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Motivosity

101Judge labels
4First choices
11Negative 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
7% in Recognition and rewards for mid-market buyers
Rank 4 of 55 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 5% of its 39 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Motivosity 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 experience7%4 of 555%39accepted challenger
Employee wellbeing and mental healthOnboarding and employee experience0%25 of 990%3under 10 labels · led by Wellable at 30%
Employee engagement surveysOnboarding and employee experience0%31 of 770%1under 10 labels · led by Culture Amp at 40%
Flexible benefits and lifestyle spending accountsCompensation and total rewards0%41 of 760%1under 10 labels · led by Compt at 30%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Motivosity 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 Motivosity 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 mini11103
Gemini 3.5 Flash05005
Perplexity Sonar00202
Grok 4.1 Fast11226
Mistral Small10203
DeepSeek V4 Flash04206
Llama 4 Maverick02103
Qwen 3.7 Flash21104
Kimi K204105
GLM 4.7 FlashX01203
MiniMax M2.501102

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
Direct16 labels1
Paraphrase16 labels2
Comparative38 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained10 labels1
Scale-constrained12 labelsNone
Negative9 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative101 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 6 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.

“Motivosity: Often rated best for overall engagement and measuring impact through data.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Recognition and rewards · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you want one recommendation without more context: Motivosity.” GPT-5.4 mini · Recognition and rewards · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“1. Motivosity - Best for engagement & impact measurement.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recognition and rewards · comparative prompt · first choice
“Nectar and Motivosity are frequently cited as top choices” Mistral Small · Recognition and rewards · direct 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.

“Motivosity ($3,000 min.)—too pricey for small budgets” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recognition and rewards · budget prompt · hard negative
“Poor mobile app or navigation: Issues in Motivosity (hard to use)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recognition and rewards · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Motivosity, over the 101 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Motivosity was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Bonusly79 of 10126Not in the top three
Nectar59 of 1018Not in the top three
Awardco54 of 1016Not in the top three
Workhuman40 of 1019Not in the top three
Achievers39 of 1016Not in the top three
Kudos37 of 1011Not in the top three
Guusto32 of 1011Not in the top three
Assembly20 of 1012Not in the top three
O.C. Tanner Culture Cloud17 of 1013Not in the top three
WorkTango17 of 1010Not 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 Motivosity. 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 86 of the 101 answers that named Motivosity and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

selectsoftwarereviews.com58
workhuman.com54
achievers.com45
tremendous.com45
motivosity.comYour site37
peoplemanagingpeople.com37
g2.com34
gartner.com33
awardco.com29
crewhu.com26

361 of the 398 domain citations in answers naming Motivosity came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 Motivosity'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 Motivosity, 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 motivosity.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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