Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 10 of 82, unchanged
6 categories · RankedGoCo
33Judge labels
7First choices
4Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
6Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
8% in Benefits administration for small business buyers
Rank 14 of 87 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 1 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business10 of 92
3%3 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market14 of 87
2%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In employee onboarding · 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 GoCo 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 onboarding | Onboarding and employee experience | 2% | 14 of 87 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 25% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. |
| Benefits administration | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 18 of 67 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Gusto at 20% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 31 of 98 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 24 of 66 | 0% | 1 | 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. |
| HSA and FSA administrators | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 73 of 111 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by HealthEquity at 29% | |
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 69 of 78 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 17% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, GoCo held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Employee onboarding · by segment
Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 13 of 80, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benefits administration | 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 10 → 18 of 67 |
| Employee onboarding | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 14 of 87, unchanged |
| Workforce planning | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 31 of 98, unchanged |
| 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 15 → 24 of 66 |
| Workforce management sui | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 69 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 GoCo 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 GoCo 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 3 | 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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained15 labels6
Scale-constrained3 labels1
Negative6 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative33 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 8 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.
“Zoho People and GoCo stand out with rates starting around $1-5 per employee monthly” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Employee onboarding · budget prompt · first choice
“Most Budget-Friendly: GoCo ... the absolute cheapest option for pure benefits administration” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Benefits administration · budget prompt · alternative
“pricing starting from $5/employee/month, making it one of the most affordable options” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Benefits administration · budget prompt · alternative
“Startups/Small Business (<50 employees): BambooHR or GoCo” Kimi K2 · HRIS and HCM platforms · 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.
“HR packages, but workforce features may require paid add-ons” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Workforce management sui · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as GoCo, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GoCo was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as GoCo, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GoCo 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 GoCo. 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 33 of the 33 answers that named GoCo and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com19
hibob.com18
guideflow.com16
gusto.com15
selectsoftwarereviews.com15
business.org13
g2.com13
joinforma.com11
rippling.com11
forbes.com10
141 of the 141 domain citations in answers naming GoCo came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
goco.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, GoCo takes 2% of first choices and Rippling takes 25%.ShowHide
Search and answers
goco.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, GoCo takes 2% of first choices and Rippling takes 25%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “onboarding platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “employee onboarding software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 14,800 a month (“goco”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 102 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 40,283 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 9,320 · 73 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,256
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 14 of 87 in employee onboarding
Segment leader
25%
Rippling
- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 33 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 33 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 goco.io
1,819
subdomains included
Content
1,149
counted in the table below
Documentation
509
Product · Integration
0 · 33
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,035 | 0 | 2025-05-05 | HRIS and HCM platforms, Employee onboarding | |
| Glossary or explainer | 36 | 0 | 2025-10-22 | HRIS and HCM platforms | |
| Comparison | 34 | 0 | 2025-09-16 | Payroll software, Benefits administration | |
| Case study | 19 | 0 | 2024-03-26 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 7 | 0 | 2023-07-05 | ||
| Report or ebook | 7 | 0 | 2023-09-15 | ||
| Template or tool | 6 | 0 | 2025-11-04 | HRIS and HCM platforms | |
| Conference or event | 4 | 0 | 2025-03-13 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2023-04-27 |
Most recent
- 2025-11-04End of year payroll preparation checklist template or tool
- 2025-10-22What is a qualifying life event and how do i add one glossary or explainer
- 2025-09-19What is gocos new spaces glossary or explainer
- 2025-09-19What is the ai knowledge base how do i use it glossary or explainer
- 2025-09-18What is the benefit sync dashboard 1 glossary or explainer
- 2025-09-18What is a section 125 plan glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page goco.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. 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
GoCo is its own company.ShowHide
The company
GoCo is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- A modern, all-in-one HR software platform designed to help small businesses spend less time on manual, painful, and complex HR tasks, so they can focus on growing happier, more productive teams.
- For
- small businesses
- Free plan or trial
- Take a free interactive tour today! goco.io
- Certifications
- SOC2 Type 2 Certified
- Customers named
- RhinoProColarelli ConstructionAmerican PharmaciesPrimrose School of Bee CaveZen Asset ManagementReal Time Medical SystemsPrep To Your DoorOneDigital
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, hosting
What GoCo's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: goco.io, trust.goco.io, goco.io/blog/customer-stories, goco.io/hris-platform/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for GoCo by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where GoCo 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 GoCo, 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.