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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Performance Pro

8Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

2Categories

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

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Performance Pro was named 3 times in Performance management and 1 other category, where Lattice led with 41%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market13 of 60

under the label threshold

Enterprise23 of 71

under the label threshold

In performance management · 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 Performance Pro 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
Performance management	Performance and talent management	2%	13 of 60	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 41%
360 feedback	Performance and talent management	0%	54 of 77	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 40%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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 AssessTEAM or Performance Pro—pure performance at rock-bottom prices” Grok 4.1 Fast · Performance management · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Performance Pro, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Performance Pro was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Betterworks4 of 81Not in the top three

15Five4 of 80Not in the top three

Lattice4 of 80Not in the top three

Workday3 of 82Not in the top three

Spidergap3 of 81Not in the top three

Express Evaluations3 of 80Not in the top three

PerformYard3 of 80Not in the top three

Deel HR2 of 80Not in the top three

HiBob2 of 80Not in the top three

Leapsome2 of 80Not 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 Performance Pro. 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 8 of the 8 answers that named Performance Pro and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com8

betterworks.com4

forbes.com4

learn.g2.com4

guideflow.com3

nanoglobals.com3

small-improvements.com3

capterra.com2

effy.ai2

eletive.com2

Thirty-five of the thirty-five domain citations in answers naming Performance Pro came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/performance-management-tools5

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-performance-management-software4

learn.g2.com/best-performance-management-software4

nanoglobals.com/recommended/360-degree-feedback-tools3

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-360-degree-feedback-software3

betterworks.com/magazine/best-performance-management-software2

eletive.com/blog/360-feedback-tools2

feedbackpulse.com/resources/360-feedback-tools2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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