21 categories · RankedUKG Pro
454Judge labels
52First choices
88Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
21Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
42% in Workforce management sui for enterprise buyers
Rank 11 of 99 in the mid-market standing
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 12% of its 8 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business93 of 100
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market11 of 99
2%8 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise10 of 92
2%10 labels
accepted challenger
In succession planning · 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Succession planning | Performance and talent management | 2% | 11 of 99 | 12% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 31% |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 12 of 46 | 31% | 26 | criticized challenger |
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 16 of 95 | 35% | 23 | criticized challenger |
| Time and attendance | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 20 of 90 | 18% | 11 | accepted challenger |
| Benefits administration | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 17 of 54 | 11% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by PlanSource at 23% |
| Payroll software | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 18 of 43 | 11% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 28% |
| HR help desk and case management | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 20 of 93 | 12% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 26% |
| Leave and absence management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 39 of 89 | 20% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28% |
| Workforce scheduling | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 54 of 94 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26% |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 78 of 89 | 67% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 31% |
| Frontline employee apps | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 90 of 97 | 100% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56% |
| Global payroll and employer of record | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 41 of 66 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Deel at 22% |
| HR compliance and policy management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 76 of 84 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 16% |
| 360 feedback | Performance and talent management | 0% | 60 of 77 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 40% |
| Applicant tracking systems | Talent acquisition | 0% | 40 of 50 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Greenhouse at 47% |
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 122 of 189 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18% |
| Earned wage access | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 33 of 61 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Tapcheck at 29% |
| Employee onboarding | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 87 of 104 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29% |
| Internal talent marketplace | Performance and talent management | 0% | 96 of 129 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 26% |
| Org charts and org design | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 60 of 81 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 27% |
| Performance management | Performance and talent management | 0% | 54 of 60 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 41% |
Movement
This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for UKG Pro 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 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 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 20 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 9 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 23 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 12 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 13 |
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
Direct64 labels15
Paraphrase74 labels21
Comparative136 labels26not counted in share
Budget-constrained54 labels11
Scale-constrained43 labels5
Negative83 labels6not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative454 labels in all, every segment counted; 52 of the 84 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.
“1. UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) - Best for: Enterprise HCM + WFM... UKG excels in demand-based forecasting and analytics.” Mistral Small · Workforce management sui · comparative prompt · first choice
“Market leader: 34.8% share in 2024. ... enterprises need compliance/scalability (UKG for shifts)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Time and attendance · comparative prompt · first choice
“UKG is often considered the gold standard specifically for *timekeeping* and *scheduling* logic” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce management sui · comparative prompt · first choice
“Key Strength: Industry-leading scheduling, labor analytics, and workforce forecasting” Kimi K2 · Workforce management sui · comparative 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.
“Multiple ransomware attacks ... slow support, buggy mobile clock-ins, logouts, outdated UI, high implementation costs, integration issues. Past BIPA suits add risk.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Time and attendance · negative prompt · hard negative
“UKG (UltiPro / Kronos): Since the merger, users have expressed frustration regarding integration issues... Why avoid them?” GLM 4.7 FlashX · HRIS and HCM platforms · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid (or heavily vet): UKG's Kronos Private Cloud (until proven post-breach credibility is restored)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · HR help desk · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid enterprise platforms like UKG Pro or Workday until you're well into the hundreds of employees” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Workforce management sui · budget prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as UKG Pro, over the 450 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and UKG Pro was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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. 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 399 of the 450 answers that named UKG Pro and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com173
guideflow.com155
gartner.com131
g2.com128
worldmetrics.org114
forbes.com102
learn.g2.com98
rippling.com82
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com76
gitnux.org70
1,129 of the 1,129 domain citations in answers naming UKG Pro came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as UKG Pro
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as UKG Pro; a claim can dispute any of them.
UKG 41UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group) 13UKG (formerly Kronos) 5UKG Pro (formerly Kronos) 4UKG Pro (UltiPro) 3UKG (Kronos) 2UKG (Dimensions / Workforce Central) 1UKG (Kronos Private Cloud / Workforce Central) 1UKG (Pro and Ready) 1UKG (Pro/Dimensions, formerly Kronos/Ultimate) 1UKG (UltiPro / Kronos) 1UKG (Ultimate Kronos) 1UKG (Workforce Central / UKG Pro WFM) 1UKG (ex-Kronos, UKG Pro/Ready/Dimensions) 1UKG (formerly Kronos / Ultimate Software) 1UKG (formerly Kronos) / UKG Pro 1UKG (formerly Ultimate Kronos Group) 1UKG Benefits 1UKG Pro (Workforce Management) 1UKG Pro (formerly Kronos Workforce Ready) 1
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