# Employee engagement surveys for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, October 2026

HR AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "employee engagement survey platform" and as "employee pulse survey tool", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://hr-ai-index.com/experience/employee-engagement-surveys/enterprise/

**Standing:** Culture Amp leads with 29% of first choices; verdict contested. 51 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Culture Amp | 29% | 10% | 49 |
| 2 | Qualtrics EmployeeXM | 20% | 23% | 48 |
| 3 | Workday Peakon Employee Voice | 18% | 8% | 39 |
| 4 | Microsoft Viva Glint | 4% | 7% | 28 |
| 5 | Lattice | 4% | 24% | 25 |
| 6 | Betterworks | 4% | 0% | 10 |
| 7 | CultureMonkey | 0% | 0% | 13 |
| 8 | Leapsome | 0% | 23% | 13 |
| 9 | 15Five Engage | 0% | 33% | 15 |

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Qualtrics XM; alternatives CultureMonkey, Microsoft Viva Glint, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- GPT-5.4 mini: Workday Peakon Employee Voice; alternatives Lattice
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Culture Amp, Workday Peakon Employee Voice; alternatives Microsoft Viva Glint, Perceptyx, Qualtrics EmployeeXM
- Perplexity Sonar: Qualtrics EmployeeXM; alternatives Culture Amp, CultureMonkey, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- Grok 4.1 Fast: Qualtrics EmployeeXM; alternatives Culture Amp, Microsoft Viva Glint
- Mistral Small: Qualtrics EmployeeXM; alternatives Culture Amp, Microsoft Viva Glint
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Culture Amp, Qualtrics EmployeeXM; alternatives Betterworks, Microsoft Viva Glint, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- Llama 4 Maverick: Betterworks
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Qualtrics EmployeeXM; alternatives Culture Amp, CultureMonkey, Leapsome
- Kimi K2: Culture Amp, Qualtrics EmployeeXM; alternatives Lattice, Microsoft Viva Glint, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Culture Amp; alternatives Lattice, Microsoft Viva Glint, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- MiniMax M2.5: no first choice
- GPT-6 Luna: Culture Amp; alternatives Microsoft Viva Glint, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Qualtrics XM; alternatives Culture Amp, Workday Peakon Employee Voice

## Sources the answers cite

79 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- culturemonkey.io: 42 answers, 97 citations
- betterworks.com: 32 answers, 33 citations
- feedbackpulse.com: 29 answers, 37 citations
- capterra.com: 27 answers, 29 citations
- hrcloud.com: 23 answers, 27 citations
- workhuman.com: 20 answers, 22 citations
- matterapp.com: 17 answers, 28 citations
- thrivesparrow.com: 17 answers, 24 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://betterworks.com/magazine/best-employee-engagement-software (31 answers)
- https://capterra.com/resources/best-employee-engagement-software-reviews-analysis (24 answers)
- https://culturemonkey.io/guides/employee-engagement-survey-questions/employee-engagement-survey-vendors/top-employee-engagement-survey-vendors-to-choose-from (23 answers)
- https://culturemonkey.io/employee-engagement/employee-engagement-survey-tools (21 answers)
- https://workhuman.com/blog/employee-engagement-software (19 answers)
- https://darwinbox.com/blog/10-best-employee-engagement-tools-platforms-enterprises (16 answers)
- https://feedbackpulse.com/resources/best-employee-survey-software (16 answers)
- https://hrcloud.com/blog/best-employee-survey-platform (14 answers)
- https://sogolytics.com/learning-center/employee-experience/employee-engagement-survey-vendor (14 answers)
- https://formgrid.com/blog/employee-engagement-survey-tools (13 answers)

## Warned against

- Qualtrics EmployeeXM: 11 of 48 labels negative. ""The Trap to Avoid: Qualtrics EX ... it is generally not recommended if your primary goal is predictable, simplified TCO."" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- Lattice: 6 of 25 labels negative. "While predictable, Lattice's minimum contract floor may be a consideration for very large deployments." (Claude Haiku 4.5, budget prompt)
- 15Five Engage: 5 of 15 labels negative. "excellent, but they are highly modular. Ensure your contract explicitly defines what is included." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt)
- Culture Amp: 5 of 49 labels negative. ""Why You Should Avoid "Enterprise Giants" (e.g., Qualtrics, Culture Amp)"" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)

## Movement since September 2026

Floor: 13 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Culture Amp at 27%.

- CultureMonkey: 7% to 0%, −7. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 4 → 15 of 96.
- Culture Amp: 30% to 27%, −4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 1 of 96, unchanged.
- 15Five Engage: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 9 → 20 of 96.
- Lattice: 2% to 4%, +2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 8 → 5 of 96.
- Qualtrics EmployeeXM: 23% to 22%, −1. Inside the floor by 12 points · rank 2 of 96, unchanged.
- Workday Peakon Employee Voice: 21% to 20%, −1. Inside the floor by 12 points · rank 3 of 96, unchanged.
- Microsoft Viva Glint: 5% to 4%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 5 → 4 of 96.
- Leapsome: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 15 → 19 of 96.

## Record

- Method: https://hr-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://hr-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as HR AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, hr-ai-index.com.