloud

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as HR Cloud; a claim can dispute any of them.

HR Cloud / Onboard by HR Cloud 1

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 HR Cloud'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 HR Cloud, 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 hrcloud.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.