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Index Vendors › Leapsome · September 2026 Edition
13 categories · Ranked

Leapsome

255Judge labels
8First choices
44Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
13Categories
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 Performance management for small business buyers
Rank 7 of 54 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 5% of its 20 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Leapsome 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
Goals and OKRsPerformance and talent management4%7 of 545%20accepted challenger
Performance managementPerformance and talent management2%8 of 606%31accepted challenger
360 feedbackPerformance and talent management0%16 of 773%31accepted challenger
Employee engagement surveysOnboarding and employee experience0%13 of 770%13accepted challenger
Succession planningPerformance and talent management0%21 of 990%12accepted challenger
People analyticsWorkforce planning and analytics0%27 of 9925%8under 10 labels · led by HiBob at 15%
HR AI assistantsOnboarding and employee experience0%31 of 1190%4under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%
Leave and absence managementCore HR and payroll0%31 of 890%4under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 28%
Coaching platformsLearning and development0%72 of 1160%1under 10 labels · led by Growthspace at 26%
Employee onboardingOnboarding and employee experience0%40 of 1040%1under 10 labels · led by BambooHR at 29%
HRIS and HCM platformsCore HR and payroll0%22 of 460%1under 10 labels · led by Rippling at 22%
Internal talent marketplacePerformance and talent management0%54 of 1290%1under 10 labels · led by Fuel50 at 26%
Skills intelligencePerformance and talent management0%59 of 1620%1under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Leapsome 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 Leapsome across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.506208
GPT-5.4 mini04004
Gemini 3.5 Flash1162019
Perplexity Sonar04217
Grok 4.1 Fast083011
Mistral Small13509
DeepSeek V4 Flash1116220
Llama 4 Maverick026210
Qwen 3.7 Flash02305
Kimi K2064010
GLM 4.7 FlashX0124016
MiniMax M2.514319

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
Direct51 labels2
Paraphrase48 labels2
Comparative59 labelsNone
Budget-constrained15 labels2
Scale-constrained38 labels2
Negative44 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative255 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 10 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.

“For a mid-sized B2B company, Leapsome is often the most recommended for its balance of features, ease of use, and scalability.” Mistral Small · Goals and OKRs · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“or Leapsome (analytics embedded with engagement) that offer pre-built connectors without needing a data engineer” DeepSeek V4 Flash · People analytics · negative prompt · first choice
“Leaders in this category typically include Lattice, Culture Amp, 15Five, Leapsome, and PerformYard.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Performance management · scale prompt · first choice
“Primary Recommendation: Leapsome” MiniMax M2.5 · Goals and OKRs · 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.

“Enterprise-heavy suites when you're a small/mid company (e.g., Culture Amp, Lattice, Leapsome, 15Five)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · 360 feedback · negative prompt · soft negative
“caution is advised if you need specialized people analytics or large-enterprise workforce modeling” Perplexity Sonar · People analytics · negative prompt · soft negative
“HR-suite "goals modules" (Lattice, Leapsome, ...) ... Risky if you want dedicated OKR tracking” MiniMax M2.5 · Goals and OKRs · negative prompt · soft negative
“Leapsome: has a real admin learning curve and thinner native integrations than peers.” Llama 4 Maverick · Performance management · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Leapsome, over the 255 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Leapsome was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Lattice199 of 25556Not in the top three
15Five123 of 2558Not in the top three
Culture Amp102 of 25517Not in the top three
BambooHR76 of 2557Not in the top three
Betterworks73 of 25513Not in the top three
Workday59 of 2554Not in the top three
PerformYard50 of 2553Not in the top three
Teamflect47 of 2550Not in the top three
Spidergap42 of 2558Not in the top three
Rippling39 of 2553Not 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 Leapsome. 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 216 of the 255 answers that named Leapsome and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

betterworks.com86
peoplemanagingpeople.com79
workhuman.com60
forbes.com51
feedbackpulse.com50
guideflow.com49
learn.g2.com48
okrstool.com47
engagedly.com46
selectsoftwarereviews.com45

561 of the 561 domain citations in answers naming Leapsome came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Leapsome

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Leapsome; a claim can dispute any of them.
Lattice/Leapsome 1
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