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Employee engagement surveys · September 2026 Edition

Culture Amp vs 15Five

Ten of twelve models named Culture Amp first on the direct prompt; zero named 15Five. Both were named by all twelve models and Culture Amp carries 42 labels and 15Five 37, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Culture Amp

endorsed leader

Named in ten categories this edition.

15Five

accepted challenger

Named in eleven categories this edition.

First-choice share40%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate10%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#5A position in a field of 8; printed, not drawn.
Labels4237A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Culture Amp reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Lattice was named alongside these two in eleven of the twelve direct answers. Culture Amp vs Workleap Officevibe · Culture Amp vs FeedbackPulse · Culture Amp vs Lattice

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the employee engagement surveys page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Culture AmpFirst choices, of twelve models15Five
Direct100
Paraphrase93
Comparative30
Budget-constrained004 against Culture Amp
Scale-constrained20
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Culture Amp and 15Five were named in the same answer 161 times, of the 356 answers naming Culture Amp and the 368 naming 15Five. In those answers 15Five took the first choice thirteen times and Culture Amp thirty.

Every model, every framing

The seventy-two answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Culture Amp and 15Five stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
Culture Amp 15Five first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Culture Amp on the left and 15Five on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Culture Amp and 15Five stood in it.

Culture Amp first, 15Five an alternative

10 of 12 models15Five was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniCulture Amp alternatives: Qualtrics EmployeeXM, WorkTango
Gemini 3.5 FlashCulture Amp, Lattice alternatives: 15Five, Leapsome
Perplexity SonarCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five, Lattice, Workleap Officevibe
Grok 4.1 FastCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five, Lattice
Mistral SmallCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five, Lattice, Quantum Workplace, Workleap Officevibe
Llama 4 MaverickCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five, Lattice, Quantum Workplace
Qwen 3.7 FlashCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five, Lattice, Workleap Officevibe
Kimi K2Culture Amp alternatives: Lattice, Workleap Officevibe
GLM 4.7 FlashXCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five, Engagedly, Lattice, Leapsome, Quantum Workplace, Workvivo
MiniMax M2.5Culture Amp, Matter alternatives: 15Five, Lattice, ThriveSparrow

Neither was the first choice, one was named

2 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Lattice alternatives: 15Five, Culture Amp, Workleap Officevibe
DeepSeek V4 FlashLattice alternatives: 15Five, Culture Amp, Quantum Workplace

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
15Five leads by nine points.
15Five12%#3 of 8
Culture Amp2%#5 of 8
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Culture Amp leads at mid-market.
Culture Amp40%#1 of 8
15Five6%#5 of 8
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Culture Amp leads by thirty points.
Culture Amp30%#1 of 6
15Five0%#– of 6
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Culture Amp

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of six in this category shown.

“Avoid enterprise platforms like Culture Amp, Qualtrics, or Microsoft Viva Glint” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid enterprise like Culture Amp/Qualtrics ($10+/user, custom quotes).” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · hard negative
“If you want deep analytics, driver analysis, and rich benchmarks: Look at Culture Amp or Quantum Workplace. These are standard-setting platforms” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“One of the most popular standalone engagement platforms... Choose Culture Amp or Qualtrics if: You want hard data, industry benchmarks” Qwen 3.7 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you want a standalone, specialized employee-listening tool that helps your managers become better leaders, go with Culture Amp” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about 15Five

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.