Mid-market▲+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 47 → 8 of 91
4 categories · Named, not rankedFloat
22Judge labels
6First choices
1Negative labels
7 / 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.
Standing
9 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Float was named 9 times in Leave and 3 other categories, where BambooHR led with 28%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market9 of 95
4%4 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
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 Float 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 | 4% | 9 of 95 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce scheduling | Core HR and payroll | 2% | 11 of 108 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 80 of 98 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 37 of 78 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 17% | =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, Float held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Leave · by segment
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leave | 0% | 4% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 47 → 9 of 95 |
| Workforce scheduling | 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 13 → 11 of 108 |
| Workforce planning | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 80 of 98, unchanged |
| Workforce management sui | 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 37 of 78, 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 Float 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 Float 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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
Direct9 labels4
Paraphrase6 labels2
Comparative3 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 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.
“Editor's Pick for Mid-Size Teams ... I'd recommend starting with Float or BambooHR” MiniMax M2.5 · Leave · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Float (Best Overall for Mid-Market Agencies & Tech Services)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce scheduling · direct prompt · first choice
“Float ⭐ Best Overall for Mid-Size Teams” Kimi K2 · Leave · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Float for mid-size teams that need automated accrual and manager planning on one leave calendar” Muse Glimmer 30B · 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.
“Tools like Float/ChartHop for resource scheduling don't scale to enterprise skills-aware modeling” Kimi K2 · Workforce planning · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Float, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Float was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Float, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Float 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 Float. 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 20 of the 22 answers that named Float and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
joinhomebase.com8
float.comYour site7
peoplemanagingpeople.com6
reddit.com6
connecteam.com5
gartner.com5
guideflow.com5
outsourceaccelerator.com5
worldmetrics.org5
zendesk.com5
Fifty of the fifty-seven domain citations in answers naming Float came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
float.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Float takes 4% of first choices and BambooHR takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
float.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Float takes 4% 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”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 60,500 a month (“float”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 177,387 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 38,659 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 6,849 · 257 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,108
- 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 95 in leave
Segment leader
28%
BambooHR
- First choices
- 6 across its categories
- Named in
- 22 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 20 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 float.com
741
subdomains included
Content
328
counted in the table below
Documentation
210
Product · Integration
6 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 274 | 0 | 2026-06-05 | ||
| Conference or event | 19 | 0 | 2025-11-04 | ||
| Case study | 18 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 6 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 6 | 3 | 2026-09-14 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | 0 | 2025-08-21 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page float.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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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Float by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Float 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 Float, 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.