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Planday

#11Best rank (mid-market)
11/14Models named it
1First choices
1Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inWorkforce scheduling #11 mid-marketWorkforce planning #28
What AI models recommend in workforce scheduling

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.

Why models recommend it

“Mid-range tools like Deputy, When I Work, and Planday typically cost between $2 to $5 per user per month.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Combine labor forecasting with scheduling, time, attendance, payroll, and operational execution”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“If you have multiple departments/locations with complex coordination: Consider Planday”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Direct question · alternative
“Frontline/hourly shift scheduling and forecasting? → Planday or Connecteam”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Planday, over the 40 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

What the models named instead of Planday →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

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

The sites and pages the answers that named Planday came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 38 of the 40 answers that named Planday and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com20
leadchangegroup.com19
capterra.com16
softwareadvice.com12
forbes.com10
guideflow.com10
resources.rework.com10
getapp.com9
disprz.ai8
selectsoftwarereviews.com8

No domain is on file for Planday, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Planday across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar03003
Grok 4.2001001
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash02103
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash00202
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX02103
MiniMax M2.501001
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B01203