3 categories · RankedDeskTime
DeskTime is employee monitoring software that tracks time and productivity automatically and produces timesheets · desktime.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
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%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Teramind is first at 27%.
Why models recommend it
“The best employee monitoring tool for a company with a limited budget is DeskTime”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“DeskTime is the best affordable employee monitoring software for small teams”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Least invasive: actiTIME, ActivTrak, and DeskTime emphasize hours, activity patterns, and productivity trends”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“DeskTime – best for automatic project tracking and workforce analytics.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Include screen recording and idle detection. Less extreme but still risky if overused”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as DeskTime, over the 49 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 42 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 36 | 2 | View → | |
| 34 | 1 | View → | |
| 27 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 11 | 5 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of DeskTime →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on DeskTime's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- businesses
- Price stated
- Pro: $6.42 per user /month (Billed annually); Premium: $9.17 per user /month (Billed annually); Enterprise: Custom
- Starting price
- 6.42
- Free plan or trial
- 14 day free trial
- Integrations
- 7
- Certifications
- ISO 27001, GDPR, ISO 27701
- Hosting
- Germany, Ireland
- Customers named
- HasTech, GrabOn, Nexus Auto Transport, Skrivanek, Mapon, NtoN, Roadgames
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 48 of the 49 answers that named DeskTime and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
179 of the 179 domain citations in answers naming DeskTime 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 350 | 9 | 2026-09-23 | Time and attendance | |
| Case study | 20 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 16 | 0 | 2026-06-26 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 10 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 0 | 2024-04-11 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-23Incumplimiento del registro horario en espana blog
- 2026-09-21Time tracking fines spain blog
- 2026-09-18Workload management how to divide work to help your team succeed blog
- 2026-09-18Repartir la carga de trabajo sin quemar al equipo blog
- 2026-09-0410 best automatic time tracking software in 2026 blog
- 2026-09-04Los 10 mejores programas de seguimiento automatico del tiempo 2026 blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page desktime.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.