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Employee giving and volunteering · October 2026 Edition

Bright Funds vs Deed

Five of fourteen models named Bright Funds first on the direct prompt; zero named Deed. Bright Funds was named by ten of the fourteen models and Deed by eight and both carry 16 labels, so the shares below are directly comparable.

Bright Funds

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Deed

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share8%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate6%12%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#8A position in a field of 10; printed, not drawn.
Labels1616Equal, which is what makes the shares comparable.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Bright Funds reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Uncommon Giving was named alongside these two in ten of the fourteen direct answers. Millie vs Bright Funds · Millie vs Deed · Selflessly vs Bright Funds

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen 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 giving and volunteering page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Bright FundsFirst choices, of fourteen modelsDeed
Direct50
Paraphrase01
Comparative00
Budget-constrained00
Scale-constrained00
Negative011 against Bright Funds · 2 against Deed
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Bright Funds and Deed were named in the same answer seven times, of the 26 answers naming Bright Funds and the 38 naming Deed. In those answers Deed took the first choice one time and Bright Funds zero.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Bright Funds and Deed stood in it.
ModelDirectBFDEParaphraseBFDEComparativeBFDEBudget-constrainedBFDEScale-constrainedBFDENegativeBFDE
Claude Haiku 4.5BFDEDE
GPT-5.4 miniDE
Gemini 3.5 FlashBFDEBFDEBFBFDEBFDE
Perplexity SonarDEDE
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral SmallBF
DeepSeek V4 FlashBF
Llama 4 MaverickBFDE
Qwen 3.7 FlashBF
Kimi K2DEDE
GLM 4.7 FlashXBF
MiniMax M2.5BFBF
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30BBFDE
BF Bright FundsDE DeedBF first choiceBF named as an alternativeBF argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Bright Funds on the left and Deed on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Bright Funds and Deed stood in it.

Bright Funds first, Deed not the choice

5 of 14 modelsDeed was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Mistral SmallBright Funds alternatives: Uncommon Giving, VolunteerLocal
Llama 4 MaverickBright Funds alternatives: Guideflow, Uncommon Giving
GLM 4.7 FlashXBright Funds alternatives: Uncommon Giving
MiniMax M2.5Bright Funds, Uncommon Giving alternatives: Millie, OnHand
Muse Glimmer 30BBright Funds, Uncommon Giving

Neither was the first choice, one was named

3 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Uncommon Giving alternatives: Bright Funds, Groundswell, Millie
Gemini 3.5 FlashGroundswell alternatives: Bright Funds, Deed, Millie, Uncommon Giving
DeepSeek V4 FlashGroundswell, Millie alternatives: Bright Funds, OnHand, Selflessly, Uncommon Giving

Neither was named

6 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniBonterra alternatives: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform
Perplexity SonarMillie alternatives: Percent Pledge, Uncommon Giving
Grok 4.1 FastMillie alternatives: Goodera, Selflessly, Uncommon Giving
Qwen 3.7 FlashBenevity Enterprise Impact Platform, Social Cues alternatives: Goodchange, Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
Kimi K2Groundswell, Millie alternatives: Alaya, OnHand, YourCause
GPT-6 LunaSelflessly alternatives: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform, Millie, YourCause

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
Level: the same share of first choices.
Bright Funds2%#– of 11
Deed2%#– of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Bright Funds leads by seven points.
Bright Funds8%#4 of 10
Deed2%#8 of 10
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Bright Funds0%#– of 11
Deed0%#9 of 11
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Bright Funds

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

“Nonprofit Confusion & Onboarding Friction... Basic and Slow UI” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“Bright Funds stands out as the top choice due to its focus on impact, ease of use, and alignment with corporate social responsibility goals” Mistral Small · direct prompt · first choice
“The best employee giving and volunteering platform for a mid-market B2B company is Bright Funds” Llama 4 Maverick · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd suggest starting with Bright Funds or Uncommon Giving” MiniMax M2.5 · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about Deed

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

“Benevity, YourCause, and Deed are specifically called out for issues such as long distribution timelines, limited mobile support, or heavy administrative burden” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · hard negative
“the platform leaves a ton of administrative paperwork for HR staffers, and customer service can also be slow to respond” Claude Haiku 4.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“look into modern, employee-experience-first platforms such as Deed, Groundswell, Uncommon Giving, or Millie” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · first choice
“I'd generally recommend Deed or Millie” GPT-5.4 mini · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“enterprise social impact software platform designed to make workplace giving and volunteering engaging and easy for employees” Llama 4 Maverick · paraphrase prompt · alternative
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.