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Qualtrics EmployeeXM

85Judge labels
11First choices
29Negative 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
23% in Employee engagement surv for enterprise buyers
Rank 46 of 77 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 38% of its 16 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In employee engagement surv · 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 Qualtrics EmployeeXM 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 engagement surveysOnboarding and employee experience0%46 of 7738%16criticized challenger
People analyticsWorkforce planning and analytics0%72 of 9940%5under 10 labels · led by HiBob at 15%
360 feedbackPerformance and talent management0%71 of 77100%1under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 40%
Frontline employee appsOnboarding and employee experience0%66 of 970%1under 10 labels · led by Connecteam at 56%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Qualtrics EmployeeXM 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 Qualtrics EmployeeXM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini02103
Gemini 3.5 Flash01023
Perplexity Sonar00112
Grok 4.1 Fast00112
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash01012
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash10214
Kimi K200022
GLM 4.7 FlashX01102
MiniMax M2.500112

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 labels4
Paraphrase17 labels6
Comparative19 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained14 labels1
Scale-constrained14 labelsNone
Negative5 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative85 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 14 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.

“Choose Culture Amp or Qualtrics if: You want hard data, industry benchmarks, and have a dedicated HR team” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Employee engagement surv · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you want deeper analytics, more sophisticated survey design, and an enterprise-grade experience platform, I’d lean Qualtrics.” GPT-5.4 mini · Employee engagement surv · direct prompt · alternative
“Best For: Organizations that want to link employee sentiment (surveys, feedback, 360 reviews) to business outcomes.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · People analytics · comparative prompt · alternative
“Qualtrics: best if you want a more advanced, enterprise-grade listening program with benchmarking” GPT-5.4 mini · Employee engagement surv · paraphrase 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.

“Avoid enterprise platforms like Culture Amp, Qualtrics, or Microsoft Viva Glint” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Employee engagement surv · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid enterprise like Culture Amp/Qualtrics ($10+/user, custom quotes).” Grok 4.1 Fast · Employee engagement surv · budget prompt · hard negative
“you don't have the budget or a dedicated "People Analytics" team to manage heavy, complex enterprise software like Qualtrics or Workday Peakon” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Employee engagement surv · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“High-end enterprise tools like Culture Amp or Qualtrics often require expensive annual contracts” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Employee engagement surv · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Qualtrics EmployeeXM, over the 85 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Qualtrics EmployeeXM was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Culture Amp66 of 8522Not in the top three
Workday Peakon Employee Voice36 of 855Not in the top three
Lattice36 of 852Not in the top three
15Five25 of 852Not in the top three
Microsoft Viva Glint24 of 852Not in the top three
Workleap Officevibe19 of 856Not in the top three
Leapsome17 of 850Not in the top three
CultureMonkey15 of 851Not in the top three
Betterworks12 of 853Not in the top three
Visier9 of 855Not 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 Qualtrics EmployeeXM. 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 67 of the 85 answers that named Qualtrics EmployeeXM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

feedbackpulse.com34
culturemonkey.io26
workhuman.com24
engagedly.com21
g2.com21
selectsoftwarereviews.com21
peoplemanagingpeople.com18
thrivesparrow.com18
capterra.com17
eletive.com17

217 of the 217 domain citations in answers naming Qualtrics EmployeeXM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Qualtrics EmployeeXM

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Qualtrics EmployeeXM; a claim can dispute any of them.
Qualtrics 11Qualtrics (EmployeeXM) 1Qualtrics (XM Platform) 1Qualtrics Employee Experience 1Qualtrics EmployeeXM / Workday Peakon 1Qualtrics XM for Employee Experience 1
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