6 categories · RankedSling
Sling is an employee scheduling and shift planning tool for businesses with frontline and deskless workforces · getsling.com ↗
Strongest at mid-market. Thin evidence at enterprise: two labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Connecteam is first at 26%.
Deputy is first at 29%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
UKG Pro Workforce Management is first at 40%.
Why models recommend it
“Sling is likely your best bet—it offers the most comprehensive free plan combined with very affordable paid upgrades”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“If you're on a very tight budget, start with Sling or Homebase as both offer genuinely useful free plans”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“The best employee scheduling software for a company with a limited budget is Sling, which is a free option”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Often cited as the best "budget" option generally, Sling allows you to pay only for the modules you need.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“more capable than lightweight tools such as Sling, without immediately requiring an enterprise workforce-management platform”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · warning
“Good starter option (~$2–$4/user/month) but may lack depth in compliance/reporting for growing mid-sized firms.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Sling, over the 103 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 84 | 20 | Compare → | |
| 76 | 16 | Compare → | |
| 74 | 15 | Compare → | |
| 65 | 16 | Compare → | |
| 26 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 2 | View → | |
| 10 | 3 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Sling →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Sling's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- businesses
- Price stated
- For free
- Starting price
- Free
- Free plan or trial
- free
- Integrations
- 6
- Customers named
- Sunday in Brooklyn, Vessel NOLA, Expeditors, The Arches, ILoveKickboxing, Larry's II, The Musket Room, The Market Line
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 95 of the 103 answers that named Sling and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
299 of the 299 domain citations in answers naming Sling 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 403 | 7 | 2026-09-01 | Workforce scheduling, Time and attendance | |
| Comparison | 9 | 0 | 2026-03-18 | ||
| Template or tool | 4 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | 0 | 2025-01-15 | ||
| Case study | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-01Restaurant accounting blog
- 2026-08-31How To Deal With No Call, No Show Employees blog
- 2026-08-2117715 blog
- 2026-08-21New toast sling deactivation update blog
- 2026-08-01Areas of improvement for employees blog
- 2026-07-16Shift differential blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page getsling.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 September 29, 2026.