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1 category · Named, not ranked

Leave Dates

13Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

8 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.

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Leave Dates was named 7 times in Leave, where BambooHR led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business21 of 72

under the label threshold

Mid-market25 of 89

under the label threshold

Enterprise83 of 94

under the label threshold

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 Leave Dates 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
Leave and absence management	Core HR and payroll	0%	25 of 89	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Leave Dates 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 Leave Dates across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

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.

“For small businesses wanting a budget-friendly tool, Leave Dates is a good fit.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Leave · budget prompt · alternative

“look at LeaveBoard, Leave Dates, or Pause” GPT-5.4 mini · Leave · comparative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

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

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

LeaveBoard9 of 133Not in the top three

Day Off8 of 132Not in the top three

BambooHR8 of 131Not in the top three

Timetastic7 of 132Not in the top three

Vacation Tracker7 of 132Not in the top three

Connecteam6 of 130Not in the top three

AbsenceSoft5 of 131Not in the top three

Factorial5 of 130Not in the top three

Buddy Punch4 of 130Not in the top three

Calamari4 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 Leave Dates. 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 13 of the 13 answers that named Leave Dates and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

forbes.com11

employsome.com10

peoplemanagingpeople.com9

actiplans.com6

guideflow.com6

technologyadvice.com6

articsledge.com5

connecteam.com5

vendordirectory.shrm.org5

attendancebot.com4

Sixty-seven of the sixty-seven domain citations in answers naming Leave Dates came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-leave-management-systems11

employsome.com/best/leave-management-software10

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-leave-management-software9

technologyadvice.com/blog/human-resources/leave-management-tools6

actiplans.com/blog/free-leave-management-software5

articsledge.com/post/leave-management-software5

guideflow.com/blog/leave-management-software5

vendordirectory.shrm.org/category/hcm-technology/leave-management-software5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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