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BetterHelp

23Judge labels
0First choices
15Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Employee wellbeing for mid-market buyers
Rank 110 of 111 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 61% of its 18 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of BetterHelp →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In employee wellbeing · 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 BetterHelp 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 rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Employee wellbeing and mental healthOnboarding and employee experience0%110 of 11161%18criticized challenger=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, BetterHelp held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.

Best category · Employee wellbeing · by segment

Small businessgoneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsNot ranked
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 96 → 105 of 106
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 61 → 59 of 62

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
Employee wellbeing0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 96 → 110 of 111

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated BetterHelp across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00011
Gemini 3.5 Flash00112
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast00112
Mistral Small00112
DeepSeek V4 Flash00011
Llama 4 Maverick00011
Qwen 3.7 Flash01012
Kimi K200011
GLM 4.7 FlashX01012
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna00011
Muse Glimmer 30B00011

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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative6 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative15 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative23 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.

“If you are suffering from a specific trauma or issue that requires talking, go to BetterHelp.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Employee wellbeing · comparative prompt · alternative
“BetterHelp/Grow Therapy are top-rated therapy services in reviews” Perplexity Sonar · Employee wellbeing · comparative prompt · alternative
“Professional therapy for anxiety/depression | BetterHelp” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Employee wellbeing · 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.

“The US Federal Trade Commission fined BetterHelp $7.8m after determining the company misled consumers and shared private information with third parties for advertising” Muse Glimmer 30B · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · hard negative
“here are some wellbeing platforms you should be cautious about or avoid: BetterHelp and Talkspace – ... failed to meet basic privacy and security standards” Mistral Small · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · hard negative
“exercise high caution or look for alternative solutions when considering the following platforms... the FTC fined BetterHelp $7.8 million” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · hard negative
“Platforms with Major Red Flags: - BetterHelp: FTC settlement in 2023 for $7.8M after sharing sensitive mental health data” Grok 4.1 Fast · Employee wellbeing · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as BetterHelp, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BetterHelp was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Calm Health14 of 230Not among the top eight
Headspace14 of 230Not among the top eight
Talkspace12 of 230Not among the top eight
Cerebral8 of 230Not among the top eight
Spring Health6 of 232Not among the top eight
Moodfit6 of 230Not among the top eight
Happify5 of 230Not among the top eight
Moodkit5 of 230Not among the top eight
Replika: My AI Friend5 of 230Not among the top eight
Sanvello5 of 230Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 BetterHelp. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 22 of the 23 answers that named BetterHelp and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

betterhelp.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, BetterHelp takes 0% of first choices and Wellable takes 22%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “wellbeing platforms”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “employee wellbeing platform”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
not counted (“betterhelp”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
1,038 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 2,196,085 a month
Searches its site ranks for
232,959 · 8,898 in the top three
Sites linking to it
29,817
Paid Google search
31 searches its ads show for, about 215 clicks and $2,654 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
120+ ads · 115 text, 5 video · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as BetterHelp, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 93 in the year, 27 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 110 of 111 in employee wellbeing
Segment leader
22%
Wellable
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
23 answers
Its own site cited
in 22 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on betterhelp.com
44,276
subdomains included
Content
663
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
0 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Glossary or explainer46132026-08-06
Comparison10502024-05-18
Conference or event4302023-10-09
Case study2502019-04-30
Report or ebook1412026-07-10
Podcast or video902024-04-23
News or press3undated
Template or tool2undated
Blog1undated
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page betterhelp.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

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The company

BetterHelp is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Professional Therapy With A Licensed Therapist
For
People looking for affordable, convenient online therapy from licensed, professional therapists
Price stated
average copay of $23 per session for insurance-eligible members; or $70-$100 per week without insurance betterhelp.com
Starting price
70 betterhelp.com
Certifications
licensed psychologists (PsyD)licensed professional counselors (LPC)licensed marriage and family therapists (LMFT)licensed clinical social workers (LCSW)licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC)CSA STAR Level 1HIPAAHITRUST
Customers named
CorpCare15FiveHuelAlvotechCanopy WellbeingBe The Source
Not stated on the pages read
Free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What BetterHelp's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: betterhelp.com, trust.betterhelp.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for BetterHelp by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where BetterHelp is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name BetterHelp, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
The subscriber app

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at betterhelp.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.