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Alternatives to Calamari, as AI models named them

In the October 2026 Edition, 233 of the 252 answers collected in the one category where Calamari holds a standing named it neither as a first choice nor as an alternative. These are the products those answers put first, category by category and buyer by buyer. The output is the models' output.

Named instead, most often
First choices in the 233 answers that did not name Calamari, every category and segment above added together; a product can be counted in several. Each category below keeps its own denominator.

Leave and absence management

Core HR and payroll. Six framings, fourteen models, one answer each per buyer segment; an answer counts here when Calamari is not its first choice or an alternative in it.
Small businessCalamari is #9 of 14 here at 2% of first choices, 12 labels.

Seventy-five of the eighty-four answers did not name Calamari; it was the first choice in two. The first choices in those seventy-five answers, sixteen products in all, the eight most named:

BambooHR9 of 75
LeaveBoard9 of 75
Timetastic6 of 75
Day Off3 of 75
Jibble2 of 75
8 more in the record.The full small business standing →
Mid-marketCalamari is #10 of 14 here at 0% of first choices, 15 labels.

Seventy-seven of the eighty-four answers did not name Calamari; it was the first choice in one. The first choices in those seventy-seven answers, twenty products in all, the eight most named:

BambooHR20 of 77
LeaveBoard8 of 77
Rippling6 of 77
HiBob3 of 77
actiPLANS3 of 77
Factorial2 of 77
Float2 of 77
12 more in the record.The full mid-market standing →
EnterpriseCalamari holds 8 labels here, under the 10-label cutoff, so it is unranked.

Eighty-one of the eighty-four answers did not name Calamari; it was the first choice in one. The first choices in those eighty-one answers, eighteen products in all, the eight most named:

Workday30 of 81
UKG Pro7 of 81
ADP3 of 81
Replicon2 of 81
Rippling2 of 81
10 more in the record.The full enterprise standing →

How to read this

A category is asked six ways of each of fourteen models on behalf of each buyer segment, so a segment is eighty-four answers. An answer belongs on this page when the judge labeled Calamari neither its first choice nor an alternative in it; the products listed are the first choices those answers made, counted once per answer. An answer that named nothing first, or named Calamari only in passing, is in the denominator and adds to no product. The counts are not the category standing, which is on the category page with its share and rank; they are the same record read from Calamari's side.

Every answer and every label behind these figures is in the record, sent on request. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index, and a product named instead of Calamari was named by a model, not endorsed by anyone.