13 categories · RankedWorkday
Workday is an enterprise platform for HR, Finance, and IT teams · workday.com ↗
Leads at enterprise. Thin evidence at small business: nine labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
BambooHR is first at 47%.
Rippling is first at 28%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first. Next is Rippling at 22%.
Why models recommend it
“Choose Workday for a large enterprise with complex structures, global compliance, and extensive reporting requirements.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Need a unified HCM + Finance system of record and are 500+ or planning global: Workday, UKG Pro, Ceridian Dayforce”Muse Glimmer 30B · Direct question · alternative
“ADP, Workday, Oracle, Dayforce are the go‑to for large enterprises with complex compliance needs.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
“Choose Workday for large organizations needing extensive configuration and enterprise integration.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Recently named in a massive class-action lawsuit in California, Workday's AI screening tools are accused of systematically weeding out Black and older job applicants.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“What to Avoid Workday — While powerful, it's architected for enterprise (1,000+ employees)”Kimi K2 · Direct question · warning
“Avoid overly enterprise-heavy options like Workday unless you're nearing 1,000+ employees.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
“High cost and complexity — often overkill for small-to-mid companies.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Workday, over the 411 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 224 | 40 | View → | |
| 142 | 12 | View → | |
| 105 | 0 | View → | |
| 102 | 2 | View → | |
| 97 | 14 | View → | |
| 93 | 3 | View → | |
| 86 | 2 | View → | |
| 75 | 0 | View → | |
| 70 | 6 | View → | |
| 52 | 22 | View → |
What the models named instead of Workday →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Workday's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- HR, Finance, and IT
- Customers named
- 7-Eleven, BetterUp, Medtronic, Cognizant, Jabil, NetApp, Chipotle, Great Wolf Lodge
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 352 of the 411 answers that named Workday and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
712 of the 712 domain citations in answers naming Workday 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 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case study | 2,489 | 0 | 2026-02-26 | ||
| Blog | 1,125 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 117 | 3 | 2026-07-30 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 84 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 50 | 0 | 2025-06-18 | ||
| Comparison | 46 | 1 | 2026-07-02 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 43 | 0 | 2026-06-23 | ||
| Conference or event | 18 | 0 | 2026-06-22 | ||
| Template or tool | 16 | 2 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| News or press | 12 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Create audit readiness checklist template or tool
- 2026-08-31Create audit readiness checklist template or tool
- 2026-07-30Future work podcast helen tupper squiggly careers podcast or video
- 2026-07-29Future work podcast copy paste economy podcast or video
- 2026-07-29Future work podcast copy paste economy podcast or video
- 2026-07-02Lawless ai vs true transformation comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page workday.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.