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People analytics · September 2026 Edition

HiBob vs Culture Amp

Two of twelve models named HiBob first on the direct prompt; zero named Culture Amp. HiBob was named by twelve of the twelve models and Culture Amp by nine and both carry 22 labels, so the shares below are directly comparable.

HiBob

accepted challenger

Named in sixteen categories this edition.

Culture Amp

accepted challenger

Named in ten categories this edition.

First-choice share15%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate5%5%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#8A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels2222Equal, which is what makes the shares comparable.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, HiBob reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.ChartHop was named alongside these two in eight of the twelve direct answers. HiBob vs Crunchr · HiBob vs BambooHR · HiBob vs Visier

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 people analytics page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
HiBobFirst choices, of twelve modelsCulture Amp
Direct20
Paraphrase60
Comparative001 against HiBob
Budget-constrained01
Scale-constrained00
Negative001 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.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

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

HiBob first, Culture Amp an alternative

2 of 12 modelsCulture Amp was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5HiBob alternatives: Rippling, UKG People Analytics
Perplexity SonarCrunchr, HiBob alternatives: ChartHop, Culture Amp

Neither was the first choice, one was named

4 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 FlashKnoetic alternatives: ChartHop, Culture Amp, Illoominus, Paradox
Mistral SmallCrunchr alternatives: HiBob, Lattice
DeepSeek V4 FlashChartHop, Crunchr alternatives: Culture Amp, Lattice, Leapsome, Orgnostic
Qwen 3.7 FlashVisier alternatives: Culture Amp, HiBob, Looker, Tableau

Neither was named

6 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniVisier alternatives: ChartHop, Crunchr, Workday Peakon
Grok 4.1 FastCrunchr alternatives: ChartHop, Lattice
Llama 4 MaverickChartHop
Kimi K2Crunchr alternatives: ChartHop, Visier
GLM 4.7 FlashXCrunchr alternatives: BambooHR, ChartHop, Personio
MiniMax M2.5Visier alternatives: Lattice, Workday HCM

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 Amp3%#7 of 16
HiBob2%#9 of 16
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: HiBob leads at mid-market.
HiBob15%#1 of 12
Culture Amp2%#8 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
HiBob0%#– of 9
Culture Amp0%#8 of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about HiBob

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

“HiBob is designed for fast-growing mid-market companies (typically 50–2,000 employees) that want an all-in-one HRIS with embedded people analytics” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about Culture Amp

No label in this category carried a quote.

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.