Employee monitoring · RankedCleverControl
CleverControl is an employee monitoring product that provides computer activity monitoring · clevercontrol.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Thin evidence at mid-market: seven labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
ActivTrak is first at 39%.
ActivTrak is first at 47%.
Teramind is first at 27%.
Why models recommend it
“CleverControl at $5.30/computer/month which is marketed as "Best overall for small businesses"”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best for Small Business Value ... Affordable all-in-one monitoring with security features”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“marketed as a comprehensive solution for small businesses and field teams”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Among the most aggressive surveillance tools on the market ... border on espionage”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Applications such as StaffCop, Teramind, Hubstaff, CleverControl, and Time Doctor *include real-time activity tracking*”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as CleverControl, over the 26 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 4 | View → | |
| 24 | 7 | View → | |
| 20 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on CleverControl's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- businesses that need clear visibility into remote, hybrid, and office team activity
- Free plan or trial
- Try for free
- Certifications
- ISO 27001
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 26 of the 26 answers that named CleverControl and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-eight of the 120 domain citations in answers naming CleverControl came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 292 | 17 | 2026-09-13 | Employee monitoring | |
| Comparison | 37 | 2 | 2026-08-25 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 2 | 2026-08-20 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-13Insider threat indicators and response blog
- 2026-09-03Mouse jiggler detection guide blog
- 2026-09-02Effective methods of tracking browsing activities blog
- 2026-09-02Ai powered employee monitoring blog
- 2026-09-01Hard work hard feelings blog
- 2026-08-29How employees detect monitoring software blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page clevercontrol.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. Read October 5, 2026.