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Employee engagement surveys · November 2026 Edition
15Five Engage vs Culture Amp
Eight of fourteen models named 15Five Engage first on the direct prompt; four named Culture Amp. Both were named by all fourteen models and 15Five Engage carries 44 labels and Culture Amp 48, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in two categories this edition.
Named in nine categories this edition.
First-choice share39%22%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate2%25%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#2A position in a field of 10; printed, not drawn.
Labels4448A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, 15Five Engage reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Workleap Officevibe was named alongside these two in nine of the fourteen direct answers. 15Five Engage vs Workleap Officevibe · 15Five Engage vs Lattice Engagement · 15Five Engage vs Leapsome
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.
15Five EngageFirst choices, of fourteen modelsCulture Amp
Direct845 against Culture Amp
Paraphrase752 against Culture Amp
Comparative02
Budget-constrained501 against 15Five Engage · 3 against Culture Amp
Scale-constrained131 against Culture Amp
Negative011 against Culture Amp
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 November 2026 Edition, 15Five Engage and Culture Amp were named in the same answer eighty-five times, of the 121 answers naming 15Five Engage and the 416 naming Culture Amp. In those answers Culture Amp took the first choice eighteen times and 15Five Engage twenty-four.
Every model, every framing
The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where 15Five Engage and Culture Amp stood in it.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | ||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | | |||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | |||
| Grok 4.20 | | | | | ||
| 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 | | | |
15Five Engage Culture Amp first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, 15Five Engage on the left and Culture Amp on the right.The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where 15Five Engage and Culture Amp stood in it.
15Five Engage first, Culture Amp an alternative
8 of 14 modelsCulture Amp was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Grok 4.2015Five Engage alternatives: Leapsome, Workleap Officevibe
Mistral Small15Five Engage, Leapsome, Workleap Officevibe alternatives: Lattice Engagement
DeepSeek V4 Flash15Five Engage alternatives: Leapsome, Workleap Officevibe
Qwen 3.7 Flash15Five Engage alternatives: Culture Amp, Lattice Engagement, Leapsome
Kimi K215Five Engage alternatives: Leapsome
GLM 4.7 FlashX15Five Engage alternatives: Leapsome, Workleap Officevibe
MiniMax M2.515Five Engage alternatives: Culture Amp, Leapsome, Workleap Officevibe
Muse Glimmer 30B15Five Engage alternatives: Culture Amp, Leapsome, ThriveSparrow Engage, Workleap Officevibe
Culture Amp first, 15Five Engage an alternative
4 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 Engagement, Quantum Workplace, WorkTango
GPT-5.4 miniCulture Amp alternatives: Betterworks, Lattice Engagement, Workvivo
Perplexity SonarCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five Engage, Lattice Engagement, Workleap Officevibe
GPT-6 LunaCulture Amp alternatives: 15Five Engage, Lattice Engagement, Workleap Officevibe
Neither was the first choice, one was named
1 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Gemini 3.5 FlashLattice Engagement alternatives: 15Five Engage, Culture Amp, Leapsome, Workleap Officevibe
Neither was named
1 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
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 eighteen points.
15Five Engage21%#2 of 11Culture Amp4%#6 of 11Mid-marketThe figures above
15Five Engage leads by seventeen points.
15Five Engage39%#1 of 10Culture Amp22%#2 of 10Enterprise
The order flips: Culture Amp leads at enterprise.
Culture Amp40%#1 of 715Five Engage6%#5 of 7What the models said about 15Five Engage
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of five in this category shown.
“Avoid for Tight Budgets: ... 15Five” Grok 4.20 · budget prompt · hard negative
“15Five - Best for mid-market and enterprise HR teams that want performance reviews, OKRs, and engagement surveys in one per-user platform.” Llama 4 Maverick · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Popular starting points include Culture Amp for insights depth or 15Five for integrated performance/engagement.” Grok 4.20 · scale prompt · first choice
“Top Overall Value: 15Five ... Start with 15Five if you want a balance of price and robust features.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
What the models said about Culture Amp
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of four in this category shown.
“Avoid for Tight Budgets: ... Culture Amp” Grok 4.20 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Vendors that hide pricing — Platforms like CultureAmp and others require you to contact sales, with minimum annual spends around $4,500+ and 12-month minimum contracts” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“Culture Amp (Best for Benchmarking and Insights) ... Advanced survey technology that compares your results against an industry-specific database” Qwen 3.7 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
“Platforms like Culture Amp and Qualtrics offer scientifically tested question sets... (This is where Culture Amp and Qualtrics are strongest.)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
Also compared
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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.