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 46 → 65 of 71
Ceridian · 14 categories · RankedDayforce
290Judge labels
23First choices
37Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
14Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
10% in Workforce management sui for enterprise buyers
Rank 9 of 78 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 15% of its 20 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Dayforce →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business70 of 76
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market9 of 78
4%20 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise3 of 81
10%39 labels
accepted challenger
In workforce management sui · 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 Dayforce 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 4% | 9 of 78 | 15% | 20 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce scheduling | Core HR and payroll | 2% | 8 of 108 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. |
| Benefits administration | Core HR and payroll | 2% | 14 of 67 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Gusto at 20% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Payroll software | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 18 of 58 | 10% | 10 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 17 of 66 | 25% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 26% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Succession planning | Performance and talent management | 0% | 27 of 93 | 12% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 28% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Time and attendance | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 23 of 86 | 17% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Clockify at 12% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Leave and absence management | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 35 of 95 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Global payroll and employer of record | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 20 of 61 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Deel at 30% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| HR help desk and case management | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 85 of 108 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 19% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 26 of 98 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 37% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Employee onboarding | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 60 of 87 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 25% | =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% | 41 of 114 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Crunchr at 22% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Performance management | Performance and talent management | 0% | 64 of 85 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 43% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Dayforce held within the floor in all fourteen categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Workforce management sui · by segment
Mid-market=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 11 of 71, unchanged
Enterprise▼−3Since September 2026: 12% → 9%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
9%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 2 → 3 of 70
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benefits administration | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 39 → 14 of 67 |
| Workforce scheduling | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 8 of 108, unchanged |
| Succession planning | 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 → 27 of 93 |
| Workforce planning | 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 → 26 of 98 |
| Workforce management sui | 2% | 2% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 11 → 9 of 78 |
| Payroll software | 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 21 → 18 of 58 |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | 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 11 → 17 of 66 |
| Time and attendance | 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 22 → 23 of 86 |
| Leave | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 35 of 95, unchanged |
| Global payroll | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 20 of 61, unchanged |
| HR help desk | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 85 of 108, unchanged |
| Employee onboarding | 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 89 → 60 of 87 |
| People analytics | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 41 of 114, unchanged |
| Performance management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 64 of 85, 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 Dayforce 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 Dayforce 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 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
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
Direct54 labels9
Paraphrase53 labels5
Comparative80 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained35 labels8
Scale-constrained23 labels1
Negative45 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative290 labels in all, every segment counted; 23 of the 29 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.
“Dayforce is best for mid-market organizations that want enrollment, payroll, and workforce management running on one unified platform.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Benefits administration · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Choose Dayforce if you want one unified system for HR, Payroll, and Time, and value real-time earnings visibility.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Time and attendance · comparative prompt · first choice
“mid-market teams often land on ADP Workforce Now, Dayforce, or UKG Pro for strong payroll and workforce management” Muse Glimmer 30B · Workforce management sui · direct prompt · first choice
“with Dayforce as my default first choice if you want a more unified HR/pay/scheduling stack” GPT-5.4 mini · Workforce management sui · paraphrase prompt · first choice
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.
“Highest Caution: Multiple Serious Complaints ... Customer service is repeatedly called "terrible"” Kimi K2 · Workforce management sui · negative prompt · hard negative
“Some heavy enterprise systems (like UKG Pro, Dayforce, or SAP SuccessFactors) might be overly complex and expensive to implement for 500 people.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce management sui · scale prompt · soft negative
“it is often considered overkill for smaller operations... making it a tool to approach with caution unless you have specific enterprise needs” Mistral Small · Leave · negative prompt · soft negative
“such as UKG, Dayforce, or Workday may be overkill for smaller teams because they often require higher implementation costs” Perplexity Sonar · Time and attendance · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Dayforce, over the 289 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Dayforce was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Dayforce, over the 289 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Dayforce 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 Dayforce. 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 278 of the 289 answers that named Dayforce and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
guideflow.com111
peoplemanagingpeople.com79
workforce.com65
g2.com60
adp.com57
rippling.com57
forbes.com55
hibob.com55
darwinbox.com53
learn.g2.com50
642 of the 642 domain citations in answers naming Dayforce came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
dayforce.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Dayforce takes 4% of first choices and Rippling takes 17%.ShowHide
Search and answers
dayforce.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Dayforce takes 4% of first choices and Rippling takes 17%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “wfm suites”
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not in the top ten
Position for “workforce management software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 450,000 a month (“dayforce”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 2,983 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 208,252 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 8,383 · 1,016 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 5,102
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 9 of 78 in workforce management sui
Segment leader
17%
Rippling
- First choices
- 23 across its categories
- Named in
- 289 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 278 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 dayforce.com
7,740
subdomains included
Content
4,237
counted in the table below
Documentation
1,198
Product · Integration
0 · 35
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 3,426 | 0 | 2025-11-25 | ||
| News or press | 384 | undated | |||
| Case study | 247 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 49 | 0 | 2025-11-20 | ||
| Comparison | 40 | 0 | 2026-06-30 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 37 | 3 | 2026-09-16 | ||
| Conference or event | 24 | 0 | 2026-06-04 | ||
| Template or tool | 15 | 2 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Report or ebook | 12 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 3 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-17Open enrollment checklist for hr teams template or tool
- 2026-09-17Open enrollment checklist for hr teams template or tool
- 2026-09-16What is global payroll glossary or explainer
- 2026-08-24What is employee experience glossary or explainer
- 2026-08-24What is employee experience glossary or explainer
- 2026-06-30HCM requirements checklist: Features that matter | Dayforce template or tool
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page dayforce.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Dayforce
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Dayforce; a claim can dispute any of them.
Dayforce (Ceridian) 14Ceridian Dayforce 10Dayforce (formerly Ceridian) 8Ceridian (Dayforce) 2ADP Workforce Now & Dayforce 1Ceridian 1Dayforce (formerly Ceridian Dayforce) 1Dayforce Workforce Management 1Paycor/Dayforce 1
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The company
Ceridian is the company behind Dayforce.ShowHide
The company
Ceridian is the company behind Dayforce.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- the global people platform that delivers simplicity at scale, with payroll, HR, benefits, talent, and workforce management all in one place
- For
- HR teams
- Free plan or trial
- Request a demo dayforce.com
- Customers named
- Nashville PredatorsMotivateOTG
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Dayforce's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: dayforce.com, dayforce.com/why-dayforce/compliance, dayforce.com/why-dayforce/customer-stories, dayforce.com/how-we-help/services-and-support/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- 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 Dayforce, 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;
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