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Index › Vendors › UKG Pro / Dayforce · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

UKG Pro / Dayforce

4Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

3 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. UKG Pro / Dayforce was named 2 times in Payroll software, where Rippling led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market33 of 43

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In payroll software · 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 UKG Pro / Dayforce 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
Payroll software	Core HR and payroll	0%	33 of 43	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 28%

Movement

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 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.

“Frequently shortlisted by midmarket buyers; integrated HR, payroll, benefits, and analytics.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Payroll software · paraphrase 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.

“Likely overkill for a typical white-collar B2B firm.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Payroll software · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as UKG Pro / Dayforce, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and UKG Pro / Dayforce was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

ADP Workforce Now3 of 40Not in the top three

Rippling3 of 40Not in the top three

Paylocity2 of 41Not in the top three

Deel2 of 40Not in the top three

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM2 of 40Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors1 of 41Not in the top three

Connecteam1 of 40Not in the top three

Cornerstone OnDemand1 of 40Not in the top three

Deputy1 of 40Not in the top three

Eightfold AI1 of 40Not 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 UKG Pro / Dayforce. 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 4 of the 4 answers that named UKG Pro / Dayforce and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com4

gartner.com3

capterra.com2

darwinbox.com2

deel.com2

g2.com2

omnihr.co2

paylocity.com2

saasrat.com2

softwareadvice.com2

Twenty-three of the twenty-three domain citations in answers naming UKG Pro / Dayforce came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

deel.com/blog/best-payroll-software-medium-business2

omnihr.co/blog/payroll-software-for-mid-sized-companies2

peoplemanagingpeople.com/services/best-payroll-services2

saasrat.com/blog/best-payroll-software-for-mid-market2

workforce.com/compare/best-payroll-companies2

acciyo.com/biggest-hr-payroll-companies-a-complete-guide-to-the-top-hris-and-hcm-providers1

b2breviews.com/payroll-software1

bene-care.com/time-and-attendance-payroll-integration1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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