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Bonusly

166Judge labels
37First choices
17Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
60% in Recognition and rewards for small business buyers
Rank 1 of 55 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 2% of its 48 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest 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 Bonusly 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 experience22%1 of 552%48accepted challenger
Employee engagement surveysOnboarding and employee experience0%14 of 770%8under 10 labels · led by Culture Amp at 40%
HR AI assistantsOnboarding and employee experience0%27 of 1190%6under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%
Compensation managementCompensation and total rewards0%93 of 1890%1under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Bonusly 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 Bonusly across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.504004
GPT-5.4 mini12003
Gemini 3.5 Flash15107
Perplexity Sonar10304
Grok 4.1 Fast04307
Mistral Small11114
DeepSeek V4 Flash22408
Llama 4 Maverick02002
Qwen 3.7 Flash05106
Kimi K221205
GLM 4.7 FlashX05207
MiniMax M2.513206

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
Direct27 labels14
Paraphrase24 labels11
Comparative41 labels8not counted in share
Budget-constrained38 labels10
Scale-constrained18 labels2
Negative18 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative166 labels in all, every segment counted; 37 of the 47 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.

“start with Matter (free or $1/user/month) or Bonusly (free plan available). Both are highly rated” Mistral Small · Recognition and rewards · budget prompt · first choice
“For most small companies with limited budgets, Bonusly offers the best balance” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recognition and rewards · budget prompt · first choice
“Bonusly — *Best Overall for High Adoption and B2B Tech Cultures*” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Recognition and rewards · direct prompt · first choice
“Top Recommendation: Bonusly (best overall for mid-sized B2B)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recognition and rewards · paraphrase 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.

“Desktop-focused, limited custom rewards, basic analytics, and required monthly point caps that can add unexpected costs.” Mistral Small · Recognition and rewards · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Bonusly, over the 166 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bonusly was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Awardco80 of 16610Not in the top three
Motivosity79 of 1664Not in the top three
Guusto56 of 1664Not in the top three
Workhuman53 of 16610Not in the top three
Achievers53 of 1668Not in the top three
Kudos52 of 1660Not in the top three
Assembly31 of 1662Not in the top three
O.C. Tanner Culture Cloud22 of 1664Not 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 Bonusly. 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 137 of the 166 answers that named Bonusly and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com91
workhuman.com84
tremendous.com65
achievers.com61
g2.com61
peoplemanagingpeople.com60
gartner.com46
awardco.com42
learn.g2.com37
crewhu.com34

581 of the 581 domain citations in answers naming Bonusly came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 Bonusly'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 Bonusly, 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 bonusly.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.