# Employee engagement surveys: what AI models recommend, September 2026

HR AI Recommendation Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "employee engagement survey platform" and as "employee pulse survey tool", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://hr-ai-index.com/experience/employee-engagement-surveys/

**Standing:** Culture Amp leads with 40% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 52 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Culture Amp | 40% | 10% | 42 |
| 2 | Workleap Officevibe | 12% | 0% | 31 |
| 3 | FeedbackPulse | 12% | 0% | 14 |
| 4 | Lattice | 10% | 3% | 36 |
| 5 | 15Five | 6% | 0% | 37 |
| 6 | Leapsome | 0% | 0% | 13 |
| 7 | Qualtrics EmployeeXM | 0% | 38% | 16 |
| 8 | Workday Peakon Employee Voice | 0% | 30% | 10 |

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Lattice; alternatives 15Five, Culture Amp, Workleap Officevibe
- GPT-5.4 mini: Culture Amp; alternatives Qualtrics EmployeeXM, WorkTango
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Culture Amp, Lattice; alternatives 15Five, Leapsome
- Perplexity Sonar: Culture Amp; alternatives 15Five, Lattice, Workleap Officevibe
- Grok 4.1 Fast: Culture Amp; alternatives 15Five, Lattice
- Mistral Small: Culture Amp; alternatives 15Five, Lattice, Quantum Workplace, Workleap Officevibe
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Lattice; alternatives 15Five, Culture Amp, Quantum Workplace
- Llama 4 Maverick: Culture Amp; alternatives 15Five, Lattice, Quantum Workplace
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Culture Amp; alternatives 15Five, Lattice, Workleap Officevibe
- Kimi K2: Culture Amp; alternatives Lattice, Workleap Officevibe
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Culture Amp; alternatives 15Five, Engagedly, Lattice, Leapsome
- MiniMax M2.5: Culture Amp, Matter; alternatives 15Five, Lattice, ThriveSparrow

## Sources the answers cite

61 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- feedbackpulse.com: 33 answers, 67 citations
- culturemonkey.io: 21 answers, 37 citations
- thrivesparrow.com: 20 answers, 25 citations
- engagedly.com: 17 answers, 19 citations
- apollotechnical.com: 14 answers, 15 citations
- selectsoftwarereviews.com: 14 answers, 14 citations
- thehappinessindex.com: 11 answers, 15 citations
- qualaroo.com: 11 answers, 11 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://feedbackpulse.com/resources/best-employee-survey-software (27 answers)
- https://engagedly.com/blog/best-employee-engagement-survey-softwares (17 answers)
- https://thrivesparrow.com/blog/best-employee-engagement-software (15 answers)
- https://selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/best-employee-engagement-software (14 answers)
- https://apollotechnical.com/best-employee-engagement-survey-vendors-for-mid-market-hr-teams (11 answers)
- https://culturemonkey.io/employee-engagement/pulse-survey-tools (11 answers)
- https://contactmonkey.com/blog/pulse-survey-tool (9 answers)
- https://thehappinessindex.com/blog/best-employee-engagement-platforms (9 answers)
- https://qualaroo.com/blog/employee-pulse-survey-tools (8 answers)
- https://questionpro.com/blog/employee-pulse-survey-tool (8 answers)

## Warned against

- Qualtrics EmployeeXM: 6 of 16 labels negative. "Avoid enterprise platforms like Culture Amp, Qualtrics, or Microsoft Viva Glint" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Culture Amp: 4 of 42 labels negative. "Avoid enterprise platforms like Culture Amp, Qualtrics, or Microsoft Viva Glint" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Google Forms: 3 of 8 labels negative. "You have outgrown basic, manual forms (like Google Forms)" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, scale prompt)
- Qualtrics XM: 3 of 4 labels negative. "Why You Should Avoid Enterprise Giants (Qualtrics, Workday Peakon, Perceptyx)" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, direct prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://hr-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://hr-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as HR AI Recommendation Index, September 2026 Edition, hr-ai-index.com.