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ServiceNow HR Service Delivery

95Judge labels
25First choices
19Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
53% in HR help desk for enterprise buyers
Rank 5 of 93 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 24% of its 25 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.
In hr help desk · 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 ServiceNow HR Service Delivery 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
HR help desk and case managementOnboarding and employee experience5%5 of 9324%25accepted challenger
HR AI assistantsOnboarding and employee experience0%67 of 1190%1under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ServiceNow HR Service Delivery 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 ServiceNow HR Service Delivery across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510001
GPT-5.4 mini30003
Gemini 3.5 Flash10012
Perplexity Sonar12014
Grok 4.1 Fast10012
Mistral Small11002
DeepSeek V4 Flash10012
Llama 4 Maverick01113
Qwen 3.7 Flash01012
Kimi K211002
GLM 4.7 FlashX11002
MiniMax M2.510001

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
Direct12 labels8
Paraphrase21 labels9
Comparative32 labels22not counted in share
Budget-constrained9 labels5
Scale-constrained5 labels3
Negative16 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative95 labels in all, every segment counted; 25 of the 48 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.

“ServiceNow HRSD is uniquely positioned as a service delivery orchestration layer that complements (rather than replaces) your core HRIS” Kimi K2 · HR help desk · comparative prompt · first choice
“ServiceNow HR Service Delivery leads the pack for enterprise‑scale, AI‑driven case management and workflow orchestration.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · HR help desk · comparative prompt · first choice
“ServiceNow is strongest when you need enterprise-grade workflow orchestration across many departments and countries.” Perplexity Sonar · HR help desk · comparative prompt · first choice
“my default recommendation would be ServiceNow HR Service Delivery (HRSD) with Employee Center / Employee Center Pro” GPT-5.4 mini · HR help desk · paraphrase prompt · first choice

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.

“One buyer guide explicitly says not to buy ServiceNow HR Service Delivery in that case.” Perplexity Sonar · HR help desk · negative prompt · hard negative
“Heavyweight, enterprise-tier giants like ServiceNow HRSD or Workday Help... frequently over-purchased by companies that lack the resources to maintain them.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · HR help desk · negative prompt · soft negative
“While it is considered one of the best overall HR service delivery software for large, complex organizations, it has a steep learning curve.” Llama 4 Maverick · HR help desk · negative prompt · soft negative
“Avoid these unless you have a dedicated internal IT/HRIS specialist and the scale to demand global standardization.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · HR help desk · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ServiceNow HR Service Delivery, over the 95 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ServiceNow HR Service Delivery was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
SAP SuccessFactors31 of 950Not in the top three
Zendesk27 of 953Not in the top three
BambooHR19 of 955Not in the top three
Freshservice19 of 953Not in the top three
Workday18 of 955Not in the top three
Workday Help18 of 951Not in the top three
Dovetail Software17 of 952Not in the top three
Rippling16 of 952Not in the top three
Applaud16 of 950Not in the top three
Leena AI15 of 951Not 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 ServiceNow HR Service Delivery. 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 88 of the 95 answers that named ServiceNow HR Service Delivery and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com49
g2.com45
peoplemanagingpeople.com42
moveworks.com37
servicenow.comYour site33
gitnux.org30
worldmetrics.org29
wifitalents.com27
salesforce.com22
featurebase.app20

301 of the 334 domain citations in answers naming ServiceNow HR Service Delivery came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as ServiceNow HR Service Delivery

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as ServiceNow HR Service Delivery; a claim can dispute any of them.
ServiceNow HR Service Delivery (HRSD) 4ServiceNow HRSD 3ServiceNow HR 1ServiceNow HR Service Delivery (HRSD) with Employee Center / Employee Center Pro 1
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