Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 64 → 67 of 67
Workday · 1 category · RankedWorkday HCM Performance Management
95Judge labels
12First choices
40Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
20% in Performance management for enterprise buyers
Rank 84 of 85 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 52% of its 27 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Workday HCM Performance Management →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business67 of 67
0%12 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market84 of 85
0%27 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise2 of 94
20%56 labels
criticized challenger
In performance management · 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 Workday HCM Performance Management 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performance management | Performance and talent management | 0% | 84 of 85 | 52% | 27 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Workday HCM Performance Management held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Performance management · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 59 → 75 of 76
Enterprise▼−11Since September 2026: 32% → 21%, −11 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
21%from 32% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 2 pointsRank 1 → 2 of 89
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performance management | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 59 → 84 of 85 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Workday HCM Performance Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Workday HCM Performance Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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
Direct11 labels2
Paraphrase17 labels7
Comparative19 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained9 labels3
Scale-constrained9 labelsNone
Negative30 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative95 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 17 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.
“Workday Performance (Best for Enterprise)” MiniMax M2.5 · Performance management · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you already have a massive HRIS: Stick with Workday or SuccessFactors to avoid data silos” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Performance management · comparative prompt · alternative
“the trade-off is that they may be a larger implementation than a standalone performance tool” GPT-6 Luna · Performance management · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose Workday or SAP SuccessFactors if you need an enterprise suite.” Perplexity Sonar · Performance management · comparative 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.
“here are the performance management platforms and approaches you should avoid or be cautious about... Multiple sources highlight significant concerns with Workday's native performance module” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Performance management · negative prompt · hard negative
“Purpose-built for HR record-keeping, not actual performance management... Who should avoid: Organizations that want continuous performance conversations” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Performance management · negative prompt · hard negative
“you don't yet need—nor do you likely want—the heavy administrative burden and cost of enterprise-grade software like Workday or SAP SuccessFactors.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Performance management · scale prompt · soft negative
“performance modules bundled inside massive payroll/HRIS databases (such as ADP Workforce Now, Workday, Paycor, or Dayforce)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Performance management · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday HCM Performance Management, over the 95 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday HCM Performance Management was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday HCM Performance Management, over the 95 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday HCM Performance Management was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 Workday HCM Performance Management. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 86 of the 95 answers that named Workday HCM Performance Management and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
betterworks.com66
workhuman.com43
peoplemanagingpeople.com34
engagedly.com31
learn.g2.com31
hrcloud.com29
g2.com28
hibob.com28
capterra.com22
resources.rework.com21
333 of the 333 domain citations in answers naming Workday HCM Performance Management came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Workday HCM Performance Management stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Workday HCM Performance Management stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- not counted (“workday hcm performance management”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Workday's site (workday.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 84 of 85 in performance management
Segment leader
43%
Lattice
- First choices
- 12 across its categories
- Named in
- 95 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 86 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Workday HCM Performance Management
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday HCM Performance Management; a claim can dispute any of them.
Workday 19Workday Performance 4Workday (Performance Module specifically) 1Workday (native performance module) 1Workday HCM 1Workday Performance Management 1
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The company
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The company
Workday is the company behind Workday HCM Performance Management.
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Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Die innovative und flexible Cloud-Lösung für Ihr Personalwesen
- For
- HR-Führungskräfte
- Customers named
- LeonardoHiltiVilleroy and BochPUMADATEVMondelezPhilipsVilleroy & Boch
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- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Workday HCM Performance Management's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: workday.com/de-de/workday-innovative-cloud-hcm-loesung.html, workday.com/nl-nl/workday-innovative-cloud-hcm-solution.html, workday.com/en-us/pages/getting-the-basics-right-hcm.html, workday.com/en-us/products/workday-hcm-agent-led-demo.html, workday.com/en-us/pages/ig-employee-performance-management-me.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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