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Performance management · September 2026 Edition

Betterworks vs Culture Amp

One of twelve models named Betterworks first on the direct prompt; zero named Culture Amp. Betterworks was named by twelve of the twelve models and Culture Amp by eleven and Betterworks carries 31 labels and Culture Amp 21, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Betterworks

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

Culture Amp

accepted challenger

Named in ten categories this edition.

First-choice share4%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate10%10%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#6#8A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels3121A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Betterworks reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Lattice was named alongside these two in twelve of the twelve direct answers. Lattice vs Betterworks · Lattice vs Culture Amp · PerformYard vs Betterworks

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 performance management page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
BetterworksFirst choices, of twelve modelsCulture Amp
Direct10
Paraphrase10
Comparative00
Budget-constrained001 against Culture Amp
Scale-constrained01
Negative003 against Betterworks · 1 against Culture Amp
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, Betterworks and Culture Amp were named in the same answer ninety-five times, of the 240 answers naming Betterworks and the 356 naming Culture Amp. In those answers Culture Amp took the first choice fourteen times and Betterworks twenty-two.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Betterworks and Culture Amp stood in it.

Betterworks first, Culture Amp not the choice

1 of 12 modelsCulture Amp was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Llama 4 MaverickBetterworks, HiBob, Lattice

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.
Claude Haiku 4.5Lattice alternatives: 15Five, Betterworks, Culture Amp, HiBob, Leapsome, PerformYard
Gemini 3.5 FlashLattice alternatives: 15Five, Betterworks, HiBob, Leapsome
Perplexity SonarLattice alternatives: 15Five, Betterworks, HiBob, Leapsome
Mistral SmallLattice alternatives: 15Five, Culture Amp
DeepSeek V4 FlashLattice alternatives: 15Five, Betterworks, Culture Amp, Leapsome, PerformYard
Qwen 3.7 FlashLattice alternatives: 15Five, Betterworks, HiBob
Kimi K2Lattice alternatives: 15Five, Culture Amp, Leapsome, PerformYard
GLM 4.7 FlashXLattice alternatives: 15Five, Culture Amp, HiBob, Leapsome, Rippling

Neither was named

3 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniLattice alternatives: Mitratech Perform
Grok 4.1 FastLattice alternatives: 15Five, HiBob, Leapsome, Paylocity
MiniMax M2.5Lattice alternatives: Engagedly, Paylocity

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
Culture Amp leads by two points.
Culture Amp2%#– of 10
Betterworks0%#– of 10
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Betterworks leads at mid-market.
Betterworks4%#6 of 14
Culture Amp2%#8 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Betterworks leads by twenty-five points.
Betterworks25%#2 of 9
Culture Amp0%#9 of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Betterworks

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

“Betterworks | Extremely expensive, poor integration across multiple systems, unresponsive customer service” GLM 4.7 FlashX · negative prompt · hard negative
“The best performance management software for a mid-market B2B company is Lattice, HiBob HRIS, or Betterworks.” Llama 4 Maverick · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about Culture Amp

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

“Some users find its reporting and integration capabilities less robust compared to dedicated performance management systems.” Mistral Small · negative prompt · soft negative
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.