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Employee engagement surveys · October 2026 Edition

Culture Amp vs 15Five Engage

Eleven of fourteen models named Culture Amp first on the direct prompt; zero named 15Five Engage. Culture Amp was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and 15Five Engage by thirteen and Culture Amp carries 42 labels and 15Five Engage 28, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Culture Amp

endorsed leader

Named in thirteen categories this edition.

15Five Engage

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share37%5%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate17%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#5A position in a field of 8; printed, not drawn.
Labels4228A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Culture Amp reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Lattice was named alongside these two in ten of the fourteen direct answers. Culture Amp vs Workleap Officevibe · Culture Amp vs Leapsome · Culture Amp vs Lattice

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the employee engagement surveys page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Culture AmpFirst choices, of fourteen models15Five Engage
Direct1101 against Culture Amp
Paraphrase72
Comparative10
Budget-constrained016 against Culture Amp
Scale-constrained40
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Culture Amp and 15Five Engage were named in the same answer fifty-eight times, of the 385 answers naming Culture Amp and the 82 naming 15Five Engage. In those answers 15Five Engage took the first choice six times and Culture Amp nineteen.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Culture Amp and 15Five Engage stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Culture Amp 15Five Engage first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Culture Amp on the left and 15Five Engage on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Culture Amp and 15Five Engage stood in it.

Culture Amp first, 15Five Engage an alternative

11 of 14 models15Five Engage was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Claude Haiku 4.5Culture Amp alternatives: 15Five Engage, Lattice, Quantum Workplace
GPT-5.4 miniCulture Amp alternatives: Explorance Blue, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, WTW Engage, WorkTango
Gemini 3.5 FlashCulture Amp, Lattice alternatives: 15Five Engage, Leapsome, Teamflect
Perplexity SonarCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five Engage, CultureMonkey, Leapsome
Grok 4.1 FastCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five Engage, CultureMonkey, Lattice, Quantum Workplace
Mistral SmallCulture Amp, Workleap Officevibe alternatives: Eletive, Leapsome
DeepSeek V4 FlashCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five Engage, Lattice, Microsoft Viva Glint
GLM 4.7 FlashXCulture Amp, Lattice alternatives: Leapsome
MiniMax M2.5Culture Amp alternatives: 15Five Engage, Lattice, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
GPT-6 LunaCulture Amp alternatives: Lattice, Workleap Officevibe
Muse Glimmer 30BCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five Engage, Lattice, Microsoft Viva Glint, Quantum Workplace, TINYpulse, Workleap Officevibe

Neither was the first choice, one was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Qwen 3.7 FlashLattice alternatives: 15Five Engage
Kimi K2Lattice alternatives: 15Five Engage, Culture Amp, Quantum Workplace, Workleap Officevibe

Neither was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Llama 4 MaverickLeapsome alternatives: CultureMonkey, Workleap Officevibe

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
15Five Engage leads by fourteen points.
15Five Engage14%#3 of 9
Culture Amp0%#9 of 9
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
The order flips: Culture Amp leads at mid-market.
Culture Amp37%#1 of 8
15Five Engage5%#5 of 8
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Culture Amp leads by twenty-nine points.
Culture Amp29%#1 of 9
15Five Engage0%#9 of 9
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Culture Amp

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of six in this category shown.

“Avoid platforms like Culture Amp, Leapsome, or Qualtrics—they're excellent but priced for enterprise” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid "Enterprise Trap" Tools Platforms like Culture Amp ... high minimum annual contracts” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · hard negative
“avoid platforms with $4,000+ annual minimums like Lattice/Culture Amp” GLM 4.7 FlashX · budget prompt · hard negative
“the most-cited dedicated employee experience platform for this segment... Want best-in-class survey science + benchmarks and analytics: Culture Amp.” Muse Glimmer 30B · direct prompt · first choice
“The gold standard for people science and analytics. Highly robust, excellent benchmarking, but can be on the pricier/more complex side.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“Culture Amp and Officevibe are top choices due to their strong analytics, ease of use, and focus on actionable insights” Mistral Small · direct prompt · first choice

What the models said about 15Five Engage

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.

“I'd recommend starting with Leapsome or 15Five” MiniMax M2.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Best low-cost dedicated option: 15Five Engage.” GPT-6 Luna · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with Culture Amp or 15Five:” Kimi K2 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.