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Index › HR › Onboarding and employee experience › HR AI assistants · September 2026 Edition

HR AI assistants

Asked as “AI assistant for HR teams”, and as “HR chatbot for employee questions”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 48 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
12%
Contested · ChatGPT 10%
12Workativ Assistant10ChatGPT10MeBeBot67others

12% of first choices, contested.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Workativ Assistant12%0%18accepted challenger
02ChatGPT Lab in the set10%27%11criticized challenger
03Leena AI6%8%37accepted challenger
04Lattice6%0%19accepted challenger
05HiBob6%0%10accepted challenger
06Moveworks4%29%21criticized challenger
07Ask BambooHR2%11%18accepted challenger
08Rippling2%7%14accepted challenger
Show the three products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
11Workday Illuminate0%50%18criticized challenger
09Paradox0%19%16accepted challenger
10Humand0%9%11accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.

ChatGPT is made by OpenAI, whose model GPT-5.4 mini is in the set. On the four share prompts that model made it the first choice zero times of 4; the other eleven models five times of 44. Lab treatment is defined on the method page; the row is marked, not excluded.

All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight products, each against each

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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01Workativ Assistant12%
02ChatGPT10%
03Leena AI6%
04Lattice6%
05HiBob6%
06Moveworks4%
07Ask BambooHR2%
08Rippling2%
09Paradox0%
10Humand0%
11Workday Illuminate0%

What they warned about

One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. 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, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Workday Illuminate
50%
9 of 18 labels negative · 9 of 12 models · 6 hard negative
“Workday's AI tools are the subject of the notable class action lawsuit Mobley v. Workday, where the plaintiff claims the company's AI tools automatically rejected him and other applicants” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
Eightfold AI
56%
5 of 9 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“Eightfold is currently being sued in a class-action lawsuit filed by job applicants who claim their automated screening functions as an "undisclosed consumer report."” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
HireVue
100%
4 of 4 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“HireVue, a video interview platform, historically used "facial analysis" to score candidates' traits... alleging the technology was deceptive and biased” Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt
Moveworks
29%
6 of 21 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Enterprise-focused with six-figure annual contracts; overkill for mid-sized companies” Kimi K2, paraphrase prompt

What they cite

Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

68 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 947 links across 290 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Moveworks26 answers · 32 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Workativ22 answers · 49 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Humand21 answers · 21 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Sana Labs20 answers · 22 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Peoplebox19 answers · 19 citations · 11 models
vendor site · AIHR18 answers · 19 citations · 8 models
16 answers · 16 citations · 8 models
15 answers · 15 citations · 8 models
14 answers · 17 citations · 7 models
14 answers · 14 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Rework13 answers · 16 citations · 6 models
vendor site · Gusto13 answers · 14 citations · 7 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “ai assistant for hr teams”, “best ai assistant for hr teams”, “hr ai assistants”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Workativ workativ.com
Workativ Assistant 12%
12%487021,110 company
MeBeBot mebebot.com10%3570036
ChatGPT10%124,000,000218,639
Leena leena.ai
Leena AI 6%
6%1331,300388,0610
Lattice lattice.com6%62590,50013,900122,123$1,328120
HiBob hibob.com6%35414,800154266,143$54120
Claude claude.com6%415,000,00053,2403,090,945$1,889120
Gusto gusto.com6%742673,00010,5601,629,483118
Moveworks moveworks.com4%888,10026754,64402
Effy effy.ai
Effy AI 4%
4%77140340,950 company

