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Employee engagement surveys · September 2026 Edition

Lattice vs 15Five

Three of twelve models named Lattice first on the direct prompt; zero named 15Five. Both were named by all twelve models and Lattice carries 36 labels and 15Five 37, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Lattice

accepted challenger

Named in nineteen categories this edition.

15Five

accepted challenger

Named in eleven categories this edition.

First-choice share10%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate3%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#5A position in a field of 8; printed, not drawn.
Labels3637A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Lattice 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 Lattice · Culture Amp vs 15Five · Workleap Officevibe 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.
LatticeFirst choices, of twelve models15Five
Direct30
Paraphrase23
Comparative00
Budget-constrained001 against Lattice
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.

Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Lattice and 15Five were named in the same answer 289 times, of the 672 answers naming Lattice and the 368 naming 15Five. In those answers 15Five took the first choice eighteen times and Lattice fifty-three.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

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

Lattice first, 15Five an alternative

3 of 12 models15Five was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Lattice alternatives: 15Five, Culture Amp, Workleap Officevibe
Gemini 3.5 FlashCulture Amp, Lattice alternatives: 15Five, Leapsome
DeepSeek V4 FlashLattice alternatives: 15Five, Culture Amp, Quantum Workplace

Neither was the first choice, one was named

8 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
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 named

1 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniCulture Amp alternatives: Qualtrics EmployeeXM, WorkTango

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 twelve points.
15Five12%#3 of 8
Lattice0%#7 of 8
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Lattice leads at mid-market.
Lattice10%#4 of 8
15Five6%#5 of 8
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Lattice leads by two points.
Lattice2%#6 of 6
15Five0%#– of 6
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Lattice

No label in this category carried a quote.

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.