# Employee engagement surveys: what fourteen AI models recommend, and why, October 2026

HR AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Page: https://hr-ai-index.com/experience/employee-engagement-surveys/guide/

Fourteen AI models were asked for employee engagement survey platform six ways each, on behalf of a small, a mid-market and an enterprise B2B company: 252 answers, in which a judge labeled 58 products. Eight of them carry at least 10 labels and a first choice, and are ranked. This guide walks the top eight in the order the mid-market standing puts them, with what the models said for and against each, in their words. Culture Amp leads at 37% of first choices, and the standing is contested.

## At a glance

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Culture Amp | 37% | 17% | 42 |
| 2 | Workleap Officevibe | 13% | 6% | 35 |
| 3 | Leapsome | 12% | 6% | 17 |
| 4 | Lattice | 10% | 6% | 31 |
| 5 | 15Five Engage | 5% | 0% | 28 |
| 6 | FeedbackPulse | 5% | 0% | 10 |
| 7 | Microsoft Viva Glint | 2% | 0% | 10 |
| 8 | Qualtrics EmployeeXM | 2% | 36% | 11 |

## 1. Culture Amp

Culture Amp is #1 of 8 at 37% of first choices, 42 labels, negative rate 17%. By buyer: small business unranked; mid-market #1 of 8 at 37%; enterprise #1 of 6 at 29%.

- For: "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)
- For: "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)
- Against: "Avoid platforms like Culture Amp, Leapsome, or Qualtrics—they're excellent but priced for enterprise" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Against: "Avoid "Enterprise Trap" Tools Platforms like Culture Amp ... high minimum annual contracts" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt)

## 2. Workleap Officevibe

Workleap Officevibe is #2 of 8 at 13% of first choices, 35 labels, negative rate 6%. By buyer: small business #1 of 4 at 41%; mid-market #2 of 8 at 13%; enterprise unranked.

- For: "Workleap (Officevibe) at $5/user/month appears to be the best balance of features, affordability, and ease of use" (MiniMax M2.5, budget prompt)
- For: "Workleap Officevibe stands out as the best dedicated employee engagement platform for budget-conscious companies" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Against: "don't shortlist Officevibe based on older $5-per-person pricing articles: Workleap's current published plans start at $4,999/year" (GPT-6 Luna, budget prompt)
- Against: "a simpler, much more affordable alternative to Workleap (formerly Officevibe), which recently retired its popular free/cheap tier" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt)

## 3. Leapsome

Leapsome is #3 of 8 at 12% of first choices, 17 labels, negative rate 6%. By buyer: small business unranked; mid-market #3 of 8 at 12%; enterprise unranked.

- For: "1. Leapsome - Surveys, performance reviews, learning, goal management for growing companies seeking an all-in-one people platform." (Llama 4 Maverick, direct prompt)
- For: "Choose Lattice for a highly polished, US-centric market leader, or Leapsome if you have a global/European footprint" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, paraphrase prompt)
- Against: "Avoid platforms like Culture Amp, Leapsome, or Qualtrics" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)

## 4. Lattice

Lattice is #4 of 8 at 10% of first choices, 31 labels, negative rate 6%. By buyer: small business unranked; mid-market #4 of 8 at 10%; enterprise #5 of 6 at 4%.

- Against: "avoid platforms with $4,000+ annual minimums like Lattice/Culture Amp" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, budget prompt)
- Against: "Avoid "Enterprise Trap" Tools Platforms like Culture Amp, Lattice" (Qwen 3.7 Flash, budget prompt)

## 5. 15Five Engage

15Five Engage is #5 of 8 at 5% of first choices, 28 labels, negative rate 0%. By buyer: small business #3 of 4 at 14%; mid-market #5 of 8 at 5%; enterprise unranked.

- For: "I'd recommend starting with Leapsome or 15Five" (MiniMax M2.5, paraphrase prompt)
- For: "Best low-cost dedicated option: 15Five Engage." (GPT-6 Luna, budget prompt)

## 6. FeedbackPulse

FeedbackPulse is #6 of 8 at 5% of first choices, 10 labels, negative rate 0%. By buyer: small business #2 of 4 at 21%; mid-market #6 of 8 at 5%; enterprise unranked.

- For: "Go with FeedbackPulse. It offers the best mix of free tier, low cost per user, no seat minimum" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- For: "best overall affordable employee feedback and listening tool for 30 to 100 person teams" (Muse Glimmer 30B, budget prompt)

## 7. Microsoft Viva Glint

Microsoft Viva Glint is #7 of 8 at 2% of first choices, 10 labels, negative rate 0%. By buyer: small business unranked; mid-market #7 of 8 at 2%; enterprise #4 of 6 at 4%.

- For: "Culture Amp and Glint are the most popular for mid-market companies like yours" (Mistral Small, scale prompt)
- For: "The ideal enterprise choice for organizations heavily embedded in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, comparative prompt)

## 8. Qualtrics EmployeeXM

Qualtrics EmployeeXM is #8 of 8 at 2% of first choices, 11 labels, negative rate 36%. By buyer: small business unranked; mid-market #8 of 8 at 2%; enterprise #2 of 6 at 20%.

- For: "platforms like Culture Amp, Lattice, and Qualtrics often provide the best balance of features and support" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, scale prompt)
- For: "if you need deeper survey logic, more advanced research-style analytics, or you're closer to enterprise complexity" (GPT-5.4 mini, direct prompt)
- Against: "Avoid platforms like Culture Amp, Leapsome, or Qualtrics" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- Against: "you cannot afford to spend months on enterprise implementation (like Qualtrics)" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, direct prompt)

## Questions the record answers

**Which employee engagement survey platform do AI models name first most often?** Culture Amp, in 37% of first choices for a mid-market B2B company in the October 2026 Edition, from 42 labels. The standing is contested: the models did not settle on one product.

**Does the answer change with the size of the company?** Small business: Workleap Officevibe at 41%. Mid-market: Culture Amp at 37%. Enterprise: Culture Amp at 29%. Each standing is computed within its segment and never pooled.

**Which framing changes the answer?** The direct, paraphrase, budget and scale framings count toward share. The product named first differs by framing: direct Culture Amp; paraphrase Culture Amp; comparative BambooHR; budget-constrained Workleap Officevibe; scale-constrained Culture Amp. The table above has the counts.

**How stable is one answer?** Asked again with nothing changed, the models moved their own first choice 71% of the time across the repeat sample; This category was in the repeat sample: asked again with nothing changed, the leader's share moved -6 points and the leader held.

**Where do the answers come from?** Fourteen of the fourteen models return sources. Their 69 answers here cite 881 pages; the sites cited most are feedbackpulse.com, culturemonkey.io, betterworks.com. The category page lists them all.

**Can a vendor pay to be on this list?** No. A product is on the record because a model named it. A vendor can claim its page, propose corrections to the vendor table and be told when its standing moves; it cannot change a label, a share or a rank, and the publisher's conflicts are disclosed on the method page.

Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.