Every category where a model named DeskTime 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
Employee monitoring	Workforce planning and analytics	2%	8 of 75	0%	18	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for DeskTime yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated DeskTime across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	3	1	4
Mistral Small	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative16 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labels1

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative4 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative42 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.

“DeskTime being the cheapest option at around $3.50” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Employee monitoring · budget prompt · first choice

“Affordable at ~$6.42/user/month (billed annually)... but no robust free plan for ongoing use.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Employee monitoring · budget prompt · alternative

“DeskTime / ActivTrak if you want more productivity analytics and are okay paying more.” GPT-5.4 mini · Employee monitoring · budget prompt · alternative

“Choose Hubstaff / Time Doctor / DeskTime if the primary need is defensible timesheets” Muse Glimmer 30B · Employee monitoring · comparative 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 DeskTime, over the 42 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and DeskTime was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Hubstaff36 of 428Compare →

ActivTrak29 of 427Compare →

Teramind26 of 423Compare →

Time Doctor25 of 421Compare →

Insightful24 of 421Compare →

Apploye18 of 426Compare →

Monitask12 of 421Not among the top eight

WorkTime12 of 421Not among the top eight

CurrentWare10 of 420Not among the top eight

Controlio9 of 420Not among the top eight

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 DeskTime. 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 41 of the 42 answers that named DeskTime and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

currentware.com30

forbes.com28

insightful.io22

peoplemanagingpeople.com20

tmetric.com20

employee-monitoring.net19

fitsmallbusiness.com19

learn.g2.com17

jibble.io14

traqq.com14

203 of the 203 domain citations in answers naming DeskTime came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

currentware.com/blog/best-employee-monitoring-software27

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-employee-monitoring-software26

tmetric.com/best-software/best-employee-monitoring-software20

fitsmallbusiness.com/employee-monitoring-software19

learn.g2.com/best-employee-monitoring-software16

traqq.com/blog/best-employee-monitoring-software14

jibble.io/best-employee-monitoring-software13

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-employee-monitoring-software12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

desktime.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, DeskTime takes 2% of first choices and ActivTrak takes 33%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “employee monitoring tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “employee monitoring tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 1,000 a month (“desktime”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 25 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 9,245 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 4,966 · 55 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 4,235
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

10 ads · 7 text, 2 image, 1 video · 5 shown in the last 30 days

First shown December 2022, as DeskTime, SIA, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 3 in the year, 7 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 8 of 75 in employee monitoring

Segment leader

33%

ActivTrak

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 42 answers
Its own site cited: in 41 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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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Addresses on desktime.com

982

subdomains included

Content

400

counted in the table below

Documentation

338

Product · Integration

19 · 6

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	350	9	2026-09-23	Time and attendance
Case study	20	undated
Comparison	16	0	2026-06-26
Webinar or virtual event	10	undated
Glossary or explainer	3	0	2024-04-11
Template or tool	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-23Incumplimiento del registro horario en espana blog
2026-09-21Time tracking fines spain blog
2026-09-18Workload management how to divide work to help your team succeed blog
2026-09-18Repartir la carga de trabajo sin quemar al equipo blog
2026-09-0410 best automatic time tracking software in 2026 blog
2026-09-04Los 10 mejores programas de seguimiento automatico del tiempo 2026 blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page desktime.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.

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The company

DeskTime is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Automatic time tracking software for productivity insights
desktime.com
For: businesses
desktime.com
Price stated: Pro: $6.42 per user /month (Billed annually); Premium: $9.17 per user /month (Billed annually); Enterprise: Custom desktime.com/pricing
Starting price: 6.42 desktime.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: 14 day free trial desktime.com
Integrations claimed: 7 desktime.com
Certifications: ISO 27001 compliantGDPR compliantISO 27001 & 27701 certifiedISO 27001ISO 27701GDPR
Hosting: GermanyIreland
Customers named: HasTechGrabOnNexus Auto TransportSkrivanekMaponNtoNRoadgamesBrian

What DeskTime's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: desktime.com, desktime.com/pricing, desktime.com/security, desktime.com/features/exports, desktime.com/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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where DeskTime 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 DeskTime, 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.