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

Gane Index, November 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://www.gane.ai/index/hr/experience/employee-engagement-surveys/enterprise

**Standing:** Culture Amp leads with 40% of first choices; verdict contested. 53 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Culture Amp](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/culture-amp/index.md) | 40% | 11% | 56 |
| 2 | [Qualtrics EmployeeXM](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/qualtrics-employeexm/index.md) | 25% | 16% | 56 |
| 3 | [Microsoft Viva Glint](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/microsoft-viva-glint/index.md) | 8% | 0% | 36 |
| 4 | [Workday Peakon Employee Voice](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/workday-peakon-employee-voice/index.md) | 8% | 5% | 39 |
| 5 | [15Five Engage](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/15five-engage/index.md) | 6% | 22% | 23 |
| 6 | [Lattice Engagement](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/lattice-engagement/index.md) | 4% | 17% | 29 |
| 8 | [Perceptyx](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/perceptyx/index.md) | 2% | 18% | 17 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 102 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

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

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Culture Amp; alternatives 15Five Engage, CultureMonkey, Qualtrics XM
- GPT-5.4 mini: Qualtrics EmployeeXM; alternatives Culture Amp, WorkTango, Workvivo
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Culture Amp; alternatives Lattice Engagement, Microsoft Viva Glint, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- Perplexity Sonar: Culture Amp; alternatives Microsoft Viva Glint, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- Grok 4.20: Culture Amp; alternatives Perceptyx, Qualtrics EmployeeXM
- Mistral Small: Culture Amp, Qualtrics EmployeeXM; alternatives 15Five Engage, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Culture Amp; alternatives Microsoft Viva Glint, Perceptyx, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- Llama 4 Maverick: Culture Amp; alternatives Microsoft Viva Glint, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Qualtrics EmployeeXM; alternatives Culture Amp, Microsoft Viva, Microsoft Viva Glint, ServiceNow Workforce Experience
- Kimi K2: Microsoft Viva Glint; alternatives Culture Amp, Perceptyx, Qualtrics EmployeeXM
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Culture Amp; alternatives Microsoft Viva Glint, Perceptyx, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- MiniMax M2.5: Culture Amp, Qualtrics EmployeeXM; alternatives Microsoft Viva Glint, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- GPT-6 Luna: Culture Amp; alternatives Microsoft Viva Glint, Qualtrics EmployeeXM, Workday Peakon Employee Voice
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Culture Amp, Qualtrics EmployeeXM; alternatives Microsoft Viva Glint, Perceptyx, Workday Peakon Employee Voice

## Sources the answers cite

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

- thrivesparrow.com: 28 answers, 32 citations
- culturemonkey.io: 20 answers, 32 citations
- sogolytics.com: 17 answers, 23 citations
- assessmentcloud.com: 15 answers, 33 citations
- feedbackpulse.com: 15 answers, 24 citations
- infeedo.ai: 15 answers, 20 citations
- capterra.com: 12 answers, 18 citations
- leadchangegroup.com: 12 answers, 15 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://thrivesparrow.com/blog/employee-engagement-survey-vendors (17 answers)
- https://sogolytics.com/learning-center/employee-experience/employee-engagement-survey-vendor (14 answers)
- https://paycor.com/resource-center/articles/best-employee-pulse-survey-tools (12 answers)
- https://xoxoday.com/blogs/empuls/best-employee-engagement-survey-tools (11 answers)
- https://feedbackpulse.com/resources/best-employee-engagement-software (10 answers)
- https://infeedo.ai/blog/best-employee-engagement-platforms-for-hr-adoption (8 answers)
- https://keka.com/us/best-employee-engagement-software (8 answers)
- https://thrivesparrow.com/blog/employee-pulse-survey-tools (8 answers)
- https://inpulse.com/employee-engagement-survey-platforms-compared (7 answers)
- https://leadchangegroup.com/employee-engagement-software/enterprise (7 answers)

## Warned against

- Qualtrics EmployeeXM: 9 of 56 labels negative. "Avoid Qualtrics and Culture Amp if "predictable total cost across thousands of users" is a hard requirement" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Culture Amp: 6 of 56 labels negative. "Avoid Qualtrics and Culture Amp if "predictable total cost across thousands of users" is a hard requirement" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- SalesLoft: 5 of 6 labels negative. "An August 2025 OAuth supply-chain attack used stolen OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift app to pull data out of corporate Salesforce instances." (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- 15Five Engage: 5 of 23 labels negative. "often prohibitively expensive and may require higher tiers for enterprise features" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 13 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Culture Amp at 40%.

- Culture Amp: 29% to 40%, +11. Inside the floor by 2 points · rank 1 of 102, unchanged.
- Workday Peakon Employee Voice: 18% to 8%, −10. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 3 → 4 of 102.
- 15Five Engage: 0% to 6%, +6. Inside the floor by 7 points · rank 22 → 5 of 102.
- Qualtrics EmployeeXM: 20% to 25%, +5. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 2 of 102, unchanged.
- Microsoft Viva Glint: 4% to 8%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 4 → 3 of 102.
- Betterworks: 4% to 0%, −4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 6 → 48 of 102.
- Lattice Engagement: 4% to 4%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 5 → 6 of 102.
- Perceptyx: 2% to 2%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 8 of 102, unchanged.
- CultureMonkey: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 17 → 12 of 102.
- Leapsome: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 21 → 14 of 102.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/hr.