Small business=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 15 → 12 of 102
1 category · Named, not rankedSpiceworks
13Judge labels
3First choices
0Negative labels
8 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Spiceworks was named 6 times in HR help desk, where Zoho Desk led with 19%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business12 of 105
2%7 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market9 of 108
4%6 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In hr help desk · 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 Spiceworks 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR help desk and case management | Onboarding and employee experience | 4% | 9 of 108 | 0% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Zoho Desk at 19% | =heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Spiceworks held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · HR help desk · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 13 → 15 of 99
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR help desk | 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 → 9 of 108 |
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 Spiceworks 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 Spiceworks 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 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 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labels3
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.
“Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk — FREE ⭐ Best for Tightest Budgets” Kimi K2 · HR help desk · budget prompt · first choice
“Truly zero budget: Spiceworks or Featurebase free plan.” Muse Glimmer 30B · HR help desk · budget prompt · first choice
“Spiceworks is the lowest-cost option because it offers a completely free help desk ticketing system, though it is more basic” Perplexity Sonar · HR help desk · budget prompt · alternative
“Strong Free Alternative: Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk” Grok 4.1 Fast · HR help desk · 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Spiceworks, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spiceworks was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Spiceworks, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spiceworks 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 Spiceworks. 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 13 of the 13 answers that named Spiceworks and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
zendesk.com12
eesel.ai9
atlassian.com8
peoplemanagingpeople.com8
technologyadvice.com8
featurebase.app7
firsthr.app7
suptask.com7
clickup.com6
hiverhq.com6
Seventy-eight of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming Spiceworks came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
spiceworks.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Spiceworks takes 4% of first choices and Zoho Desk takes 19%.ShowHide
Search and answers
spiceworks.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Spiceworks takes 4% of first choices and Zoho Desk takes 19%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “hr help desk software”
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not in the top ten
Position for “hr service delivery tools”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 5,400 a month (“spiceworks”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 122 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 2,284,947 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 353,371 · 24,305 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 30,286
- 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
4%
rank 9 of 108 in HR help desk
Segment leader
19%
Zoho Desk
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 13 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 13 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 spiceworks.com
11,101
subdomains included
Content
363
counted in the table below
Documentation
9,810
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 175 | 0 | 2026-02-19 | ||
| Comparison | 86 | 4 | 2026-08-26 | ||
| Blog | 34 | 0 | 2026-06-08 | ||
| Report or ebook | 29 | 0 | 2025-12-10 | ||
| Conference or event | 17 | 0 | 2026-05-18 | ||
| Template or tool | 10 | 0 | 2009-02-24 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 6 | 0 | 2009-02-27 | ||
| News or press | 6 | 0 | 2018-05-03 |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page spiceworks.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.
Names read as Spiceworks
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Spiceworks; a claim can dispute any of them.
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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.
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The company
Spiceworks is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Spiceworks is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Everything IT - Community, Insights, Research and Tools
- For
- IT
- Price stated
- free spiceworks.com
- Starting price
- Free spiceworks.com/free-cloud-help-desk-software/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Get free access to IT Community, news, insights, research and tools. spiceworks.com
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Spiceworks's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: spiceworks.com, spiceworks.com/free-cloud-help-desk-software/pricing, spiceworks.com/./security. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Spiceworks'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 Spiceworks, 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 Spiceworks by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Spiceworks 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 Spiceworks, 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.