Small business▲+13Since September 2026: 12% → 24%, +13 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
24%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 0 pointsRank 3 → 2 of 68
5 categories · RankedSling
84Judge labels
27First choices
3Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
24% in Workforce scheduling for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 108 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 19 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Sling →By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
Small business2 of 69
23%31 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market2 of 108
24%19 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise112 of 135
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In workforce scheduling · 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 Sling 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce scheduling | Core HR and payroll | 24% | 2 of 108 | 0% | 19 | accepted challenger | ▲+8Since September 2026: 15% → 23%, +8 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Frontline employee apps | Onboarding and employee experience | 2% | 9 of 106 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 49% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce management suites | Core HR and payroll | 2% | 16 of 78 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 17% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 29 of 98 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Time and attendance | Core HR and payroll | 0% | 48 of 86 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Clockify at 12% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Sling held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Workforce scheduling · by segment
Mid-market▲+8Since September 2026: 15% → 23%, +8 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
23%from 15% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 3 → 2 of 99
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 99 → 100 of 122
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workforce scheduling | 15% | 23% | ▲+8Since September 2026: 15% → 23%, +8 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 2 of 108 |
| Frontline employee apps | 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 7 → 9 of 106 |
| Workforce management sui | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 20 → 16 of 78 |
| Workforce planning | 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 36 → 29 of 98 |
| Time and attendance | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 48 of 86, 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 Sling 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 Sling 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 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct7 labels1
Paraphrase10 labels2
Comparative9 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained44 labels24
Scale-constrained9 labelsNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative84 labels in all, every segment counted; 27 of the 28 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.
“Sling – best small-budget free tier for scheduling … The author's preference is Sling "because it lets you create schedules for up to 30 users."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Workforce scheduling · budget prompt · first choice
“The best employee scheduling software for a company with a limited budget is Sling, which is free and has below-average costs on paid plans.” Llama 4 Maverick · Workforce scheduling · budget prompt · first choice
“Sling is the strongest overall pick because it is repeatedly identified as the best for small budgets” Perplexity Sonar · Workforce scheduling · budget prompt · first choice
“For most budget-conscious companies, starting with a free option like Sling or Connecteam is ideal” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Workforce scheduling · budget 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Sling, over the 84 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sling was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Sling, over the 84 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sling 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 Sling. 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 82 of the 84 answers that named Sling and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
joinhomebase.com53
forbes.com43
capterra.com37
peoplemanagingpeople.com36
connecteam.com35
zapier.com28
shifton.com26
softwareadvice.com25
guideflow.com23
firsthr.app21
327 of the 327 domain citations in answers naming Sling came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
getsling.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Sling takes 24% of first choices and Deputy takes 37%.ShowHide
Search and answers
getsling.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Sling takes 24% of first choices and Deputy takes 37%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “scheduling tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “employee scheduling software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 368,000 a month (“sling”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 51,638 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 363,426 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 21,198 · 1,534 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 6,078
- 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
24%
rank 2 of 108 in workforce scheduling
Segment leader
37%
Deputy
- First choices
- 27 across its categories
- Named in
- 84 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 82 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
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on getsling.com
789
subdomains included
Content
421
counted in the table below
Documentation
250
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 403 | 7 | 2026-09-01 | Workforce scheduling, Time and attendance | |
| Comparison | 9 | 0 | 2026-03-18 | ||
| Template or tool | 4 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | 0 | 2025-01-15 | ||
| Case study | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-01Restaurant accounting blog
- 2026-08-31How To Deal With No Call, No Show Employees blog
- 2026-08-2117715 blog
- 2026-08-21New toast sling deactivation update blog
- 2026-08-01Areas of improvement for employees blog
- 2026-07-16Shift differential blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page getsling.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. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Sling
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Sling; a claim can dispute any of them.
Sling by Toast 1
Follow Sling
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.
The company
Sling is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Sling is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Free Employee Scheduling And Shift Planning Made Easy
- For
- businesses
- Price stated
- For free getsling.com
- Starting price
- Free getsling.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- free getsling.com
- Integrations claimed
- 6 getsling.com
- Customers named
- Sunday in BrooklynVessel NOLAExpeditorsThe ArchesILoveKickboxingLarry's IIThe Musket RoomThe Market Line
- Not stated on the pages read
- Certifications, hosting
What Sling's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: getsling.com, getsling.com/pricing, getsling.com/product, getsling.com/customer-stories, getsling.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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 Sling'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 Sling, 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 Sling by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Sling 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 Sling, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Sling is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Sling is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideSling is among the products AI models recommend first in Workforce scheduling this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.