Small businessnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 31 of 58, unchanged
Sage HR
19Judge labels
1First choices
3Negative labels
10 / 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.
Standing
9 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Sage HR was named 9 times in Leave and 5 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 business32 of 65
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market38 of 95
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise16 of 98
2%1 label
under the label threshold
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 Sage HR 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 | 0% | 38 of 95 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 33 of 78 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 17% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| 360 feedback | Performance and talent management | 0% | 46 of 73 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 34% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 47 of 66 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 26% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| People analytics | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 97 of 114 | 100% | 1 | 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. |
| Workforce scheduling | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 95 of 108 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 37% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Sage HR held within the floor in all six categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Leave · by segment
Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 45 of 91, unchanged
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 61 → 15 of 89
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leave | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 38 of 95, unchanged |
| Workforce management sui | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 33 of 78, unchanged |
| 360 feedback | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 46 of 73, unchanged |
| HRIS and HCM platforms | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 47 of 66, unchanged |
| People analytics | 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 33 → 97 of 114 |
| Workforce scheduling | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 95 of 108, 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 Sage HR 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 Sage HR 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 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 | 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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative8 labelsNone
Budget-constrained4 labels1
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.
“Sage HR is the best fit for HR teams that need auditable leave approvals tied to PTO policy enforcement” Muse Glimmer 30B · Leave · comparative prompt · alternative
“SageHR — Simple & Affordable” Kimi K2 · Workforce management sui · budget 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.
“these platforms offer clean designs and low costs but focus on standard KPIs. They typically lack the flexibility” Qwen 3.7 Flash · People analytics · negative prompt · soft negative
“Enterprise Pitfalls: Complex setup (e.g., Sage HR)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Workforce scheduling · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Sage HR, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sage HR was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Sage HR, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sage HR 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 Sage HR. 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 19 of the 19 answers that named Sage HR and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com10
forbes.com9
firsthr.app8
guideflow.com7
personio.com7
technologyadvice.com5
traqq.com5
workhuman.com5
worldmetrics.org5
betterworks.com4
No domain is on file for Sage HR, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Sage HR
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Sage HR; a claim can dispute any of them.
SageHR 2
Follow Sage HR
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
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Claim this page
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 Sage HR'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 Sage HR, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Sage HR by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Sage HR 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 Sage HR, 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.