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Index › Vendors › Tango · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Tango

8Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative 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

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Tango was named 5 times in Employee onboarding, where BambooHR led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business67 of 77

under the label threshold

Mid-market31 of 104

under the label threshold

Enterprise33 of 87

under the label threshold

In employee onboarding · 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 Tango 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
Employee onboarding	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	31 of 104	20%	5	under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%

Movement

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

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained5 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Other options to consider are BambooHR, Gusto, Tango, and Click Boarding” Llama 4 Maverick · Employee onboarding · 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.

“options like Tango or Scribe offer free tiers for basic process docs/guides but lack comprehensive HR onboarding” Grok 4.1 Fast · Employee onboarding · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Tango, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Tango was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BambooHR7 of 81Not in the top three

Gusto6 of 81Not in the top three

Click Boarding5 of 80Not in the top three

Rippling4 of 81Not in the top three

Zoho People3 of 83Not in the top three

Enboarder3 of 80Not in the top three

Workday2 of 82Not in the top three

Deel2 of 80Not in the top three

FirstHR2 of 80Not in the top three

Homebase2 of 80Not 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 Tango. 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 6 of the 8 answers that named Tango and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

effy.ai6

hrcloud.com5

firsthr.app4

fitsmallbusiness.com3

saasrat.com3

elearningindustry.com2

forbes.com2

joinhomebase.com2

monday.com2

peoplemanagingpeople.com2

Thirty-one of the thirty-one domain citations in answers naming Tango came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

effy.ai/blog/employee-onboarding-software6

hrcloud.com/blog/best-employee-onboarding-software5

firsthr.app/compare/onboarding/employee-onboarding-software4

fitsmallbusiness.com/onboarding-software3

saasrat.com/categories/employee-onboarding3

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-onboarding-software2

joinhomebase.com/blog/effective-employee-onboarding2

monday.com/blog/service/employee-onboarding-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Tango

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

Tango (Pro) 1

Is this your product?

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 Tango'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 Tango, 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 tango.ai 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.