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Index › Vendors › Playroll Orbit · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Playroll Orbit

9Judge labels

4First choices

0Negative labels

6 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

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Playroll Orbit was named 4 times in HR AI assistants, where Workativ Assistant led with 12%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business5 of 105

under the label threshold

Mid-market12 of 119

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In hr ai assistants · 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 Playroll Orbit 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
HR AI assistants	Onboarding and employee experience	2%	12 of 119	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained9 labels4

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.

“Best overall AI HR assistant for a limited budget: Playroll Orbit (HR‑GPT).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · HR AI assistants · budget prompt · first choice

“Free forever for basic queries (pro starts at $19/mo). Excellent for global compliance and payroll checks.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · HR AI assistants · budget prompt · alternative

“Top-ranked free HR AI in SMB guides... Perfect for remote/global teams.” Grok 4.1 Fast · HR AI assistants · 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 Playroll Orbit, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Playroll Orbit was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Gusto9 of 93Not in the top three

ChatGPT5 of 92Not in the top three

Claude5 of 91Not in the top three

Leena AI5 of 90Not in the top three

Factorial4 of 90Not in the top three

Rippling4 of 90Not in the top three

Bonusly3 of 90Not in the top three

Kvistly3 of 90Not in the top three

Workativ Assistant3 of 90Not in the top three

HelpJet2 of 91Not 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 Playroll Orbit. 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 9 of the 9 answers that named Playroll Orbit and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

firsthr.app9

peoplebox.ai9

thenontechai.com9

gusto.com6

herothemes.com6

rippling.com6

peoplemanagingpeople.com5

workativ.com5

kvistly.com4

aerochat.ai3

Sixty-two of the sixty-two domain citations in answers naming Playroll Orbit came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

firsthr.app/compare/core-hr/hr-ai-tools9

peoplebox.ai/blog/ai-tools-hr-teams9

thenontechai.com/best-free-low-cost-ai-hr-tools-small-businesses-20269

herothemes.com/blog/hr-chatbots6

rippling.com/blog/hr-ai-tools6

gusto.com/resources/guides/best-ai-hr-tools5

kvistly.com/blog/best-ai-tools-for-hr4

workativ.com/hr/blog/hr-chatbots-for-smbs4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Playroll Orbit

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

Playroll Orbit (HR-GPT) 3

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

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