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Employee engagement surveys · September 2026 Edition

FeedbackPulse vs 15Five

Zero of twelve models named FeedbackPulse first on the direct prompt; zero named 15Five. FeedbackPulse was named by eleven of the twelve models and 15Five by twelve and FeedbackPulse carries 14 labels and 15Five 37, so the shares are not directly comparable.

FeedbackPulse

accepted challenger

Named in three categories this edition.

15Five

accepted challenger

Named in eleven categories this edition.

First-choice share12%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#5A position in a field of 8; printed, not drawn.
Labels1437A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, FeedbackPulse reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Culture Amp was named alongside these two in twelve of the twelve direct answers. Culture Amp vs FeedbackPulse · Culture Amp vs 15Five · Workleap Officevibe vs FeedbackPulse

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.
FeedbackPulseFirst choices, of twelve models15Five
Direct00
Paraphrase03
Comparative00
Budget-constrained60
Scale-constrained00
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.

Every model, every framing

The seventy-two answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where FeedbackPulse 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
FeedbackPulse 15Five first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, FeedbackPulse on the left and 15Five on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Neither was the first choice, one was named

10 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
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
DeepSeek V4 FlashLattice alternatives: 15Five, Culture Amp, Quantum Workplace
Llama 4 MaverickCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five, Lattice, Quantum Workplace
Qwen 3.7 FlashCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five, 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 named

2 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniCulture Amp alternatives: Qualtrics EmployeeXM, WorkTango
Kimi K2Culture Amp alternatives: Lattice, Workleap Officevibe

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
FeedbackPulse leads by twenty-one points.
FeedbackPulse33%#2 of 8
15Five12%#3 of 8
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
FeedbackPulse leads by six points.
FeedbackPulse12%#3 of 8
15Five6%#5 of 8
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
FeedbackPulse is not named for this buyer.
FeedbackPulse—not named
15Five0%#– of 6
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about FeedbackPulse

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

“the best overall pick in the results is FeedbackPulse if you want the strongest balance of affordability and useful engagement features” Perplexity Sonar · budget prompt · first choice
“The best employee engagement survey platform for a company with a limited budget is FeedbackPulse or Workleap for teams under 50 employees” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice
“Workleap (Officevibe) or FeedbackPulse are generally recommended over enterprise giants like Qualtrics” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about 15Five

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared
Culture Amp vs FeedbackPulseCulture Amp vs 15FiveWorkleap Officevibe vs FeedbackPulseWorkleap Officevibe vs 15FiveFeedbackPulse vs LatticeLattice vs 15FiveAll ten head-to-head pages and the full employee engagement surv standing

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.