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Achievers

89Judge labels
20First choices
18Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
38% in Recognition and rewards for enterprise buyers
Rank 8 of 55 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 27 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.
In recognition and rewards · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Achievers for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Recognition and rewardsOnboarding and employee experience5%8 of 5522%27accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Achievers yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Achievers across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.502002
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar11103
Grok 4.1 Fast01124
Mistral Small00314
DeepSeek V4 Flash01113
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K200112
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
MiniMax M2.511103

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct21 labels6
Paraphrase15 labels7
Comparative19 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained11 labels6
Scale-constrained9 labels1
Negative14 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative89 labels in all, every segment counted; 20 of the 23 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“If I had to pick one default recommendation for a mid-sized B2B org, I'd choose Achievers” Perplexity Sonar · Recognition and rewards · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“### 1. Achievers (Best for Scaling Culture)” MiniMax M2.5 · Recognition and rewards · direct prompt · first choice
“Best for large-scale/global enterprise-style recognition: Workhuman or Achievers” GPT-5.4 mini · Recognition and rewards · direct prompt · alternative
“If you need deep customization or complex goal alignment, Achievers is a top choice.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Recognition and rewards · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Limited points/rewards budgets: Frequent complaints (e.g., in Motivosity, Kudos, Achievers)... custom reports delayed in others like Achievers.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recognition and rewards · negative prompt · soft negative
“Scaling penalties, add-on modules, and professional service fees can significantly increase costs.” Mistral Small · Recognition and rewards · negative prompt · soft negative
“Platforms like *O.C. Tanner* or *Achievers* require 1–3 months of custom implementation” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Recognition and rewards · comparative prompt · soft negative
“without the complexity and cost of enterprise solutions like Achievers or O.C. Tanner” Kimi K2 · Recognition and rewards · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Achievers, over the 89 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Achievers was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Workhuman67 of 8910Not in the top three
Awardco66 of 898Not in the top three
Bonusly53 of 898Not in the top three
Motivosity39 of 893Not in the top three
Nectar37 of 896Not in the top three
O.C. Tanner Culture Cloud32 of 893Not in the top three
Kudos26 of 890Not in the top three
Guusto17 of 890Not in the top three
Vantage Circle17 of 890Not in the top three
WorkTango15 of 890Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Achievers. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 79 of the 89 answers that named Achievers and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

achievers.comYour site60
tremendous.com52
workhuman.com49
selectsoftwarereviews.com47
awardco.com34
g2.com34
gartner.com34
crewhu.com30
peoplemanagingpeople.com29
bystadium.com24

333 of the 393 domain citations in answers naming Achievers came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Achievers

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Achievers; a claim can dispute any of them.
Achievers (by UKG) 1
Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Achievers's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Achievers, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at achievers.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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