7 categories · RankedHubstaff
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employee monitoring | Workforce planning and analytics | 8% | 4 of 75 | 16% | 44 | accepted challenger | |
| Time and attendance | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 32 of 86 | 25% | 4 | 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. |
| Performance management | Performance and talent management | 0% | 82 of 85 | 100% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 43% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| People analytics | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 108 of 114 | 100% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Crunchr at 22% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| 360 feedback | Performance and talent management | 0% | 32 of 73 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 34% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 59 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. |
| Workforce scheduling | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 70 of 108 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Hubstaff across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If your budget is tight, Hubstaff is probably the best starting point for most small and mid-sized companies.” GPT-5.4 mini · Employee monitoring · budget prompt · first choice
“If you want the best overall value on a limited budget, pick Hubstaff.” Perplexity Sonar · Employee monitoring · budget prompt · first choice
“### 1. Hubstaff - Best for: Time tracking and payroll integration” MiniMax M2.5 · Employee monitoring · comparative prompt · first choice
“e.g., Teramind for security, Hubstaff for simplicity” Grok 4.1 Fast · Employee monitoring · scale 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.
“Why you should avoid them: These platforms are often marketed as "performance and productivity tracking" tools... is surveillance, not performance management.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Performance management · negative prompt · hard negative
“Frequently cited in privacy complaints for requiring installation on work devices with tracking capabilities” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Employee monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Intrusive "Bossware" ... these tools decimate employee trust” Gemini 3.5 Flash · People analytics · negative prompt · hard negative
“Tools to avoid: ActivTricks, Hubstaff, Time Doctor, Teramind.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Performance management · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Hubstaff, over the 163 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hubstaff was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 152 of the 163 answers that named Hubstaff and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
508 of the 573 domain citations in answers naming Hubstaff came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
hubstaff.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Hubstaff takes 8% of first choices and ActivTrak takes 33%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 18,100 a month (“hubstaff”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 202 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 100,097 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 20,617 · 552 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 12,509
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 23 across its categories
- Named in
- 163 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 152 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
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 602 | 4 | 2026-09-11 | Workforce planning, Payroll software | |
| Comparison | 81 | 0 | 2026-03-23 | ||
| Case study | 25 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 16 | 0 | 2024-02-09 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 9 | 4 | 2026-07-22 | ||
| Template or tool | 6 | 0 | 2018-01-16 | ||
| Report or ebook | 2 | 1 | 2026-08-14 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-11Idle time tracking software blog
- 2026-09-07Unusual employee activity tracking blog
- 2026-08-14Time reporting software | Hubstaff report or ebook
- 2026-08-04Time off leave management blog
- 2026-07-29Time tracking with screenshots software | Hubstaff blog
- 2026-07-22Hubstaff reporting webinar webinar or virtual event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page hubstaff.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
Hubstaff is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- time tracking software with productivity insights
- For
- remote teams and mobile crews
- Price stated
- 4.99 hubstaff.com
- Starting price
- 4.99 hubstaff.com
- Free plan or trial
- Free 14-day trial hubstaff.com
- Integrations claimed
- 35 hubstaff.com
- Certifications
- GDPRSOC 2 Type IIHIPAALGPDCCPALGPD and CCPA
- Customers named
- AhrefsInstacartGroupon®CENTURY 21ClearDeskOneLMSRingAffordable Staff
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What Hubstaff's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: hubstaff.com, hubstaff.com/pricing, trust.hubstaff.com, hubstaff.com/customers, hubstaff.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Hubstaff's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Hubstaff, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Hubstaff by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Hubstaff 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 Hubstaff, 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.