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Workday VNDLY

56Judge labels
5First choices
6Negative 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
7% in Contingent workforce man for enterprise buyers
Rank 11 of 97 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 18 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In contingent workforce man · 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 VNDLY 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
Contingent workforce managementWorkforce planning and analytics2%11 of 9717%18accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Workday VNDLY 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 Workday VNDLY across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00101
Gemini 3.5 Flash10023
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.1 Fast00202
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash01113
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201102
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct17 labels1
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative11 labelsNone
Budget-constrained13 labels2
Scale-constrained9 labels2
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative56 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 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 VNDLY: Highly scalable, modern, and integrates seamlessly if you are already using Workday” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Contingent workforce man · scale prompt · first choice
“If you're already invested in the Workday ecosystem, VNDLY offers compelling integration advantages.” Kimi K2 · Contingent workforce man · direct prompt · alternative
“Better-fit options commonly cited for your size include Magnit, SimplifyVMS, VNDLY, and Conexis.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Contingent workforce man · scale prompt · alternative
“If you already run on Workday, Workday VNDLY is the most seamless choice.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Contingent workforce man · direct 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.

“Avoid legacy enterprise VMS platforms like ... Workday VNDLY” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Contingent workforce man · budget prompt · hard negative
“usually not cost-effective for a budget-constrained company” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Contingent workforce man · budget prompt · hard negative
“Enterprise giants like SAP Fieldglass, Beeline, and Workday VNDLY are often too complex, slow to implement, and cost-prohibitive” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Contingent workforce man · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workday VNDLY, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday VNDLY was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
SAP Fieldglass54 of 5621Not in the top three
Beeline50 of 5611Not in the top three
Magnit40 of 563Not in the top three
SimplifyVMS23 of 563Not in the top three
VectorVMS18 of 560Not in the top three
SimpleVMS15 of 566Not in the top three
Coupa Contingent Workforce14 of 560Not in the top three
Worksuite14 of 560Not in the top three
Conexis VMS9 of 562Not in the top three
Upwork8 of 560Not 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 Workday VNDLY. 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 48 of the 56 answers that named Workday VNDLY and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hrtechsaas.com40
talentdesk.io36
bestrecruitingtools.com32
aihratlas.com25
worldmetrics.org21
rfp.wiki17
conexisvmssoftware.com16
g2.com13
stackbriefly.com13
gitnux.org12

225 of the 225 domain citations in answers naming Workday VNDLY came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Workday VNDLY

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday VNDLY; a claim can dispute any of them.
VNDLY 3VNDLY (Workday) 3VNDLY/Workday 1
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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 Workday VNDLY'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 Workday VNDLY, 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 workday.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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