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8 categories · Ranked

Monday.com

68Judge labels
3First choices
24Negative labels
9 of 12Models named it
8Categories
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 Succession planning for mid-market buyers
Rank 17 of 99 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 33% of its 3 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In succession planning · 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 Monday.com 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
Succession planningPerformance and talent management2%17 of 9933%3under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 31%
Workforce planningWorkforce planning and analytics0%34 of 8922%9under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31%
Employee onboardingOnboarding and employee experience0%103 of 10460%5under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%
Goals and OKRsPerformance and talent management0%50 of 5460%5under 10 labels · led by Tability at 29%
Time and attendanceCore HR and payroll0%69 of 9050%2under 10 labels · led by UKG Ready at 15%
Applicant tracking systemsTalent acquisition0%32 of 500%1under 10 labels · led by Greenhouse at 47%
Internal talent marketplacePerformance and talent management0%57 of 1290%1under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 26%
Workforce schedulingCore HR and payroll0%80 of 94100%1under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Monday.com 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 Monday.com across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00022
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00123
Mistral Small00112
DeepSeek V4 Flash02024
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash02237
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX11316
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
Direct5 labelsNone
Paraphrase8 labels2
Comparative20 labelsNone
Budget-constrained11 labels1
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative18 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative68 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“Monday.com ($9/seat) or Empxtrack (~$3/seat) are solid choices.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Succession planning · budget prompt · first choice
“For finance‑heavy organizations, DATABASICS or monday Work Management are worth evaluating.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Time and attendance · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“OR use Monday.com (Basic) to track 10-20 key roles for ~$300/year” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Succession planning · budget prompt · alternative
“Best for Visual Workflows (Small Teams): Monday.com” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Employee onboarding · 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.

“Avoid using your internal tools (like Asana, ClickUp, or Monday) as customer-facing onboarding portals.” Mistral Small · Employee onboarding · negative prompt · hard negative
“avoid running customer onboarding through internal PM tools like Monday.com, Asana, ClickUp” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Employee onboarding · negative prompt · hard negative
“these are dangerous to rely on for HR due to security concerns” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Employee onboarding · negative prompt · hard negative
“Many PM tools (e.g., Asana, standard Monday.com boards, ClickUp basics) offer "goal features" that are often described by users as "half-baked"” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Goals and OKRs · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Monday.com, over the 68 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Monday.com was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Asana30 of 682Not in the top three
BambooHR19 of 680Not in the top three
ClickUp18 of 682Not in the top three
Lattice16 of 681Not in the top three
Rippling13 of 682Not in the top three
Gusto12 of 682Not in the top three
ChartHop11 of 681Not in the top three
Notion9 of 681Not in the top three
Deel HR9 of 680Not in the top three
Trello9 of 680Not 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 Monday.com. 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 50 of the 68 answers that named Monday.com and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com29
g2.com16
monday.comYour site15
selectsoftwarereviews.com15
learn.g2.com14
firsthr.app12
gartner.com12
guideflow.com11
capterra.com9
okrstool.com9

127 of the 142 domain citations in answers naming Monday.com came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Monday.com

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Monday.com; a claim can dispute any of them.
monday AI Workspace 4monday.com 4Monday 3Monday.com (Basic Plan) 1monday AI 1monday AI Work Platform 1monday Work Management 1monday Work Platform 1
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