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People analytics

Asked as “people analytics platform”, and as “HR analytics software”, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. 53 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
HiBob
Contested
15% of first choices, contested.
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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small businessBambooHR41%Clear leaderStanding →Mid-marketHiBob15%ContestedThis pageEnterpriseVisier65%Clear leaderStanding →

01The standing

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. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01HiBob15%5%22accepted challenger
02Crunchr13%3%29accepted challenger
03BambooHR13%19%26accepted challenger
04Visier11%44%48criticized challenger
05ChartHop8%10%29accepted challenger
06Lattice4%9%22accepted challenger
07Rippling4%6%17accepted challenger
08Culture Amp2%5%22accepted challenger
Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
12Tableau0%55%11criticized challenger
11Microsoft Power BI0%46%13criticized challenger
10Workday People Analytics0%43%21criticized challenger
09One Model0%33%21criticized challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Head to head
HiBob vs CrunchrHiBob vs BambooHRCrunchr vs BambooHR

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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01HiBob15%
02Crunchr13%
03BambooHR13%
04Visier11%
05ChartHop8%
06Lattice4%
07Rippling4%
08Culture Amp2%
09One Model0%
10Workday People Analytics0%
11Microsoft Power BI0%
12Tableau0%

02What they warned about

Three of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Visier
44%
21 of 48 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 5 hard negative
“Enterprise platforms like Visier offer custom enterprise pricing and implementation complexity that make them a poor fit for small to mid-market organizations.” Claude Haiku 4.5, direct prompt
Workday People Analytics
43%
9 of 21 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Facing multiple U.S. lawsuits ... alleging AI-driven job screening discriminates” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt
One Model
33%
7 of 21 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Platforms to Avoid in the Mid-Market ... **Visier** or **One Model** ... generally poor fits for the mid-market” Gemini 3.5 Flash, direct prompt
BambooHR
19%
5 of 26 labels negative · 4 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“avoid it if your requirement is *advanced people analytics*” Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

63 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 761 links across 220 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

hrbench.com
vendor site · HRBench27 answers · 30 citations · 9 models
personio.com
vendor site · Personio25 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
eletive.com
vendor site · Eletive24 answers · 24 citations · 10 models
thrivesparrow.com
vendor site · ThriveSparrow22 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
workhuman.com
vendor site · Workhuman22 answers · 22 citations · 8 models
peoplemanagingpeople.com
vendor site · People Managing People20 answers · 22 citations · 9 models
hr.university
17 answers · 18 citations · 8 models
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com
17 answers · 17 citations · 7 models
firsthr.app
vendor site · FirstHR15 answers · 15 citations · 6 models
selectsoftwarereviews.com
vendor site · Select Software Reviews15 answers · 15 citations · 10 models
leapsome.com
vendor site · Leapsome14 answers · 15 citations · 7 models
thoughtspot.com
vendor site · ThoughtSpot14 answers · 14 citations · 7 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

hrbench.com/blog/best-people-analytics-software
26 answers · 9 models
personio.com/hr-lexicon/hr-analytics-tools
25 answers · 9 models
eletive.com/blog/people-analytics-tools
24 answers · 10 models
workhuman.com/blog/people-analytics-software
22 answers · 8 models
thrivesparrow.com/blog/best-people-analytics-software
20 answers · 8 models
hr.university/tools/hr-analytics-software
17 answers · 8 models
peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-people-analytics-software
17 answers · 9 models
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tools/10-best-hr-analytics-tools-for-enter…
16 answers · 6 models
firsthr.app/compare/general/hr-analytics-software
15 answers · 6 models
selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/analytics-tools
15 answers · 10 models

