Every category where a model named Hubstaff 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
Time and attendance	Core HR and payroll	0%	27 of 90	25%	8	under 10 labels · led by UKG Ready at 15%
People analytics	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	95 of 99	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by HiBob at 15%
Workforce scheduling	Core HR and payroll	0%	92 of 94	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26%
Employee onboarding	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	83 of 104	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%
Workforce management suites	Core HR and payroll	0%	65 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 Hubstaff 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 Hubstaff across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	3	3
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	1	3
Kimi K2	0	0	2	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase13 labels1

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative33 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.

“unless you specifically need GPS, scheduling, or more monitoring, in which case Hubstaff is the better fit” GPT-5.4 mini · Time and attendance · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Hubstaff is a strong alternative because it is highlighted as good for time tracking and billing” Perplexity Sonar · Time and attendance · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Ideal if you need desktop activity monitoring and consistent workflow reviews.” MiniMax M2.5 · Time and attendance · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“The Best for Remote & Distributed Teams: Hubstaff” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Time and attendance · 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.

“Avoid Platforms Built on Invasive Employee Monitoring ("Bossware") ... (e.g., Hubstaff, Time Doctor, Apploye)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · People analytics · negative prompt · hard negative

“avoid tools like Hubstaff or Time Doctor if your B2B model relies on knowledge work” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Time and attendance · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“Class action investigations; invasive home monitoring; keystroke logging” Kimi K2 · People analytics · negative prompt · hard negative

“examined nine popular monitoring platforms (including *Hubstaff, Deputy, Apploye, and Time Doctor*) and found that they systematically shared worker data” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Time and attendance · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Hubstaff, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hubstaff was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Toggl Track13 of 334Not in the top three

Clockify11 of 332Not in the top three

Harvest7 of 333Not in the top three

QuickBooks Time7 of 331Not in the top three

Time Doctor7 of 330Not in the top three

Rippling6 of 334Not in the top three

Homebase6 of 332Not in the top three

Connecteam6 of 331Not in the top three

BambooHR4 of 331Not in the top three

Deputy4 of 331Not 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 Hubstaff. 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 24 of the 33 answers that named Hubstaff and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com11

learn.g2.com11

peoplemanagingpeople.com8

business.com7

hubstaff.comYour site7

myhours.com7

timetrex.com7

worldmetrics.org7

gartner.com6

joinhomebase.com6

Seventy of the seventy-seven domain citations in answers naming Hubstaff came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-time-attendance-software7

timetrex.com/blog/best-time-and-attendance-software-20247

business.com/categories/time-and-attendance-software6

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-time-tracking-software6

learn.g2.com/best-time-tracking-software6

techrepublic.com/article/best-time-and-attendance-software6

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-employee-time-tracking-apps5

gartner.com/reviews/market/time-and-attendance-software5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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