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7 categories · Ranked

Betterworks

240Judge labels

52First choices

37Negative labels

12 of 12Models named it

7Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

33% in Goals and OKRs for enterprise buyers

Rank 9 of 54 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger

0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 14 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.

Small business48 of 49

under the label threshold

In goals and okrs · 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 Betterworks 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Goals and OKRs	Performance and talent management	4%	9 of 54	14%	14	accepted challenger
Performance management	Performance and talent management	4%	7 of 60	10%	31	accepted challenger
360 feedback	Performance and talent management	2%	9 of 77	8%	13	accepted challenger
Employee engagement surveys	Onboarding and employee experience	2%	10 of 77	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Culture Amp at 40%
Succession planning	Performance and talent management	0%	26 of 99	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 31%
Coaching platforms	Learning and development	0%	64 of 116	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 26%
Compensation management	Compensation and total rewards	0%	92 of 189	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Betterworks 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 Betterworks across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	0	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	1	2	1	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	6	2	0	8
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	3	0	4
Mistral Small	1	1	2	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	6	0	1	7
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	4	0	6
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	3	1	1	6
Kimi K2	0	3	0	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	4	2	8
MiniMax M2.5	1	5	2	1	9

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

Direct46 labels15

Paraphrase46 labels21

Comparative52 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained27 labels9

Scale-constrained27 labels7

Negative42 labels5not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative240 labels in all, every segment counted; 52 of the 63 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.

“Betterworks and Culture Amp are top choices due to their advanced analytics, integration capabilities, and scalability.” Mistral Small · 360 feedback · direct prompt · first choice

“Best Overall for Mid-Market B2B Betterworks is a performance management system for mid-market and enterprise companies” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Goals and OKRs · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“The best performance management software for a mid-market B2B company is Lattice, HiBob HRIS, or Betterworks.” Llama 4 Maverick · Performance management · direct prompt · first choice

“| Betterworks | Purpose-built OKR governance | Calibration workflows, alignment trees, audit trails |” MiniMax M2.5 · Goals and OKRs · scale prompt · first choice

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.

“Betterworks | Extremely expensive, poor integration across multiple systems, unresponsive customer service” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Performance management · negative prompt · hard negative

“What to avoid / watch out for ... generally overkill” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Goals and OKRs · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“HR-suite "goals modules" (... Betterworks ...) ... Risky if you want dedicated OKR tracking” MiniMax M2.5 · Goals and OKRs · negative prompt · soft negative

“but typically priced higher and geared toward larger or more complex organizations” GLM 4.7 FlashX · 360 feedback · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Betterworks, over the 240 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Betterworks was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Lattice186 of 24030Not in the top three

15Five98 of 2404Not in the top three

Culture Amp95 of 24014Not in the top three

Leapsome73 of 2403Not in the top three

Workday64 of 24015Not in the top three

WorkBoard53 of 24013Not in the top three

Profit.co51 of 2408Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors45 of 2406Not in the top three

Spidergap39 of 2407Not in the top three

Quantive36 of 2401Not 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 Betterworks. 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 220 of the 240 answers that named Betterworks and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

betterworks.comYour site147

okrstool.com93

workhuman.com76

peoplemanagingpeople.com73

tability.io65

guideflow.com54

feedbackpulse.com53

teamflect.com51

selectsoftwarereviews.com50

worxmate.ai48

563 of the 710 domain citations in answers naming Betterworks came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

betterworks.com/magazine/best-360-degree-feedback-tools59

workhuman.com/blog/best-360-degree-feedback-software-tools45

nanoglobals.com/recommended/360-degree-feedback-tools44

okrstool.com/blog/performance-management-software40

feedbackpulse.com/resources/360-feedback-tools38

tability.io/odt/articles/best-okr-software-for-enterprise38

betterworks.com/magazine/best-performance-evaluation-software37

betterworks.com/magazine/best-performance-management-software37

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Betterworks

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Betterworks; a claim can dispute any of them.

BetterWorks 3

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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 Betterworks'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 Betterworks, 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 betterworks.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.