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 20 sites; 2 of them are among the sites the models cited here (moveworks.com, sanalabs.com). The first result for “ai assistant for hr teams” is shrm.org.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best AI assistant for HR teams for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which HR chatbot for employee questions would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top HR AI assistants and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best AI assistant for HR teams for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating an AI assistant for HR teams. What should we look at?”Negative“Which HR AI assistants should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Moveworks
Three alternativesLeapsome, Leena AI, Paycor AI Analytics Assistant
MeBeBotChanged
Two alternativesAsk BambooHR, Leena AI
no first choiceGusto, PeopleHR
Two alternativesGoogle Gemini, Zoho People
no first choiceagainst: HireVue, HiredScore AI, Sirius XM Radio, Workday Illuminate
GPT-5.4 miniAsk BambooHR
One alternativeWorkday Illuminate
Microsoft’s HR policy/self-service agent approachChanged
One alternativeWorkday HR Service Agent
against: ServiceNow AI Agents / Employee Service
Sana
Two alternativesDayforce AI Assistant / Dayforce AI Agents, UKG Bryte
against: Oracle Digital Assistant / Oracle AI for HCM, SAP Joule
AskTheChamp for HR, Microsoft Copilot Studio
One alternativeAsk BambooHR
against: Dynamics 365 Human Resources, Workday Illuminate
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashWorkativ Assistant
Seven alternativesAsk BambooHR, Juicebox, Leena AI, MeBeBot, Paradox, PeopleGPT, Rippling
against: Moveworks, ServiceNow HR Service Delivery
Leena AIChanged
Three alternativesAsk BambooHR, Risotto, Workativ Assistant
against: ServiceNow HR Service Delivery, Workday Assistant
Moveworks
Four alternativesEightfold AI, Humand, Leena AI, Paradox
ChatGPT, Claude, Google NotebookLM
Five alternativesAI HR Pilot, Ask BambooHR, PeopleHR, Risotto, Workativ Assistant
no first choiceagainst: Eightfold AI, HireVue, Workday Illuminate
Perplexity SonarMoveworks
Three alternativesLattice, Leena AI, Workativ Assistant
against: ChatGPT
Workativ AssistantChanged
Three alternativesCustomGPT.ai, Leena AI, MeBeBot
Leena AI
Five alternativesLattice, Moveworks, Paradox, ServiceNow HR Service Delivery, Windmill
ChatGPT, Claude
Two alternativesGusto, HRStak
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.20Rippling
Two alternativesAsk BambooHR, Lattice
against: ADP Workforce Now, Humand
MeBeBotChanged
Two alternativesLeena AI, Workativ Assistant
Paradox
Five alternativesHumand, Lattice, Leena AI, Moveworks, Rippling
ChatGPT
Five alternativesClaude, Effy AI, Google Gemini, Leena AI, Playroll Orbit
no first choiceagainst: Amazon’s Recruiting AI, Ask BambooHR, Eightfold AI, HireVue, Paradox, Workday Illuminate
Mistral SmallLeena AI, Workativ Assistant
Three alternativesHiBob, Lattice, Paycor AI Analytics Assistant
against: Moveworks, Workday Assistant
Capacity, Workativ AssistantChanged
One alternativeWotNot
no first choiceGusto
Three alternatives360Learning, Bonusly, Effy AI
no first choicenothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashHiBob
Four alternativesLattice, Leena AI, Paradox, Rippling
MeBeBotChanged
Two alternativesAsk BambooHR, Workativ Assistant
Leena AI, Moveworks
Six alternativesDarwinbox, Lattice, Leapsome, Rippling, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday Illuminate
ChatGPT, Claude, Gusto, HelpJet
Four alternativesLeena AI, Manatal, Playroll Orbit, Zoho Recruit
against: Moveworks
no first choiceagainst: Leena AI, Moveworks, ServiceNow HR Service Deliveryagainst: Amazon's (now-defunct) recruiting engine, Eightfold AI, Workday Illuminate
Llama 4 MaverickLattice
Four alternativesHiBob, Leena AI, Paycor AI Analytics Assistant, Windmill
WotNotChanged
One alternativeWorkativ Assistant
no first choiceEffy AI
Four alternatives360Learning, Bonusly, Heroic Knowledge Base, Leena AI
no first choiceagainst: Ask BambooHR, Paradox
Qwen 3.7 FlashHiBob
Three alternativesAsk BambooHR, Greenhouse, Lattice
Workativ AssistantChanged
Three alternativesCapacity, Talla, WotNot
against: Paradox, Simular Pro
Leena AI
Five alternativesHiBob, Humand, Kona, Paradox, Rippling
Orimon AI
Four alternativesChatGPT, Claude, Effy AI, Leena AI
no first choiceagainst: Amazon, Eightfold AI, Workday Illuminate
Kimi K2MeBeBot
Two alternativesLattice, Paradox
against: Leena AI, Moveworks
MeBeBotHeld
Two alternativesIntercom Fin, Workativ Assistant
against: Leena AI, Moveworks, ServiceNow HR Service Delivery
no first choice
Six alternativesLeena AI, MeBeBot, Moveworks, Paradox, Rippling, Workday Illuminate
ChatGPT, Kvistly
Five alternativesDianaHR, Factorial, Gusto, Leena AI, MeBeBot
no first choiceagainst: Eightfold AI, HireVue, Pymetrics, Workday Illuminate
GLM 4.7 FlashXLattice
Five alternativesAsk BambooHR, Greenhouse AI, Humand, Leena AI, Workativ Assistant
against: Rippling
Workativ AssistantChanged
Two alternativesHiOperator, Talla
Leena AI, Moveworks
Four alternativesDeel HR, Humand, Lattice, Paradox
against: ChatGPT
Playroll Orbit
Five alternativesAeroChat, ChatGPT, Claude, Factorial, Workativ Assistant
no first choiceagainst: Amazon, ChatGPT, Workday Illuminate
MiniMax M2.5HiBob, Lattice
Three alternativesHelpJet, Monday.com AI Agents, Paycor AI Analytics Assistant
Leena AIChanged
Four alternativesChatling, Moveworks, Workativ Assistant, peopleHum Phia
Wonderchat
Five alternativesHumand, Lattice, Leena AI, Paradox, SeekOut
Effy AI
Three alternatives360Learning, Bonusly, ChatGPT
no first choiceagainst: Workday Illuminate
