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Jira Service Management

34Judge labels
4First choices
5Negative labels
9 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 mid-market buyers
Rank 9 of 93 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 19% of its 16 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 Jira Service Management 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 experience2%9 of 9319%16accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Jira Service Management 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 Jira Service Management 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 Flash12014
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast01203
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01102
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01113
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01113
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct8 labelsNone
Paraphrase4 labels1
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained11 labels3
Scale-constrained7 labelsNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative34 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.

“want a polished, highly customizable ticketing experience for free, go with Jira Service Management” Gemini 3.5 Flash · HR help desk · budget prompt · first choice
“If you're already an Atlassian shop: Jira Service Management gives clean workflows and handoffs at a low cost.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · HR help desk · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Consider Jira SM if you have fewer than 10 HR staff and want to integrate with existing dev/IT tools.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · HR help desk · budget prompt · alternative
“Jira Service Management free for up to three agents are also budget-friendly options” Perplexity Sonar · 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.

“The Culprit: Using standard IT ticketing platforms (like basic configurations of Jira Service Management, ServiceNow ITSM, or legacy IT help desks) to handle human resources.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · HR help desk · negative prompt · hard negative
“Many organizations try to use their IT ticketing system (like Zendesk or Jira Service Management) to handle HR tickets. Why to avoid” Qwen 3.7 Flash · HR help desk · negative prompt · hard negative
“Generic IT ticketing systems (e.g., Jira Service Management, Zendesk, Freshservice) Why to avoid or use with caution:” GLM 4.7 FlashX · HR help desk · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Jira Service Management, over the 34 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Jira Service Management was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Zendesk23 of 343Not in the top three
Freshservice20 of 343Not in the top three
ServiceNow HR Service Delivery11 of 346Not in the top three
Zoho Desk11 of 345Not in the top three
ServiceNow11 of 343Not in the top three
Freshdesk9 of 341Not in the top three
Workday Help8 of 341Not in the top three
Hiver7 of 341Not in the top three
BambooHR5 of 341Not in the top three
Spiceworks5 of 341Not 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 Jira Service Management. 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 23 of the 34 answers that named Jira Service Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

featurebase.app17
peoplemanagingpeople.com15
zendesk.com14
gitnux.org12
eesel.ai11
worldmetrics.org11
g2.com9
lupahire.com9
monday.com9
siit.io9

116 of the 116 domain citations in answers naming Jira Service Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Jira Service Management

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Jira Service Management; a claim can dispute any of them.
Jira Service Management (JSM) 2Jira Service Management (JSM) for HR 1Zendesk / Jira Service Management 1
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