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People analytics · September 2026 Edition

Visier vs ChartHop

Three of twelve models named Visier first on the direct prompt; two named ChartHop. Visier was named by twelve of the twelve models and ChartHop by nine and Visier carries 48 labels and ChartHop 29, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Visier

criticized challenger

Named in eight categories this edition.

ChartHop

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

First-choice share11%8%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate44%10%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#5A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels4829A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Visier reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Crunchr was named alongside these two in seven of the twelve direct answers. HiBob vs Visier · HiBob vs ChartHop · Crunchr 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.
VisierFirst choices, of twelve modelsChartHop
Direct326 against Visier
Paraphrase21
Comparative90
Budget-constrained004 against Visier · 2 against ChartHop
Scale-constrained113 against Visier
Negative018 against Visier · 1 against ChartHop
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, Visier and ChartHop were named in the same answer 118 times, of the 255 answers naming Visier and the 341 naming ChartHop. In those answers ChartHop took the first choice twelve times and Visier twenty-seven.

Every model, every framing

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

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Visier and ChartHop stood in it.

Visier first, ChartHop an alternative

3 of 12 modelsChartHop was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-5.4 miniVisier alternatives: ChartHop, Crunchr, Workday Peakon
Qwen 3.7 FlashVisier alternatives: Culture Amp, HiBob, Looker, Tableau
MiniMax M2.5Visier alternatives: Lattice, Workday HCM

ChartHop first, Visier not the choice

2 of 12 modelsVisier was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
DeepSeek V4 FlashChartHop, Crunchr alternatives: Culture Amp, Lattice, Leapsome, Orgnostic
Llama 4 MaverickChartHop

Neither was the first choice, one was named

5 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
Perplexity SonarCrunchr, HiBob alternatives: ChartHop, Culture Amp
Grok 4.1 FastCrunchr alternatives: ChartHop, Lattice
Kimi K2Crunchr alternatives: ChartHop, Visier
GLM 4.7 FlashXCrunchr alternatives: BambooHR, ChartHop, Personio

Neither was named

2 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5HiBob alternatives: Rippling, UKG People Analytics
Mistral SmallCrunchr alternatives: HiBob, Lattice

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
ChartHop leads by two points.
ChartHop2%#10 of 16
Visier0%#16 of 16
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Visier leads at mid-market.
Visier11%#4 of 12
ChartHop8%#5 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Visier leads by fifty-six points.
Visier65%#1 of 9
ChartHop9%#3 of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Visier

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

“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 · 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 · hard negative
“Avoid enterprise tools. Visier, Workday, and Eightfold AI typically require 500\u20131,000+ employees” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“The category standard. Pre-built people-data model, deep metric library, 30M+ employee benchmarks, strong forecasting. Very powerful but complex.” Kimi K2 · comparative prompt · first choice
“| 1 | Visier | Large enterprises with complex, multi‑source workforce data | Deep workforce analytics, AI‑powered insights” GLM 4.7 FlashX · comparative prompt · first choice
“Market leader in people analytics, known for workforce planning, talent acquisition, and employee engagement.” Mistral Small · comparative prompt · first choice

What the models said about ChartHop

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

“avoid it if your main goal is engagement analytics, sentiment analysis, or performance management” Perplexity Sonar · negative prompt · hard negative
“*Warning:* While the entry cost is low, ChartHop is highly modular... which can quickly drive up the price.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · budget 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.