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Index › Vendors › Talkspace · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Talkspace

16Judge labels

0First choices

9Negative labels

10 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.

Standing

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Talkspace was named 8 times in Employee wellbeing, where Wellable led with 30%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business22 of 78

under the label threshold

Mid-market98 of 99

under the label threshold

Enterprise49 of 66

under the label threshold

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 Talkspace 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
Employee wellbeing and mental health	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	98 of 99	88%	8	under 10 labels · led by Wellable at 30%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Negative	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	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“or Talkspace if your workforce is highly distributed and values asynchronous access” Kimi K2 · Employee wellbeing · 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.

“Mental health apps that lack variety in tools and activities, accurate information, and clear scientific knowledge. Examples include Talkspace.” Llama 4 Maverick · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · hard negative

“Mozilla found that Talkspace collected sensitive chat transcripts and shared data with third parties for advertising” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · hard negative

“Talkspace pushes users into doing a questionnaire without asking permission or laying out privacy policies first” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · hard negative

“Talkspace - Failed security standards, data sharing concerns” MiniMax M2.5 · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Talkspace, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Talkspace was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Headspace14 of 161Not in the top three

Calm11 of 160Not in the top three

BetterHelp8 of 160Not in the top three

Cerebral5 of 160Not in the top three

Wysa4 of 162Not in the top three

Wellhub4 of 160Not in the top three

Wellable3 of 163Not in the top three

PTSD Coach3 of 162Not in the top three

Personify Health3 of 161Not in the top three

YuMuuv3 of 161Not 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 Talkspace. 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 14 of the 16 answers that named Talkspace and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

firsthr.app5

gartner.com5

peoplemanagingpeople.com5

avidonhealth.com4

calmerry.com4

hrtechsaas.com4

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov4

centralbank.net3

consumer.ftc.gov3

corehealth.global3

Forty of the forty domain citations in answers naming Talkspace came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/employee-well-being-solutions5

calmerry.com/blog/workplace-wellbeing/best-mental-health-platforms-for-companies4

firsthr.app/compare/performance/corporate-wellness-software4

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/employee-wellness-platforms4

avidonhealth.com/hr-people-operations/best-wellness-platform-small-business3

avidonhealth.com/hr-people-operations/employee-wellness-programs-small-business3

centralbank.net/learning-center/security/emerging-trends/7-red-flags-of-wellness-scams-on-3

corehealth.global/blog/pitfalls-in-corporate-wellness-platforms3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Talkspace

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

Talkspace for 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 Talkspace'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 Talkspace, 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 talkspace.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.