Every category where a model named ServiceNow 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 help desk and case management	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	93 of 93	69%	13	criticized challenger
HR AI assistants	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	116 of 119	80%	5	under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%
Employee onboarding	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	43 of 104	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%
Frontline employee apps	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	67 of 97	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56%
Internal talent marketplace	Performance and talent management	0%	95 of 129	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 26%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	6	6
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	2	1	3
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	3	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	1	0	3
Kimi K2	0	0	0	2	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	1	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

Direct14 labels4

Paraphrase12 labels1

Comparative14 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained7 labels2

Scale-constrained11 labels1

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative67 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 9 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 is the market leader for large enterprises looking for robust backend workflows... For massive scale/workflows: Choose ServiceNow.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · HR help desk · comparative prompt · first choice

“Best for Enterprise Scalability... Downside: Higher implementation cost and time” Qwen 3.7 Flash · HR help desk · direct 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 ServiceNow unless you have complex, cross-department enterprise needs... overkill for most mid-market companies” Kimi K2 · HR help desk · direct prompt · hard negative

“Heavy implementation (4–12 months), requires 3–5 IT admins; excessive for mid-market needs” Kimi K2 · HR AI assistants · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“purchasing a dedicated, enterprise-level HR service delivery platform (like ServiceNow or Zendesk for Employee Service) is rarely cost-effective” Gemini 3.5 Flash · HR help desk · budget prompt · soft negative

“rarely a massive enterprise monolith like ServiceNow or Workday Help—which require dedicated development teams and months of implementation” Gemini 3.5 Flash · HR help desk · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ServiceNow, over the 67 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ServiceNow was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Workday28 of 676Not in the top three

Zendesk28 of 673Not in the top three

Rippling19 of 672Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors19 of 671Not in the top three

BambooHR16 of 674Not in the top three

Freshservice15 of 676Not in the top three

Moveworks14 of 671Not in the top three

Jira Service Management11 of 672Not in the top three

UKG Pro11 of 671Not in the top three

Leena AI10 of 672Not 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. 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 48 of the 67 answers that named ServiceNow and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com26

gartner.com17

featurebase.app16

moveworks.com14

zendesk.com14

guideflow.com13

g2.com12

gitnux.org12

eesel.ai11

siit.io11

146 of the 146 domain citations in answers naming ServiceNow came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

featurebase.app/blog/hr-help-desk-ticketing-system15

zendesk.com/employee-service/hr-help-desk-software11

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-hr-ticketing-system10

gartner.com/reviews/market/onboarding-software8

paycor.com/resource-center/articles/best-enterprise-onboarding-software8

asana.com/resources/best-employee-onboarding-software6

atlassian.com/itsm/esm/hr-help-desk-software6

bestrecruitingtools.com/blog/best-employee-onboarding-software-enterprise-20266

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as ServiceNow

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

ServiceNow (Employee Center) 1ServiceNow (HR Service Delivery) 1ServiceNow (HRSD) 1

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