Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 8 → 10 of 50
2 categories · RankedKudos
75Judge labels
2First choices
7Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Recognition and rewards for enterprise buyers
Rank 13 of 98 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 4% of its 26 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Kudos →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business11 of 52
0%23 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market13 of 98
0%26 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise5 of 48
4%22 labels
accepted challenger
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 Kudos 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.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recognition and rewards | Onboarding and employee experience | 0% | 13 of 98 | 4% | 26 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Goals and OKRs | Performance and talent management | 0% | 43 of 68 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Perdoo at 24% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Kudos held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Recognition and rewards · by segment
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 13 → 12 of 87
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 12 → 6 of 46
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recognition and rewards | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 13 of 98, unchanged |
| Goals and OKRs | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 43 of 68, unchanged |
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 Kudos across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Kudos across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct15 labelsNone
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative27 labelsNone
Budget-constrained13 labels2
Scale-constrained7 labelsNone
Negative9 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative75 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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 your goal is to reinforce company culture rather than handing out rewards, Kudos is excellent.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Recognition and rewards · budget prompt · alternative
“Kudos is the mid-market/enterprise pick when dollar-denominated recognition and analytics matter” Muse Glimmer 30B · Recognition and rewards · direct prompt · alternative
“Kudos - offers a simple and affordable solution, with pricing starting at $2-$5/user/month.” Llama 4 Maverick · Recognition and rewards · budget prompt · alternative
“Companies wanting social recognition with enterprise-grade analytics at mid-market price” DeepSeek V4 Flash · 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.
“Limited scalability for large enterprises, fewer integration options” Kimi K2 · Recognition and rewards · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Kudos, over the 75 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kudos was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Kudos, over the 75 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kudos was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Kudos. 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 70 of the 75 answers that named Kudos and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
workhuman.com46
peoplemanagingpeople.com42
engagedly.com39
tremendous.com38
thrivesparrow.com35
achievers.com34
g2.com33
kudos.comYour site31
awardco.com29
bonusly.com22
318 of the 349 domain citations in answers naming Kudos came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
kudos.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Kudos takes 0% of first choices and Bonusly takes 29%.ShowHide
Search and answers
kudos.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Kudos takes 0% of first choices and Bonusly takes 29%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “recognition platforms”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “employee recognition platform”
4
- Searches for its name, Google
- 60,500 a month (“kudos”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3,826 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 26,553 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,053 · 134 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,831
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 13 of 98 in recognition and rewards
Segment leader
29%
Bonusly
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 75 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 70 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on kudos.com
529
subdomains included
Content
466
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
17 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 200 | 5 | 2026-09-25 | Recognition and rewards, People analytics | |
| Glossary or explainer | 160 | 0 | 2026-05-06 | Benefits administration, Compensation management | |
| News or press | 73 | 0 | 2025-01-30 | ||
| Case study | 19 | 0 | 2025-01-30 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 8 | 0 | 2025-01-30 | ||
| Report or ebook | 3 | 0 | 2025-01-30 | ||
| Comparison | 2 | 0 | 2025-01-30 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2021-10-07 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-25How recognition drives employee engagement in credit unions blog
- 2026-08-27The art of noticing has our attention span declined blog
- 2026-08-10Why employee rewards matter blog
- 2026-08-04How kudos works blog
- 2026-07-13Whats new in kudos your 2026q3 product update blog
- 2026-06-25What happens when you design a workplace around humans blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page kudos.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.
Follow Kudos
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Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Kudos is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Kudos is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Next Generation of Recognition Software
- For
- organizations
- Free plan or trial
- 30-Minute Demo; Book a Call kudos.com/platform/spaces
- Integrations claimed
- 7 kudos.com/platform/integrations
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II
- Customers named
- UbayOregon Community Credit UnionRussellWilsonENGIEKanika Hotels & ResortsMake-A-Wish Foundation® of AmericaKidsPeace
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, hosting
What Kudos's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: kudos.com, kudos.com/platform/spaces, kudos.com/customers, kudos.com/platform/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Kudos'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 Kudos, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Kudos by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Kudos 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 Kudos, 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.