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best people analytics platform for a mid-market B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which HR analytics software would you recommend to a mid-sized B2B company?”Comparative“What are the top people analytics platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best people analytics platform for a company with a limited budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 500 person company evaluating a people analytics platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which people analytics platforms should I avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5HiBob
Two alternativesRippling, UKG People Analytics
against: VisierHiBobHeld
Two alternativesLattice, Paycor
no first choicePeopleInsight
One alternativeCrunchr
no first choiceagainst: People Data Labs, Worksmart by Crossover
GPT-5.4 miniVisier
Three alternativesChartHop, Crunchr, Workday Peakon
VisierHeld
Three alternativesADP DataCloud, SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics, Workday People Analytics
Visier
Three alternativesChartHop, Orgvue, Workday People Analytics
against: HiBob, LatticePeoplelogic
Two alternativesBambooHR, PeopleInsight
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashKnoetic
Four alternativesChartHop, Culture Amp, Illoominus, Paradox
against: One Model, VisierChartHop, IlloominusChanged
Three alternativesCulture Amp, HiBob, Lattice
against: Microsoft Power BI, Tableauno first choice
Seven alternativesChartHop, Crunchr, Culture Amp, One Model, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, Visier, Workday People Analytics
Orgnostic
Seven alternativesBambooHR, Gusto, HiBob, Looker Studio, Microsoft Power BI, Rippling, TalentHR
against: ChartHop, VisierKnoetic
Six alternativesChartHop, Culture Amp, HiBob, Illoominus, Leapsome, Rippling
against: One Model, Visieragainst: Apploye, Hubstaff, Microsoft Power BI, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics, Tableau, Time Doctor, Visier, Workday People Analytics
Perplexity SonarCrunchr, HiBob
Two alternativesChartHop, Culture Amp
against: VisierHiBob, PaycorChanged
Two alternativesADP Workforce Now, Visier
Visier
Five alternativesChartHop, Crunchr, Culture Amp, One Model, Workday People Analytics
BambooHR, Google Sheets + Looker Studio
Three alternatives15Five, Factorial, Sage HR
no first choiceagainst: BambooHR, ChartHop, Crunchr, Leapsome, One Model, Oracle Fusion HCM Analytics, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, Visier, Workday Peakon, Workday People Analytics
Grok 4.1 FastCrunchr
Two alternativesChartHop, Lattice
against: BambooHR, VisierRipplingChanged
One alternativeHiBob
against: BambooHR, PaylocityVisier
Three alternativesChartHop, Crunchr, One Model
BambooHR
Four alternatives15Five, ChartHop, Google Sheets + Looker Studio, Zoho People
no first choiceagainst: Visieragainst: Eightfold AI, HireVue, Workday People Analytics
Mistral SmallCrunchr
Two alternativesHiBob, Lattice
no first choiceChangedVisier
Three alternativesCrunchr, Eletive, Workday People Analytics
BambooHR, Culture Amp
One alternativeDIY solutions using Google Sheets or Looker
no first choiceagainst: One Model, Oracle, SAP, Visier, Workday People Analytics
DeepSeek V4 FlashChartHop, Crunchr
Four alternativesCulture Amp, Lattice, Leapsome, Orgnostic
against: VisierHiBobChanged
Five alternativesADP Workforce Now, Culture Amp, Personio, Rippling, Visier
Visier
Four alternativesChartHop, Crunchr, One Model, Workday
15Five, BambooHR
Five alternativesCulture Amp, Factorial, Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Sage HR
against: ChartHop, Eightfold AI, Lattice, Visier, WorkdayChartHopagainst: Looker, Microsoft Power BI, Visieragainst: Humanyze, Oracle Fusion HCM Analytics, SAP SuccessFactors People Analytics, Visier, Workday People Analytics
Llama 4 MaverickChartHopHiBob, Lattice, PersonioChangedno first choiceGoogle Sheets + Looker
One alternativeFactorial
no first choiceagainst: BambooHR, Leapsome, Visier
Qwen 3.7 FlashVisier
Four alternativesCulture Amp, HiBob, Looker, Tableau
VisierHeld
Three alternativesChartHop, Klarity, OneSource
against: Microsoft Power BI, SAP, TableauVisier
Four alternativesEletive, Microsoft Power BI, One Model, ThoughtSpot
against: Workday People AnalyticsLattice
Three alternativesFactorial, Google Sheets + Looker Studio, Personio
against: One Model, Visier, Workday VantagePointCharted, Daxio, Trakstar, Visier
Two alternativesBambooHR, Rippling
against: Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, SAP SuccessFactorsagainst: ADP Insights, Culture Amp, Custom Tableau/PowerBI dashboards built entirely by internal IT, Microsoft Viva Glint, One Model, Oracle Fusion HCM Analytics, Visier, Workday People Analytics
Kimi K2Crunchr
Two alternativesChartHop, Visier
Crunchr, RipplingChanged
Two alternativesHiBob, Lattice
Visier
Eight alternativesAgile HR Analytics, ChartHop, Crunchr, Culture Amp, Lattice, Leapsome, One Model, Workday
against: Qualtrics EmployeeXM, RipplingBambooHR, PeopleHum
Four alternativesCulture Amp, Looker Studio, OrangeHRM, TalentHR
against: Visier, Workdayno first choiceagainst: ActivTrak, Eightfold AI, Hubstaff, InterGuard, SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics, Teramind, Visier, Workday People Analytics
GLM 4.7 FlashXCrunchr
Three alternativesBambooHR, ChartHop, Personio
against: One Model, VisierHiBobChanged
Five alternativesChartHop, Crunchr, Lattice, Personio, Rippling
Visier
Fourteen alternativesADP Workforce Now, BambooHR, ChartHop, Crunchr, Culture Amp, Eletive, Leapsome, One Model, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, Rippling, SAP SuccessFactors, ThoughtSpot, Workday People Analytics, Workday Prism Analytics
against: TableauBambooHR
Four alternativesGoogle Sheets, Looker Studio, OrangeHRM, Personio
no first choiceagainst: SAP SuccessFactors Workforce Analytics, Visier, Workday People Analytics
MiniMax M2.5Visier
