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6 categories · Ranked

Workhuman

113Judge labels
18First choices
20Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
6Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
34% in Recognition and rewards for enterprise buyers
Rank 9 of 55 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 27 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.
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 Workhuman 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 experience2%9 of 5522%27accepted challenger
People analyticsWorkforce planning and analytics0%36 of 990%4under 10 labels · led by HiBob at 15%
Employee engagement surveysOnboarding and employee experience0%21 of 770%3under 10 labels · led by Culture Amp at 40%
Performance managementPerformance and talent management0%37 of 600%2under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 41%
360 feedbackPerformance and talent management0%61 of 770%1under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 40%
Succession planningPerformance and talent management0%88 of 990%1under 10 labels · led by Lattice at 31%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Workhuman 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 Workhuman across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500202
GPT-5.4 mini02103
Gemini 3.5 Flash00011
Perplexity Sonar00314
Grok 4.1 Fast01113
Mistral Small01315
DeepSeek V4 Flash02024
Llama 4 Maverick00303
Qwen 3.7 Flash02002
Kimi K210304
GLM 4.7 FlashX11204
MiniMax M2.501203

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
Direct25 labels10
Paraphrase12 labels3
Comparative38 labels7not counted in share
Budget-constrained11 labels4
Scale-constrained14 labels1
Negative13 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative113 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 25 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.

“Pioneer of the category (25+ years), operates at 3× the scale of nearest competitor, offers the only ROI Guarantee in the industry” Kimi K2 · Recognition and rewards · comparative prompt · first choice
“Workhuman and Nectar are strong all-rounders with strong analytics and ease of use” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Recognition and rewards · direct prompt · first choice
“For Large Enterprises with HR Goals: Look for ROI analytics and HRIS integration (Workhuman, Motivosity)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Recognition and rewards · comparative prompt · alternative
“Known for AI-powered social recognition analytics and one of the largest global rewards marketplaces” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recognition and rewards · 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.

“exercise caution with Awardco / Achievers / Workhuman / Kudos on catalog quality, hidden module costs, and pricing opacity” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recognition and rewards · negative prompt · soft negative
“High setup and module costs ($25K–$100K+) and required annual contracts make it expensive for smaller organizations.” Mistral Small · Recognition and rewards · negative prompt · soft negative
“High/unclear pricing: Enterprise tools like Workhuman or Kudos require custom quotes” Grok 4.1 Fast · Recognition and rewards · negative prompt · soft negative
“Workhuman – stronger enterprise/analytics, but viable at upper mid-market” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Recognition and rewards · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Workhuman, over the 113 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workhuman was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Achievers67 of 11310Not in the top three
Awardco66 of 1139Not in the top three
Bonusly53 of 1134Not in the top three
Motivosity40 of 1134Not in the top three
Nectar37 of 1134Not in the top three
Kudos30 of 1130Not in the top three
O.C. Tanner Culture Cloud28 of 1133Not in the top three
Culture Amp22 of 1137Not in the top three
Guusto20 of 1130Not in the top three
Lattice20 of 1130Not 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 Workhuman. 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 101 of the 113 answers that named Workhuman and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

workhuman.comYour site72
achievers.com52
selectsoftwarereviews.com49
tremendous.com45
peoplemanagingpeople.com42
gartner.com39
g2.com38
awardco.com31
engagedly.com26
learn.g2.com26

348 of the 420 domain citations in answers naming Workhuman came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 workhuman.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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