Small business▲+3Since September 2026: 21% → 24%, +3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
24%from 21% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 2 → 1 of 58
1 category · RankedVacation Tracker
86Judge labels
18First choices
18Negative labels
14 / 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.
Best standing
23% in Leave for small business buyers
Rank 3 of 95 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 21% of its 34 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Vacation Tracker →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business1 of 65
23%40 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market3 of 95
12%34 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise98 of 98
0%12 labels
criticized challenger
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 Vacation Tracker 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 | 12% | 3 of 95 | 21% | 34 | accepted challenger | ▼−1Since September 2026: 13% → 12%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Vacation Tracker held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Leave · by segment
Mid-market▼−1Since September 2026: 13% → 12%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
12%from 13% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 12 pointsRank 2 → 4 of 91
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 87 → 89 of 89
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leave | 13% | 12% | ▼−1Since September 2026: 13% → 12%, −1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 → 3 of 95 |
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 Vacation Tracker 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 Vacation Tracker 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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
Direct14 labels5
Paraphrase18 labels6
Comparative14 labels10not counted in share
Budget-constrained19 labels5
Scale-constrained5 labels2
Negative16 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative86 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 30 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.
“I'd shortlist Vacation Tracker as a standalone PTO tool—especially if your team works in Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Google Workspace” GPT-6 Luna · Leave · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“The Chat-Native & Frictionless Choice: Vacation Tracker ... Choose Vacation Tracker if your team uses Slack/Teams heavily” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Leave · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“My top pick for most limited-budget companies: Vacation Tracker for its free plan and simple pricing structure” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Leave · budget prompt · first choice
“The best leave management software for a mid-market B2B company is a dedicated tracker, such as Vacation Tracker” Llama 4 Maverick · Leave · direct 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.
“Criticized for its pricing model, which adds extra fees for "advanced features" that are typically included for free in other tools.” Mistral Small · Leave · negative prompt · hard negative
“"Nickel and diming" pricing model ... Verdict: Be cautious of hidden costs that inflate your total” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Leave · negative prompt · hard negative
“Specific Tool to Avoid: Vacation Tracker” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Leave · negative prompt · hard negative
“Affordable base but criticized for upcharging basics like leave limits or concurrency rules—features often free elsewhere” Grok 4.1 Fast · Leave · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Vacation Tracker, over the 86 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vacation Tracker was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Vacation Tracker, over the 86 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vacation Tracker 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 Vacation Tracker. 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 86 of the 86 answers that named Vacation Tracker and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com53
forbes.com49
employsome.com44
guideflow.com38
actiplans.com35
vacationtracker.ioYour site29
attendancebot.com28
firsthr.app25
leapsome.com24
g2.com21
317 of the 346 domain citations in answers naming Vacation Tracker came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
vacationtracker.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Vacation Tracker takes 12% of first choices and BambooHR takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
vacationtracker.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Vacation Tracker takes 12% of first choices and BambooHR takes 28%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “leave management tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “leave management software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,400 a month (“vacation tracker”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 49 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 30,775 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 10,379 · 412 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,944
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
12%
rank 3 of 95 in leave
Segment leader
28%
BambooHR
- First choices
- 18 across its categories
- Named in
- 86 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 86 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 vacationtracker.io
1,634
subdomains included
Content
642
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
11 · 14
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 458 | 15 | 2026-09-18 | Leave, Employee onboarding | |
| Glossary or explainer | 110 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 39 | 2 | 2026-07-06 | ||
| Case study | 19 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 13 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 2 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-18How to manage your teams holiday vacation requests blog
- 2026-09-18The history of pto episode 8 blog
- 2026-09-11The history of pto episode 7 blog
- 2026-09-04The history of pto episode 6 blog
- 2026-08-28The history of pto episode 5 blog
- 2026-08-18The history of pto episode 4 blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page vacationtracker.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. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow Vacation Tracker
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
Vacation Tracker is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Vacation Tracker is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Leave Management & PTO Software
- For
- small and mid-sized teams
- Price stated
- Plans from $2/user/month. vacationtracker.io/pricing
- Starting price
- 2 vacationtracker.io/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial, no credit card needed vacationtracker.io
- Integrations claimed
- 5 vacationtracker.io · 7000 vacationtracker.io/platform pages disagree
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type IIGDPR
- Hosting
- North AmericaEurope
- Customers named
- CrossrefHi AutoDrury DesignSharpLaunchGrowthOpsDynatraceEnactus CanadaNo Code
What Vacation Tracker's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: vacationtracker.io, vacationtracker.io/pricing, vacationtracker.io/security, vacationtracker.io/platform, vacationtracker.io/case-studies. 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 Vacation Tracker'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 Vacation Tracker, 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 Vacation Tracker by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Vacation Tracker 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 Vacation Tracker, 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 Vacation Tracker 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 Vacation Tracker is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideVacation Tracker is among the products AI models recommend first in Leave and absence management 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.