Two alternativesLattice, Workday HCM
against: ADP DataCloud, BambooHR, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, TableauHiBobChanged
Two alternativesCrunchr, Rippling
against: WorkdayVisier
Six alternativesCrunchr, Culture Amp, Eletive, Lattice, One Model, Workday People Analytics
15Five, BambooHR
Three alternativesCulture Amp, Looker Studio, Microsoft Power BI
no first choiceagainst: Microsoft Power BI, Tableauagainst: Humanyze, Teramind
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:21yes97 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:01yes24 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:26yes2525 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 17:58yes208 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:19yes2916 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:27yes55 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:14yes1627 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:15yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:09no031 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:51yes1424 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:34yes2170 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:58no037 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:51yes98 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:04yes57 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:57yes1624 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:00yes207 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 21:25yes2815 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:57no01 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:12yes918 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:36yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:00no033 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:34yes920 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:07yes891 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:04yes511 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:38yes1313 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:26yes67 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:40yes1622 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:36yes2011 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:20yes3017 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:20yes57 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:09yes1219 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:44yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:43yes1228 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:23yes1459 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:19yes1544 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:34yes1937 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:35yes96 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:18yes36 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:24yes1921 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:34yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:29yes3317 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:02yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:08yes613 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:33yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:06yes525 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 17:54yes1036 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:45yes2181 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:19yes516 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:19no07 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:04no011 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 21:54yes1943 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:00yes207 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:37yes1715 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:46no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:15yes1520 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:41yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:11no030 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:47no051 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:44yes1472 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:46yes519 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:55yes189 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:20yes47 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:05yes2156 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:54yes1910 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:48yes3920 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:05yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:01yes2436 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:06yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:04yes1039 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:15yes2553 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:55yes2591 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:06yes1945 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
Glint (LinkedIn) read as Microsoft Viva Glint
Glint (Microsoft Viva) read as Microsoft Viva Glint
Glint (Microsoft) read as Microsoft Viva Glint
Lever read as LeverTRM
Oracle HCM read as Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Oracle HCM Cloud read as Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
Peakon read as Workday Peakon
Power BI read as Microsoft Power BI
Power BI Pro read as Microsoft Power BI
Qualtrics (EmployeeXM) read as Qualtrics EmployeeXM
SuccessFactors read as SAP SuccessFactors
Workday Human Capital Management read as Workday HCM
Unresolved, counted raw
ADP Insights
Charted
Custom Tableau/PowerBI dashboards built entirely by internal IT
DIY solutions using Google Sheets or Looker
DIY with HRIS exports
Hobasa
InterGuard
Klarity
OneSource
UKG People Analytics
Workday VantagePoint
Worksmart by Crossover
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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