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Index › Vendors › Replicon · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Replicon

22Judge labels

3First choices

4Negative labels

10 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

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Replicon was named 8 times in Leave and 1 other category, 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 business61 of 72

under the label threshold

Mid-market54 of 89

under the label threshold

Enterprise11 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 Replicon 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%	54 of 89	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28%
Time and attendance	Core HR and payroll	0%	25 of 90	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by UKG Ready at 15%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	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

Direct2 labels1

Paraphrase6 labels2

Comparative10 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 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.

“Replicon is highly scalable for mid-market service bureaus. It connects time directly to financials.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Time and attendance · direct prompt · alternative

“Specializes in managing complex labor regulations across different countries (global compliance).” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Leave · comparative prompt · alternative

“best if you need stronger compliance, billing accuracy, or more complex project/time management” Perplexity Sonar · Time and attendance · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Strong on global regulatory compliance (FMLA, ADA, etc.)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · 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.

“Steep learning curve, non-intuitive interface, reporting bugs, limited customization... overwhelming for smaller teams, complex to set up, and glitchy” Grok 4.1 Fast · Leave · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Replicon, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Replicon was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Workday11 of 223Not in the top three

UKG Pro10 of 225Not in the top three

BambooHR10 of 221Not in the top three

Rippling10 of 220Not in the top three

ADP Workforce Now6 of 220Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors6 of 220Not in the top three

Timetastic5 of 223Not in the top three

Vacation Tracker5 of 221Not in the top three

Calamari5 of 220Not in the top three

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM5 of 220Not 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 Replicon. 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 19 of the 22 answers that named Replicon and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com11

forbes.com10

worldmetrics.org10

employsome.com9

g2.com8

gartner.com7

gitnux.org7

connecteam.com6

leapsome.com6

wifitalents.com6

Eighty of the eighty domain citations in answers naming Replicon came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

employsome.com/best/leave-management-software9

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-leave-management-systems8

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-leave-management-software6

leapsome.com/blog/absence-management-software5

worldmetrics.org/best/leave-management-software5

gartner.com/reviews/market/absence-management-software4

apps365.com/blog/pto-tracking-software3

appsruntheworld.com/top-10-hcm-software-vendors-in-absence-management-market-segment3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Replicon

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

Replicon (now Deltek Replicon) 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 Replicon'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 Replicon, 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 replicon.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.