accepted challengerNamed in nineteen categories this edition.
accepted challengerNamed in twenty-eight categories this edition.
First-choice share28%4%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate11%6%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#5A position in a field of 13; printed, not drawn.
Labels3617A count; the two differ.
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 succession planning page.
By framing
How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
LatticeFirst choices, of fourteen modelsBambooHR
Direct32
Paraphrase110
Comparative001 against BambooHR
Budget-constrained002 against Lattice
Scale-constrained20
Negative002 against Lattice
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, Lattice and BambooHR were named in the same answer 161 times, of the 712 answers naming Lattice and the 1165 naming BambooHR. In those answers BambooHR took the first choice thirty-three times and Lattice twenty-five.
The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Lattice and BambooHR stood in it.
Lattice first, BambooHR an alternative
3 of 14 modelsBambooHR was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Perplexity SonarEngagedly, Lattice alternatives: ADP Workforce Now, BambooHR, Dayforce, UKG Pro Succession Planning
Mistral SmallEngagedly, Lattice alternatives: SuccessionNow, TalentGuard Succession Planning
MiniMax M2.5Lattice alternatives: Cornerstone Succession, Deel HR, Qooper, TalentGuard Succession Planning
BambooHR first, Lattice an alternative
2 of 14 modelsLattice was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Kimi K2BambooHR, HiBob alternatives: Cornerstone Succession, Fuel50
Muse Glimmer 30BBambooHR, Engagedly alternatives: Lattice, Paylocity, SuccessionHR, UKG Pro Succession Planning
Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Claude Haiku 4.5Peoplebox alternatives: ChartHop, Engagedly, Lattice
Gemini 3.5 FlashSuccessionStack alternatives: HiBob, Lattice, PerformYard, TalentGuard Succession Planning
xAIGrok 4.1 FastEngagedly alternatives: BambooHR, Lattice, PerformYard, SuccessionNow
DeepSeek V4 FlashSuccessionHR alternatives: BambooHR, Cornerstone Galaxy, PeopleFluent Succession Management
Qwen 3.7 FlashEngagedly alternatives: BambooHR, Cornerstone Succession, Dayforce, SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development
Z.AIGLM 4.7 FlashXEngagedly alternatives: Cornerstone Succession, Dayforce, Lattice, PeopleFluent Succession Management, SuccessionNow, UKG Pro Succession Planning
Neither was named
3 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.GPT-5.4 miniHiBob alternatives: BambooHR add-ons / partner ecosystem, ClearCompany, Cornerstone Talent Management / Talent Experience, UKG Pro Succession Planning, Workday Succession Planning
Llama 4 MaverickSuccessionHR alternatives: Cornerstone, Engagedly
GPT-6 Luna15Five alternatives: Cornerstone Succession, SAP SuccessFactors Succession & Development, Workday Succession Planning
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.
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.