Every category where a model named Vantage Circle 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
Recognition and rewards	Onboarding and employee experience	2%	10 of 55	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Bonusly at 22%
Employee wellbeing and mental health	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	52 of 99	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wellable at 30%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	1	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	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

Direct6 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labels1

Comparative12 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 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.

“the best employee rewards program software for a mid-sized B2B company is Vantage Circle” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Recognition and rewards · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Start with Workhuman, Nectar, Achievers, Vantage Circle, and Bonusly as they consistently rank high for mid-market B2B.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Recognition and rewards · direct prompt · alternative

“a strong mid-market option for repeatable rewards campaigns and controlled redemptions” Perplexity Sonar · Recognition and rewards · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“positioned around engagement, rewards, and activity-based wellness” GPT-5.4 mini · Employee wellbeing · comparative 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Vantage Circle, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vantage Circle was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Achievers17 of 256Not in the top three

Awardco16 of 250Not in the top three

Workhuman15 of 259Not in the top three

Motivosity13 of 251Not in the top three

Bonusly13 of 250Not in the top three

Kudos12 of 250Not in the top three

Nectar11 of 252Not in the top three

O.C. Tanner Culture Cloud8 of 251Not in the top three

WorkTango7 of 250Not in the top three

Bucketlist Rewards4 of 250Not 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 Vantage Circle. 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 24 of the 25 answers that named Vantage Circle and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

tremendous.com14

achievers.com13

gartner.com12

selectsoftwarereviews.com10

crewhu.com9

g2.com9

peoplemanagingpeople.com9

workhuman.com8

awardco.com7

bystadium.com7

Ninety-eight of the ninety-eight domain citations in answers naming Vantage Circle came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

tremendous.com/blog/best-employee-recognition-platforms14

gartner.com/reviews/market/employee-recognition-and-reward-systems11

crewhu.com/blog/employee-recognition-software9

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/employee-recognition-software8

achievers.com/blog/employee-recognition-platforms7

learn.g2.com/best-employee-recognition-software7

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-employee-recognition-platform7

workhuman.com/blog/employee-recognition-software7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Vantage Circle

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

Vantage Circle / Vantage Fit 1

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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 Vantage Circle'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 Vantage Circle, 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 vantagecircle.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.