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6 categories · Named, not ranked

OrangeHRM

11Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

6Categories

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

Standing

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. OrangeHRM was named 8 times in People analytics and 5 other categories, where HiBob led with 15%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business64 of 96

under the label threshold

Mid-market32 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In people analytics · 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 OrangeHRM 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
People analytics	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	32 of 99	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by HiBob at 15%
Performance management	Performance and talent management	0%	27 of 60	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 41%
HRIS and HCM platforms	Core HR and payroll	0%	33 of 46	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 22%
Internal talent marketplace	Performance and talent management	0%	61 of 129	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 26%
Leave and absence management	Core HR and payroll	0%	50 of 89	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28%
Workforce planning	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	47 of 89	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for OrangeHRM 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 OrangeHRM 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	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	2	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	2	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Ideal for companies wanting budget-friendly but highly customizable HR solutions” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Leave · budget prompt · alternative

“Very tight budget, <5 employees | Profit.co (free tier) or OrangeHRM” Kimi K2 · Performance management · budget prompt · alternative

“OrangeHRM if you have technical resources and want full control.” Kimi K2 · People analytics · budget prompt · alternative

“Free Software & Hosting | OrangeHRM (Open Source)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · People analytics · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as OrangeHRM, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and OrangeHRM was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zoho People8 of 113Not in the top three

BambooHR5 of 113Not in the top three

15Five4 of 110Not in the top three

Homebase3 of 111Not in the top three

PeopleHum3 of 111Not in the top three

Bitrix243 of 110Not in the top three

Google Sheets3 of 110Not in the top three

Lattice3 of 110Not in the top three

Small Improvements3 of 110Not in the top three

Effy AI2 of 112Not 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 OrangeHRM. 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 11 of the 11 answers that named OrangeHRM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com8

effy.ai6

fitsmallbusiness.com4

technologyadvice.com4

capterra.com3

everhour.com3

firsthr.app3

forbes.com3

jugglehire.com3

orangehrm.comYour site3

Thirty-seven of the forty domain citations in answers naming OrangeHRM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

effy.ai/blog/hr-systems-for-small-business3

effy.ai/blog/performance-management-software-for-small-business3

everhour.com/blog/hr-analytics-tools3

firsthr.app/compare/general/hr-analytics-software3

fitsmallbusiness.com/best-free-hr-software3

jugglehire.com/blog/hr-tips/people-analytics-tools3

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-performance-management-software-for-small-business3

basedash.com/blog/best-bi-tools-for-hr-and-people-analytics-teams-compared-20262

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as OrangeHRM

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

OrangeHRM (Open Source) 2OrangeHRM Starter 2

Is this your product?

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 OrangeHRM'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 OrangeHRM, 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 orangehrm.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.