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Employee giving and volunteering · October 2026 Edition

Millie vs Deed

Four of fourteen models named Millie first on the direct prompt; zero named Deed. Millie was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Deed by eight and Millie carries 33 labels and Deed 16, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Millie

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Deed

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share22%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate3%12%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#8A position in a field of 10; printed, not drawn.
Labels3316A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Millie 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 Selflessly · Millie vs Uncommon Giving · Millie 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.
MillieFirst choices, of fourteen modelsDeed
Direct40
Paraphrase61
Comparative00
Budget-constrained20
Scale-constrained10
Negative111 against Millie · 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, Millie and Deed were named in the same answer seventeen times, of the 85 answers naming Millie and the 38 naming Deed. In those answers Deed took the first choice one time and Millie two.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Millie and Deed stood in it.
ModelDirectMIDEParaphraseMIDEComparativeMIDEBudget-constrainedMIDEScale-constrainedMIDENegativeMIDE
Claude Haiku 4.5MIMIDEMIDE
GPT-5.4 miniMIDE
Gemini 3.5 FlashMIDEMIMIDEDEMIDE
Perplexity SonarMIDEMIDE
Grok 4.1 FastMIMI
Mistral SmallMIMIMI
DeepSeek V4 FlashMIMIMI
Llama 4 MaverickMIDE
Qwen 3.7 FlashMIMI
Kimi K2MIMIDEMIDE
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5MIMIMI
GPT-6 LunaMIMIMI
Muse Glimmer 30BMIDE
MI MillieDE DeedMI first choiceMI named as an alternativeMI argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Millie on the left and Deed on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Millie first, Deed not the choice

4 of 14 modelsDeed was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Perplexity SonarMillie alternatives: Percent Pledge, Uncommon Giving
Grok 4.1 FastMillie alternatives: Goodera, Selflessly, Uncommon Giving
DeepSeek V4 FlashGroundswell, Millie alternatives: Bright Funds, OnHand, Selflessly, Uncommon Giving
Kimi K2Groundswell, Millie alternatives: Alaya, OnHand, YourCause

Neither was the first choice, one was named

4 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
MiniMax M2.5Bright Funds, Uncommon Giving alternatives: Millie, OnHand
GPT-6 LunaSelflessly alternatives: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform, Millie, YourCause

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
Mistral SmallBright Funds alternatives: Uncommon Giving, VolunteerLocal
Llama 4 MaverickBright Funds alternatives: Guideflow, Uncommon Giving
Qwen 3.7 FlashBenevity Enterprise Impact Platform, Social Cues alternatives: Goodchange, Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
GLM 4.7 FlashXBright Funds alternatives: Uncommon Giving
Muse Glimmer 30BBright Funds, Uncommon Giving

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
Millie leads by fifteen points.
Millie17%#2 of 11
Deed2%#– of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Millie leads by twenty points.
Millie22%#1 of 10
Deed2%#8 of 10
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Millie0%#7 of 11
Deed0%#9 of 11
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Millie

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

“its volunteering component is relatively basic and may not meet the needs of organizations seeking robust volunteer management” Mistral Small · negative prompt · soft negative
“I'd suggest starting with Millie if you're already on Slack, as it's designed specifically for smaller businesses with cost in mind” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“look into modern, employee-experience-first platforms such as Deed, Groundswell, Uncommon Giving, or Millie” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · first choice
“If you want the single best default choice, I'd start with Millie for a mid-market B2B company” Perplexity Sonar · 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.