Small business=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 9 → 10 of 58
4 categories · RankedCalamari
38Judge labels
2First choices
4Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Leave for small business buyers
Rank 19 of 95 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 15 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Calamari →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business11 of 65
2%12 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market19 of 95
0%15 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise19 of 98
2%8 labels
under the label threshold
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 Calamari 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leave and absence management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 19 of 95 | 0% | 15 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Time and attendance | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 38 of 86 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Clockify at 12% | |
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 54 of 78 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 17% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 39 of 98 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 37% | =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, Calamari held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Leave · 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 17 of 91, unchanged
Enterprise=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 82 → 85 of 89
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 17 → 19 of 95 |
| Time and attendance | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 38 of 86, unchanged |
| Workforce management sui | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 54 of 78, unchanged |
| Workforce planning | 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 41 → 39 of 98 |
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 Calamari 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 Calamari 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct6 labels1
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative9 labelsNone
Budget-constrained10 labels1
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative9 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative38 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 4 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.
“Go with lightweight, dedicated PTO trackers like Vacation Tracker, Calamari, or Timetastic” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · negative prompt · first choice
“Competitors like LeaveBoard or Calamari typically include these basic features in their standard pricing tiers.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Leave · negative prompt · alternative
“Choose Calamari if you have an international workforce and need an affordable, highly-compliant dedicated tracker” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Calamari specializes specifically in leave management and time-tracking without the bloat” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Calamari, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Calamari was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Calamari, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Calamari 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 Calamari. 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 38 of the 38 answers that named Calamari and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
forbes.com24
guideflow.com22
actiplans.com20
employsome.com20
peoplemanagingpeople.com19
firsthr.app14
articsledge.com11
capterra.com11
leapsome.com10
softwareadvice.com10
161 of the 161 domain citations in answers naming Calamari came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
calamari.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Calamari takes 0% of first choices and BambooHR takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
calamari.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Calamari takes 0% of first choices and BambooHR takes 28%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “leave management tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “leave management software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 201,000 a month (“calamari”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 8,684 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 2,256 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 917 · 49 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,017
- 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 95 in leave
Segment leader
28%
BambooHR
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 38 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 38 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
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on calamari.io
872
subdomains included
Content
280
counted in the table below
Documentation
232
Product · Integration
0 · 10
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 216 | 1 | 2026-08-04 | HRIS and HCM platforms, Performance management | |
| Glossary or explainer | 24 | 14 | 2026-07-10 | Leave | |
| Case study | 23 | undated | Leave | ||
| Comparison | 8 | 0 | 2026-05-15 | ||
| Template or tool | 8 | 0 | 2026-03-11 | Time and attendance | |
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-08-04Strategic hr in 2027 the 5 skills that matter and the busywork blocking them blog
- 2026-07-10Common mistakes when designing a review process and how to avoid them glossary or explainer
- 2026-07-10Creating an annual review cycle for a company of 30 50 people glossary or explainer
- 2026-07-10Goal setting in a fast growing company how to keep performance reviews grounded glossary or explainer
- 2026-07-10How to build a simple useful performance review form glossary or explainer
- 2026-07-10How to build a work culture that supports performance reviews glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page calamari.io 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.
Follow Calamari
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Calamari is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Calamari is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- HR Tools For High‑Performing Teams
- For
- startups, remote-first companies, and small to medium-sized businesses looking to replace spreadsheets and save time on HR admin
- Price stated
- $2 per employee/month calamari.io
- Starting price
- 2 calamari.io
- Free plan or trial
- 14 days for free. No card required. calamari.io
- Integrations claimed
- 8 calamari.io
- Certifications
- ISO 27001SOC 2SOC 3GDPR compliantAWS Well Architected Framework
- Customers named
- Michał SadowskiParker RamsdellKarolina LatosBrightspotUsemeNetguruTraffitSofteq
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What Calamari's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: calamari.io, calamari.io/pricing, calamari.io/security, calamari.io/customers, calamari.io/partners. A claimed page can correct any of 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 Calamari'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 Calamari, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Calamari by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Calamari 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 Calamari, 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.