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:11yes98 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:01yes37 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:54yes2244 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:48yes207 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 21:38yes2916 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:57yes54 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:00yes1718 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:26yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:41yes732 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:47yes1058 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:14yes2146 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:49yes514 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:14yes99 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:00yes37 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:52yes865 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:57yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 18:15yes3218 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:38yes108 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 19:41yes2149 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:58yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:47yes1123 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:28yes2532 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:45yes21191 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:03yes1330 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:20yes910 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:13yes511 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:58yes1156 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:25yes2010 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 21:44yes2816 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:14yes56 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:39yes1216 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:28yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:07yes519 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:35yes1634 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:12yes2868 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:35yes926 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:40yes98 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:42yes47 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 20:10yes2019 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:34yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 18:08yes3720 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:22yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:40yes911 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:37yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:57yes525 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:14yes1025 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:35yes1751 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:24yes516 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:43no07 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:03no010 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:07yes851 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:06yes208 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 18:21yes1813 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:30no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:16yes2024 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:01yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:45yes1045 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:28yes1042 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:14no09 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:51yes525 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:20yes1810 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:56yes78 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:51yes2422 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:21yes207 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 21:37yes3917 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:34yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:31yes2622 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:44yes95 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:17yes533 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:57yes2934 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:19yes24113 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:53yes1528 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
BambooHR read as Ask BambooHR
BambooHR ("Ask BambooHR") read as Ask BambooHR
BambooHR / Bamboo AI read as Ask BambooHR
BambooHR with Bamboo AI / Ask BambooHR read as Ask BambooHR
Deel AI read as Deel HR
Effy read as Effy AI
Eightfold read as Eightfold AI
Espressive read as Espressive Barista
Leena read as Leena AI
Paycor read as Paycor AI Analytics Assistant
SAP Joule for HR read as SAP Joule
Sana Labs read as Sana
ServiceNow read as ServiceNow HR Service Delivery
Workativ read as Workativ Assistant
Workday read as Workday Illuminate
Workday, Inc. read as Workday Illuminate
Unresolved, counted raw
Amazon's (now-defunct) recruiting engine
AskTheChamp for HR
Chatling
Dayforce AI Assistant / Dayforce AI Agents
Dynamics 365 Human Resources
HONO HR Assistant
HRTailor
HiOperator
HiredScore AI
Intercom Fin
Knowlix
Kona
Microsoft’s HR policy/self-service agent approach
Monday.com AI Agents
MyHRSVP / Leena AI
NavioHQ
Oracle Digital Assistant / Oracle AI for HCM
Orimon AI
ServiceNow AI Agents / Employee Service
Simular Pro
Sirius XM Radio
Workday Joule
peopleHum Phia
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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