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Vacation Tracker

86Judge labels
17First choices
13Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
21% in Leave for small business buyers
Rank 2 of 89 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 35 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In leave · 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 Vacation Tracker 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Leave and absence managementCore HR and payroll13%2 of 8911%35accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Vacation Tracker 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 Vacation Tracker across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510102
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash31105
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.1 Fast11215
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash03036
Llama 4 Maverick21104
Qwen 3.7 Flash10102
Kimi K220002
GLM 4.7 FlashX10102
MiniMax M2.501102

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
Direct12 labels3
Paraphrase11 labels5
Comparative22 labels12not counted in share
Budget-constrained23 labels6
Scale-constrained8 labels3
Negative10 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative86 labels in all, every segment counted; 17 of the 31 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.

“If you just want simple leave tracking without paying for a bloated HR suite, get Vacation Tracker (best for Slack/Teams)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · comparative prompt · first choice
“Vacation Tracker is best for small teams that want leave approvals and calendar visibility without heavy admin work” Llama 4 Maverick · Leave · comparative prompt · first choice
“For growing teams: Vacation Tracker offers the best value at $2-4/user/month with robust features.” Kimi K2 · Leave · budget prompt · first choice
“Vacation Tracker: Highly rated for its ease of use and multi-level approval workflows.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Leave · 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.

“Recurring complaints about limited leave types and period customization... Inaccurate tracking” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Leave · negative prompt · soft negative
“Minimums make it pricier for <25 users; free plan now trial-like.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Leave · budget prompt · soft negative
“free plan was discontinued June 2026, so verify current status” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Leave · budget prompt · soft negative
“Lighter, cheaper, but fewer features” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Leave · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Vacation Tracker, over the 86 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vacation Tracker was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Timetastic51 of 8611Not in the top three
LeaveBoard46 of 868Not in the top three
Calamari36 of 861Not in the top three
Day Off33 of 863Not in the top three
Workday20 of 864Not in the top three
Gusto19 of 861Not in the top three
Factorial19 of 860Not in the top three
actiPLANS18 of 862Not 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 Vacation Tracker. 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 74 of the 86 answers that named Vacation Tracker and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

employsome.com60
forbes.com55
peoplemanagingpeople.com49
vacationtracker.ioYour site29
actiplans.com25
attendancebot.com25
technologyadvice.com24
connecteam.com22
tracefyhr.com22
capterra.com18

300 of the 329 domain citations in answers naming Vacation Tracker came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 Vacation Tracker'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 Vacation Tracker, 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 vacationtracker.io 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.

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