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Keka

29Judge labels
2First choices
9Negative labels
10 of 12Models named it
5Categories
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 Leave for mid-market buyers
Rank 13 of 89 in the mid-market standing
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 3 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In leave · 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 Keka 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
Leave and absence managementCore HR and payroll2%13 of 890%3under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28%
Workforce planningWorkforce planning and analytics0%22 of 890%5under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31%
Compensation managementCompensation and total rewards0%105 of 1890%1under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%
Performance managementPerformance and talent management0%56 of 60100%1under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 41%
Time and attendanceCore HR and payroll0%72 of 90100%1under 10 labels · led by UKG Ready at 15%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Keka 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 Keka 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 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar02103
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small11002
DeepSeek V4 Flash00011
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201001
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
Direct7 labels2
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative6 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative9 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“A modern HR and payroll solution... It's well-suited for mid-market companies looking for an all-in-one HR suite.” Mistral Small · Leave · direct prompt · first choice
“Deel HR and Keka offer scalable options for slightly larger or more complex needs” Mistral Small · Workforce planning · budget prompt · alternative
“Keka is a good mid-market fit if you want automation without unnecessary complexity” Perplexity Sonar · Leave · direct prompt · alternative
“Best for SMBs with affordable workforce-planning features: Keka” Perplexity Sonar · Workforce planning · 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.

“Verdict: Avoid if you need a robust tool; it's fine for basic HR in small Indian companies.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Performance management · negative prompt · hard negative
“Support that can't keep up when payroll is on the line, unreliable clock-ins, mobile gaps.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Time and attendance · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Keka, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Keka was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
BambooHR11 of 290Not in the top three
Rippling9 of 293Not in the top three
Homebase7 of 296Not in the top three
Workday7 of 291Not in the top three
Thrivea6 of 291Not in the top three
HiBob5 of 292Not in the top three
greytHR5 of 290Not in the top three
Connecteam4 of 293Not in the top three
SAP SuccessFactors4 of 291Not in the top three
ChartHop4 of 290Not 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 Keka. 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 28 of the 29 answers that named Keka and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.g2.com18
g2.com15
peoplemanagingpeople.com10
selectsoftwarereviews.com10
thrivea.com10
guideflow.com9
forbes.com8
worldmetrics.org8
gartner.com7
capterra.com6

101 of the 101 domain citations in answers naming Keka came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 keka.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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