Every category where a model named Sling 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
Workforce scheduling	Core HR and payroll	15%	3 of 94	6%	18	accepted challenger
Frontline employee apps	Onboarding and employee experience	2%	7 of 97	0%	10	accepted challenger
Workforce management suites	Core HR and payroll	0%	20 of 95	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by ADP Workforce Now at 19%
Workforce planning	Workforce planning and analytics	0%	36 of 89	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sling 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 Sling 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	2	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	2	0	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	2	1	0	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	1	0	3
Mistral Small	1	0	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	3	0	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	1	3
Kimi K2	1	1	1	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	2	0	5
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	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

Direct5 labels1

Paraphrase7 labelsNone

Comparative24 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained37 labels12

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative6 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative85 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 16 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.

“Sling: Best for Teams of Up to 30 (On a $0 Budget) ... It is the only reliable platform offering free shift scheduling for up to 30 users.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce scheduling · budget prompt · first choice

“If you need a schedule for under 30 employees without paying anything, Sling is widely considered the best budget choice.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce scheduling · budget prompt · first choice

“the best frontline employee communication app is usually Sling if your team is small and scheduling-centric” Perplexity Sonar · Frontline employee apps · budget prompt · first choice

“Homebase and Sling are the top choices, especially for one-location or small teams” Mistral Small · Workforce scheduling · budget 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.

“Sling or Homebase (note: these cap out quickly at mid-scale)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce scheduling · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sling, over the 85 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sling was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Homebase76 of 8523Compare →

Connecteam65 of 8527Not in the top three

When I Work60 of 856Not in the top three

Deputy50 of 857Compare →

7shifts31 of 850Not in the top three

Blink16 of 850Not in the top three

Calendly9 of 850Not in the top three

Zelos8 of 850Not in the top three

UKG Pro7 of 851Not in the top three

Beekeeper7 of 850Not 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 Sling. 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 73 of the 85 answers that named Sling and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

connecteam.com40

joinhomebase.com38

peoplemanagingpeople.com37

forbes.com35

zapier.com32

guideflow.com29

shifton.com27

capterra.com24

getzelos.com19

softwareadvice.com16

297 of the 297 domain citations in answers naming Sling came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

zapier.com/blog/best-employee-scheduling-software31

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-employee-scheduling-software26

shifton.com/blog/best-employee-scheduling-software-small-business21

getzelos.com/best-frontline-employee-apps18

capterra.com/resources/best-employee-scheduling-software-for-small-business16

connecteam.com/online-employee-scheduling-apps16

joinhomebase.com/blog/best-employee-scheduling-apps15

changeengine.com/articles/frontline-communication-tools13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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