Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 16 → 9 of 54
5 categories · RankedBuddy Punch
64Judge labels
7First choices
14Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
6% in Time and attendance for small business buyers
Rank 19 of 86 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 11 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Buddy Punch →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business6 of 57
6%23 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market19 of 86
0%11 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In time and attendance · 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 Buddy Punch 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time and attendance | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 19 of 86 | 9% | 11 | accepted challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 68 of 78 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 17% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Employee monitoring | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 62 of 75 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ActivTrak at 33% | |
| Leave and absence management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 42 of 95 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| People analytics | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 88 of 114 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Crunchr at 22% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Buddy Punch held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Time and attendance · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 12 → 19 of 77
EnterprisegoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsNot ranked
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time and attendance | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 12 → 19 of 86 |
| Workforce management sui | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 68 of 78, unchanged |
| Employee monitoring | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 62 of 75, unchanged |
| Leave | 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 29 → 42 of 95 |
| People analytics | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 88 of 114, unchanged |
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 Buddy Punch 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 Buddy Punch 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
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
Direct13 labels3
Paraphrase9 labels4
Comparative11 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labelsNone
Scale-constrained9 labelsNone
Negative13 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative64 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 7 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.
“Easy setup, geofencing, facial recognition, G2 awards for usability/relationship. Affordable.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Time and attendance · direct prompt · alternative
“Buddy Punch, TSheets, or ClockIn: These typically start at $2-5 per employee per month” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Time and attendance · budget prompt · alternative
“Best-in-class time + scheduling | Deputy, Buddy Punch, TCP (TimeClock Plus)” Kimi K2 · Time and attendance · scale prompt · alternative
“Buddy Punch combines time off management with advanced scheduling” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Leave · 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.
“"Products like Homebase, When I Work, or Buddy Punch may claim "enterprise" features but lack the fundamentals"” Muse Glimmer 30B · Workforce management sui · negative prompt · hard negative
“Reported issues with customer support responsiveness ... Hidden fees or unclear pricing structures” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Time and attendance · negative prompt · hard negative
“Treat those as enhanced-due-diligence flags, not a finding that each vendor broke the law” GPT-6 Luna · People analytics · negative prompt · soft negative
“Specific Platforms to Be Cautious About ... Buddy Punch” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Employee monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Buddy Punch, over the 64 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Buddy Punch was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Buddy Punch, over the 64 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Buddy Punch 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 Buddy Punch. 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 63 of the 64 answers that named Buddy Punch and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
forbes.com31
joinhomebase.com30
peoplemanagingpeople.com26
buddypunch.comYour site23
guideflow.com23
timetrex.com21
apps365.com16
firsthr.app16
g2.com15
jibble.io15
193 of the 216 domain citations in answers naming Buddy Punch came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
buddypunch.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Buddy Punch takes 0% of first choices and Clockify takes 12%.ShowHide
Search and answers
buddypunch.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Buddy Punch takes 0% of first choices and Clockify takes 12%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “time and attendance system”
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not in the top ten
Position for “time and attendance systems”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 9,900 a month (“buddy punch”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 48 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 39,250 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 10,824 · 69 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,434
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 19 of 86 in time and attendance
Segment leader
12%
Clockify
- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 64 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 63 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on buddypunch.com
888
subdomains included
Content
218
counted in the table below
Documentation
550
Product · Integration
10 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 181 | 10 | 2026-09-23 | Payroll software, Workforce scheduling | |
| Comparison | 26 | 3 | 2026-07-08 | ||
| Case study | 6 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 3 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | 1 | 2026-08-11 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23First few weeks blog
- 2026-09-07Construction time card apps blog
- 2026-08-31Employee location tracking balance blog
- 2026-08-111014443 how to add or edit time off employee web app glossary or explainer
- 2026-08-10The right amount of flexible blog
- 2026-08-05Overflowing business toolbox blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page buddypunch.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.
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The company
Buddy Punch is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Buddy Punch is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Buddy Punch is affordable and easy to use employee time tracking, scheduling, and payroll software that simplifies team management for businesses of all sizes.
- For
- businesses whose hourly employees work in more than one place
- Price stated
- Billed Monthly / Billed Annually (Save up to 18%) buddypunch.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 4.99 buddypunch.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Try for Free buddypunch.com
- Integrations claimed
- 8 buddypunch.com/time-clock-software/features
- Customers named
- Heart ValleyHealthtreeRumble BoxingCoast to Coast TransportersCosmick TechnologiesLeete Tire & Auto CenterFarmers Insurance
- Not stated on the pages read
- Certifications, hosting
What Buddy Punch's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: buddypunch.com, buddypunch.com/pricing, buddypunch.com/security, buddypunch.com/time-clock-software/features, buddypunch.com/time-clock-software/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Buddy Punch is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Buddy Punch, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.