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Coaching platforms · September 2026 Edition

Boon Health vs Risely

Seven of twelve models named Boon Health first on the direct prompt; zero named Risely. Boon Health was named by eleven of the twelve models and Risely by nine and Boon Health carries 30 labels and Risely 18, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Boon Health

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Risely

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share22%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.

Negative rate7%11%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.

Rank in category#2#6A position in a field of 10; printed, not drawn.

Labels3018A count; the two differ.

The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Boon Health reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Torch was named alongside these two in twelve of the twelve direct answers. Growthspace vs Boon Health · Growthspace vs Risely · Boon Health vs Exec

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 coaching platforms page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.

Boon HealthFirst choices, of twelve modelsRisely

Direct70

Paraphrase001 against Boon Health · 1 against Risely

Comparative00

Budget-constrained52

Scale-constrained001 against Boon Health · 1 against Risely

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, Boon Health and Risely were named in the same answer forty-nine times, of the 81 answers naming Boon Health and the 60 naming Risely. In those answers Risely took the first choice seven times and Boon Health fourteen.

Every model, every framing

The seventy-two answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Boon Health and Risely stood in it.

Model	Direct	Paraphrase	Comparative	Budget-constrained	Scale-constrained	Negative
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

Boon Health

Risely

first choice

named as an alternative

argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Boon Health on the left and Risely on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Boon Health and Risely stood in it.

Boon Health first, Risely an alternative

7 of 12 modelsRisely was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.

Perplexity SonarBoon Health alternatives: BetterUp, CoachHub, Exec, Growthspace, Torch

DeepSeek V4 FlashBoon Health, Growthspace alternatives: CoachHub, Torch

Llama 4 MaverickBoon Health alternatives: Exec, Growthspace, Torch

Qwen 3.7 FlashBoon Health alternatives: Exec, Growthspace, Hone, Torch

Kimi K2Boon Health, Growthspace alternatives: CoachHub, Exec, Torch

GLM 4.7 FlashXBoon Health alternatives: CoachHub, Exec, Growthspace, Risely, Torch

MiniMax M2.5Boon Health, Growthspace alternatives: Exec, Lattice, Torch

Neither was the first choice, one was named

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

Gemini 3.5 FlashExec, Growthspace alternatives: Boon Health, Torch

Grok 4.1 FastExec alternatives: Boon Health, Growthspace, Torch

Mistral SmallExec, Growthspace alternatives: Boon Health, Torch

Neither was named

2 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.

Claude Haiku 4.5Torch alternatives: Avoma

GPT-5.4 miniLattice alternatives: BetterUp, CoachHub, Growthspace, Torch

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

Boon Health leads by eleven points.

Boon Health#1 of 9

Risely#2 of 9

The full small business standing →

Mid-marketThe figures above

Boon Health leads by nineteen points.

Boon Health#2 of 10

Risely#6 of 10

The full mid-market standing →

Enterprise

The order flips: Risely leads at enterprise.

Risely#3 of 11

Boon Health#9 of 11

The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Boon Health

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

“Under ~50 employees: Boon, Risely (lightweight, AI) ... one built for startups may not scale to your needs.provided” DeepSeek V4 Flash · scale prompt · soft negative

“it is less clearly the best fit for a typical mid-sized B2B buyer than Growthspace or CoachHub” Perplexity Sonar · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“1. Boon - a usage-based platform with a curated network of coaches and AI-driven change management and practice tools.” Llama 4 Maverick · direct prompt · first choice

“Boon is the strongest overall pick — its usage-based model means you only pay for coaching that actually happens” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice

“If you want a single platform covering all levels and coaching formats with flexible, usage-based pricing: Boon.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about Risely

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

“Under ~50 employees: Boon, Risely (lightweight, AI)... one built for startups may not scale to your needs.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · scale prompt · soft negative

“Valence/Risely are AI-only, which may be limiting” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“Choose Rocky.ai or Risely if you want to provide on-demand, automated individual coaching to employees at the lowest possible monthly rate.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · budget prompt · first choice

“For the tightest budgets: Start with Risely's free trial or Boon's usage-based model” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · first choice

“Offers public, tiered pricing ($59/user/month for individual...) It provides AI-augmented coaching at an accessible price point” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · alternative

Also compared

Growthspace vs Boon Health Growthspace vs Risely Boon Health vs Exec Boon Health vs Torch Boon Health vs CoachHub Boon Health vs BetterUp Exec vs Risely Torch vs Risely CoachHub vs Risely Risely vs BetterUp All twenty-one head-to-head pages and the full coaching platforms 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.