2 categories · RankedOnTheClock
OnTheClock is time tracking, employee time clock, employee scheduling and payroll software for small to mid-sized businesses · ontheclock.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“OnTheClock/Buddy Punch depending on whether you care more about knowledge-work tracking or straightforward clock-in/clock-out”GPT-5.4 mini · Paraphrase question · alternative
“If you have 10–30 distributed/hourly staff: Go with OnTheClock for flexible per-user billing”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best for Distributed/Field Teams ... offers robust geo-fencing and GPS tracking”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · alternative
“OnTheClock is a strong, simpler choice for SMB/mid-market teams”GPT-5.4 mini · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as OnTheClock, over the 16 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 6 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 5 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 2 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 2 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 2 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on OnTheClock's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- small to mid-sized businesses
- Price stated
- Flexible pricing. No contracts. Pay only for the employees who use OnTheClock each month.
- Starting price
- 4
- Free plan or trial
- Try It Free!
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 16 of the 16 answers that named OnTheClock and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-seven of the fifty domain citations in answers naming OnTheClock 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 262 | 12 | 2026-09-28 | Payroll software, Time and attendance | |
| Case study | 50 | undated | Background screening | ||
| Comparison | 37 | 6 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 19 | 0 | 2026-04-10 | ||
| Template or tool | 13 | 0 | 2025-10-31 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Most recent
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page ontheclock.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.