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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Kronos

13Judge labels

0First choices

9Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Kronos was named 4 times in Time and attendance and 1 other category, where UKG Ready led with 15%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market88 of 90

under the label threshold

Enterprise89 of 104

under the label threshold

In time and attendance · 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 Kronos 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%	88 of 90	67%	3	under 10 labels · led by UKG Ready at 15%
Workforce management suites	Core HR and payroll	0%	67 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 Kronos 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 Kronos 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	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 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.

“"I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy." Users report: minimal development effort, escalating support fees, outdated systems, and poor customer support.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Time and attendance · negative prompt · hard negative

“Kronos (UKG) agreed to a $15 million BIPA settlement” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Time and attendance · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Kronos, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kronos was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Deputy7 of 131Not in the top three

Workday6 of 130Not in the top three

UKG Pro5 of 130Not in the top three

ADP4 of 130Not in the top three

BambooHR4 of 130Not in the top three

Homebase3 of 131Not in the top three

When I Work3 of 131Not in the top three

ADP Workforce Now2 of 130Not in the top three

Gusto2 of 130Not in the top three

Paycor2 of 130Not 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 Kronos. 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 7 of the 13 answers that named Kronos and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

softwareadvice.com3

adp.com2

assembled.com2

bigideasdb.com2

community.spiceworks.com2

forbes.com2

g2.com2

gartner.com2

hrmorning.com2

netchex.com2

Twenty-one of the twenty-one domain citations in answers naming Kronos came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

assembled.com/page/best-workforce-management-software2

bigideasdb.com/software/time-attendance2

community.spiceworks.com/t/time-attendance-tracking-who-is-your-vendor/8136832

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-workforce-management-software2

netchex.com/blog/the-best-payroll-software-for-large-business-a-comprehensive-guide2

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/time-and-attendance-software2

softwareadvice.com/hr/advanced-time-and-attendance-profile/reviews2

aceproject.com/blog/top-10-pros-cons-of-using-payroll-software-93878151

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Kronos

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

Kronos (UKG) 1Kronos (now Kronos UKG) 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 Kronos'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 Kronos, 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 kronos.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.