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Headspace

69Judge labels
4First choices
16Negative 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
6% in Employee wellbeing for small business buyers
Rank 8 of 99 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 24% of its 29 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In employee wellbeing · 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 Headspace 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
Employee wellbeing and mental healthOnboarding and employee experience2%8 of 9924%29accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Headspace 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 Headspace across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500213
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash00202
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast10214
Mistral Small00112
DeepSeek V4 Flash11103
Llama 4 Maverick00112
Qwen 3.7 Flash12014
Kimi K202114
GLM 4.7 FlashX00112
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Direct7 labels1
Paraphrase10 labels1
Comparative28 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained7 labels1
Scale-constrained4 labels1
Negative13 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative69 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 7 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.

“Headspace for Business is the best value if you only need to address mental wellness” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Employee wellbeing · budget prompt · first choice
“Headspace – Strong evidence base for meditation, though no major privacy scandals” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · first choice
“Choose based on goals: meditation (Headspace/Calm)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Employee wellbeing · comparative prompt · first choice
“The most recognized meditation brand, strong on stress reduction, sleep, and mindfulness content” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Employee wellbeing · comparative 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.

“Headspace collects a wide range of personal information including health data... shares user data with third-party platforms for targeted advertising” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · hard negative
“Examples include Calm, Happify, Headspace, and Moodfit.” Llama 4 Maverick · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · hard negative
“criticism for being "data-hungry" and failing to provide clinical robustness for serious conditions” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · soft negative
“Headspace (though it has improved transparency with a "My Data" hub)” Kimi K2 · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Headspace, over the 69 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Headspace was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Calm40 of 690Not in the top three
Wellable38 of 6910Not in the top three
Personify Health28 of 697Not in the top three
Wellhub26 of 690Not in the top three
Spring Health18 of 697Not in the top three
Unmind17 of 692Not in the top three
Vantage Fit16 of 694Not in the top three
Lyra Health15 of 697Not in the top three
Limeade15 of 692Not in the top three
Wellness36015 of 690Not 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 Headspace. 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 56 of the 69 answers that named Headspace and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com30
guideflow.com30
hrtechsaas.com26
gopivotsolutions.com24
peoplemanagingpeople.com23
vantagefit.io22
avidonhealth.com20
deskbreak.app16
firsthr.app15
nectarhr.com14

220 of the 220 domain citations in answers naming Headspace came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Headspace

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Headspace; a claim can dispute any of them.
Headspace for Work 8Headspace for Business 2Headspace (Headspace for Work) 1Headspace for Work / Calm Business 1
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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 Headspace'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 Headspace, 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 headspace.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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