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WorkTango

27Judge labels
0First choices
5Negative labels
9 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.
Best standing
0% in Recognition and rewards for mid-market buyers
Rank 15 of 55 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 10 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 WorkTango 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 experience0%15 of 550%10accepted challenger
Employee engagement surveysOnboarding and employee experience0%52 of 7750%2under 10 labels · led by Culture Amp at 40%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for WorkTango 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 WorkTango 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 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash01203
Perplexity Sonar00101
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00101
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX00112
MiniMax M2.500101

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
Direct7 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative12 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative27 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.

“good if you want survey + recognition in one platform” GPT-5.4 mini · Employee engagement surv · direct prompt · alternative
“WorkTango is a powerful double-duty platform” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Recognition and rewards · direct prompt · alternative
“Best for Recognition + Surveys Combined” Kimi K2 · Recognition and rewards · direct 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.

“~$8,000/year (annual commitment)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Employee engagement surv · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as WorkTango, over the 27 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and WorkTango was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Bonusly20 of 273Not in the top three
Awardco19 of 271Not in the top three
Workhuman18 of 276Not in the top three
Motivosity17 of 270Not in the top three
Achievers15 of 272Not in the top three
Nectar15 of 270Not in the top three
Guusto10 of 270Not in the top three
Kudos10 of 270Not in the top three
Assembly9 of 270Not in the top three
O.C. Tanner Culture Cloud7 of 271Not 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 WorkTango. 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 21 of the 27 answers that named WorkTango and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

achievers.com12
workhuman.com12
g2.com11
selectsoftwarereviews.com11
tremendous.com11
gartner.com10
peoplemanagingpeople.com10
bystadium.com9
awardco.com6
crewhu.com6

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

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as WorkTango

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as WorkTango; a claim can dispute any of them.
Kazoo 1WorkTango (formerly Kazoo) 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 WorkTango'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 WorkTango, 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 worktango.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.

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