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Index Vendors › JOON · September 2026 Edition
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JOON

32Judge labels
14First choices
0Negative labels
11 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
17% in Flexible benefits for small business buyers
Rank 4 of 76 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 segmentStrongest at small business.
In flexible benefits · 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 JOON 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
Flexible benefits and lifestyle spending accountsCompensation and total rewards11%4 of 760%10accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for JOON 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 JOON 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 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash02002
Perplexity Sonar10001
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small10001
DeepSeek V4 Flash10001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K210001
GLM 4.7 FlashX10001
MiniMax M2.500101

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 labels2
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained18 labels11
Scale-constrained3 labels1
Negative1 label1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative32 labels in all, every segment counted; 14 of the 16 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.

“For a small team on a strict budget: JOON ($250/month flat) is the most straightforward and predictable option.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Flexible benefits · budget prompt · first choice
“Joon and Compt are top choices, with Joon being the most affordable starting at $250/month” Mistral Small · Flexible benefits · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd suggest starting with Joon (simplest, lowest entry cost) or Compt” Kimi K2 · Flexible benefits · budget prompt · first choice
“Top Pick: JOON ... JOON is the standout choice” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Flexible benefits · budget prompt · first choice

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 JOON, over the 32 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and JOON was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Compt30 of 3211Not in the top three
Forma22 of 321Not in the top three
Benepass21 of 320Not in the top three
Fringe12 of 320Not in the top three
Espresa7 of 320Not in the top three
ThrivePass5 of 320Not in the top three
Holisticly2 of 321Not in the top three
Motivosity2 of 320Not in the top three
PeopleKeep2 of 320Not in the top three
Benafica1 of 321Not 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 JOON. 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 32 answers that named JOON and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

compt.io23
guideflow.com23
getbenepass.com21
g2.com20
joinforma.com16
medium.com16
f6s.com13
myshortlister.com12
us.fitgap.com12
espresa.com8

164 of the 164 domain citations in answers naming JOON came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as JOON

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as JOON; a claim can dispute any of them.
Joon 4JOON (or Joon) 1
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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 JOON'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 JOON, 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 joon.io 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.