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Workday

81Judge labels
6First choices
21Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
7Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in ERP systems for enterprise buyers
Rank 15 of 96 in the mid-market standing
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 50% of its 2 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In financial consolidation · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Workday for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Financial consolidationAccounting and close2%15 of 9650%2under 10 labels · led by Prophix at 19%
ERP systemsAccounting and close0%9 of 700%12accepted challenger
Corporate performance managementPlanning and analysis0%31 of 950%3under 10 labels · led by Planful at 29%
Financial reporting and dashboardsPlanning and analysis0%45 of 1330%2under 10 labels · led by Sage Intacct at 27%
Strategic sourcingSpend and procurement0%109 of 12750%2under 10 labels · led by Precoro at 17%
Contractor paymentsSpend and procurement0%44 of 830%1under 10 labels · led by Deel at 27%
Lease accountingAccounting and close0%46 of 600%1under 10 labels · led by FinQuery at 36%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Workday yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Workday across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500303
GPT-5.4 mini10102
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00314
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash02103
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00112
Kimi K200101
GLM 4.7 FlashX01203
MiniMax M2.501102

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct12 labels1
Paraphrase13 labels4
Comparative25 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained11 labels1
Negative14 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative81 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 6 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“I'd say Workday is the best default choice for a mid-market B2B company” GPT-5.4 mini · Financial consolidation · direct prompt · first choice
“with SAP and Workday relevant if you anticipate scaling well beyond 500” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Financial reporting · scale prompt · alternative
“Best for: Larger mid-market companies focused on human capital management” MiniMax M2.5 · ERP systems · direct prompt · alternative
“Rippling and Workday model contractors alongside employees” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Contractor payments · scale prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Enterprise ERPs (SAP, Oracle NetSuite, Workday): ... overkill and too expensive” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Financial consolidation · budget prompt · hard negative
“Coupa or Workday if you use their ecosystem (good mid-market support but pricier)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Strategic sourcing · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workday, over the 81 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
SAP S/4HANA38 of 8112Not in the top three
Oracle NetSuite37 of 813Not in the top three
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP34 of 818Not in the top three
Microsoft Dynamics 36522 of 814Not in the top three
Acumatica20 of 814Not in the top three
Sage Intacct16 of 811Not in the top three
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations15 of 812Not in the top three
Odoo14 of 810Not in the top three
Infor CloudSuite13 of 810Not in the top three
Oracle12 of 810Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Workday. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 66 of the 81 answers that named Workday and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

erpresearch.com38
forbes.com19
learn.g2.com18
zapier.com17
netsuite.com16
gartner.com15
erp-pilot.com14
spendesk.com14
worldmetrics.org13
clefincode.com11

175 of the 175 domain citations in answers naming Workday came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Workday

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday; a claim can dispute any of them.
Adaptive Insights/Workday 1Workday (Adaptive Planning) 1Workday Lease Accounting 1
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Workday's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Workday, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at workday.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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