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Workforce scheduling · November 2026 Edition

Homebase vs Connecteam

Zero of fourteen models named Homebase first on the direct prompt; zero named Connecteam. Homebase was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Connecteam by thirteen and Homebase carries 23 labels and Connecteam 40, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Homebase

accepted challenger

Named in twelve categories this edition.

Connecteam

accepted challenger

Named in eighteen categories this edition.

First-choice share10%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate4%2%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#5A position in a field of 11; printed, not drawn.
Labels2340A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Homebase reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Deputy was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. Deputy vs Homebase · Deputy vs Connecteam · Sling vs Homebase

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 workforce scheduling page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
HomebaseFirst choices, of fourteen modelsConnecteam
Direct001 against Homebase
Paraphrase00
Comparative00
Budget-constrained51
Scale-constrained00
Negative001 against Connecteam
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, Homebase and Connecteam were named in the same answer 248 times, of the 382 answers naming Homebase and the 718 naming Connecteam. In those answers Connecteam took the first choice fifty-six times and Homebase sixty-seven.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Homebase and Connecteam stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Homebase Connecteam first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Homebase on the left and Connecteam on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Homebase and Connecteam stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
GPT-5.4 miniRippling, UKG Ready alternatives: Connecteam, Deputy
Gemini 3.5 FlashFloat alternatives: Connecteam, Deputy, Resource Guru, Rippling
Perplexity SonarDeputy alternatives: Connecteam, Planday, Sling, When I Work
Grok 4.20Deputy alternatives: Connecteam, Sling, When I Work
GLM 4.7 FlashXDeputy, When I Work alternatives: Connecteam, Planday, Sling
MiniMax M2.5Deputy, When I Work alternatives: Connecteam, QuickBooks Time, Sling
Muse Glimmer 30BWhen I Work alternatives: Connecteam, Deputy, Planday, Sling

Neither was named

7 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice
Mistral SmallWhen I Work alternatives: Deputy, Sling
DeepSeek V4 FlashWhen I Work alternatives: Deputy, Planday, Sling
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Qwen 3.7 FlashWhen I Work alternatives: Deputy, Sling, TimeForge
Kimi K2Deputy alternatives: Sling, When I Work
GPT-6 LunaDeputy alternatives: UKG Ready

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.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Connecteam leads by two points.
Connecteam26%#1 of 8
Homebase24%#2 of 8
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Homebase leads at mid-market.
Homebase10%#4 of 11
Connecteam2%#5 of 11
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Connecteam leads at enterprise.
Connecteam9%#4 of 13
Homebase0%#– of 13
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Homebase

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about Connecteam

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“Do not use employee shift-management software for general calendar scheduling” Qwen 3.7 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
Also compared
Deputy vs HomebaseDeputy vs ConnecteamSling vs HomebaseSling vs ConnecteamWhen I Work vs HomebaseWhen I Work vs ConnecteamAll ten head-to-head pages and the full workforce scheduling standing

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.