accepted challengerNamed in twenty-five categories this edition.
accepted challengerNamed in fifteen categories this edition.
First-choice share8%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate22%7%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#8A position in a field of 15; printed, not drawn.
Labels6514A count; the two differ.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the HRIS and HCM platforms page.
By framing
How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
BambooHRFirst choices, of fourteen modelsDeel
Direct402 against BambooHR
Paraphrase001 against BambooHR
Comparative10
Budget-constrained014 against BambooHR
Scale-constrained002 against BambooHR
Negative005 against BambooHR · 1 against Deel
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, BambooHR and Deel were named in the same answer 173 times, of the 1234 answers naming BambooHR and the 534 naming Deel. In those answers Deel took the first choice four times and BambooHR thirty.
The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where BambooHR and Deel stood in it.
BambooHR first, Deel not the choice
4 of 14 modelsDeel was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Mistral SmallBambooHR, Rippling alternatives: HiBob, Zoho People
Kimi K2BambooHR, Rippling alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, HiBob, Paylocity
MiniMax M2.5BambooHR alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, HiBob, Paylocity, Rippling
Muse Glimmer 30BBambooHR alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, HiBob / Bob, Paycor, Paylocity, Rippling
Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.GPT-5.4 miniRippling alternatives: BambooHR, HiBob
xAIGrok 4.20HiBob, Rippling alternatives: BambooHR, Paylocity
DeepSeek V4 FlashRippling alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, BambooHR, HiBob, Paylocity
Qwen 3.7 FlashHiBob, Rippling alternatives: BambooHR, Deel, Gusto, Paylocity, Remote, UKG Pro, Zoho People
Z.AIGLM 4.7 FlashXRippling alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, BambooHR, HiBob, Paylocity
GPT-6 LunaRippling alternatives: BambooHR, HiBob
Neither was named
4 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
Gemini 3.5 FlashRippling alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, HiBob, Paylocity
Perplexity SonarRippling alternatives: HiBob, Paycom, Paylocity
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.