# Employee engagement surveys: 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 a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/experience/employee-engagement-surveys

**Standing:** 15Five Engage leads with 39% of first choices; verdict contested. 54 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [15Five Engage](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/15five-engage/index.md) | 39% | 2% | 44 |
| 2 | [Culture Amp](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/culture-amp/index.md) | 22% | 25% | 48 |
| 3 | [Workleap Officevibe](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/workleap-officevibe/index.md) | 11% | 3% | 35 |
| 4 | [Lattice Engagement](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/lattice-engagement/index.md) | 7% | 12% | 32 |
| 5 | [Leapsome](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/leapsome/index.md) | 4% | 14% | 21 |
| 7 | [ThriveSparrow Engage](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/thrivesparrow-engage/index.md) | 2% | 6% | 17 |
| 9 | [Google Forms](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/google-forms/index.md) | 2% | 30% | 10 |
| 18 | [Microsoft Viva Glint](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/microsoft-viva-glint/index.md) | 0% | 18% | 11 |
| 19 | [SurveyMonkey](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/surveymonkey/index.md) | 0% | 30% | 10 |
| 108 | [Qualtrics EmployeeXM](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/qualtrics-employeexm/index.md) | 0% | 50% | 16 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 108 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, Lattice Engagement, Quantum Workplace, WorkTango
- GPT-5.4 mini: Culture Amp; alternatives Betterworks, Lattice Engagement, Workvivo
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Lattice Engagement; alternatives 15Five Engage, Culture Amp, Leapsome, Workleap Officevibe
- Perplexity Sonar: Culture Amp; alternatives 15Five Engage, Lattice Engagement, Workleap Officevibe
- Grok 4.20: 15Five Engage; alternatives Leapsome, Workleap Officevibe
- Mistral Small: 15Five Engage, Leapsome, Workleap Officevibe; alternatives Lattice Engagement
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: 15Five Engage; alternatives Leapsome, Workleap Officevibe
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: 15Five Engage; alternatives Culture Amp, Lattice Engagement, Leapsome
- Kimi K2: 15Five Engage; alternatives Leapsome
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: 15Five Engage; alternatives Leapsome, Workleap Officevibe
- MiniMax M2.5: 15Five Engage; alternatives Culture Amp, Leapsome, Workleap Officevibe
- GPT-6 Luna: Culture Amp; alternatives 15Five Engage, Lattice Engagement, Workleap Officevibe
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 15Five Engage; alternatives Culture Amp, Leapsome, ThriveSparrow Engage, Workleap Officevibe

## Sources the answers cite

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

- thrivesparrow.com: 30 answers, 40 citations
- leadchangegroup.com: 20 answers, 44 citations
- feedbackpulse.com: 16 answers, 20 citations
- paycor.com: 16 answers, 16 citations
- thehappinessindex.com: 12 answers, 16 citations
- peoplemanagingpeople.com: 12 answers, 12 citations
- capterra.com: 10 answers, 14 citations
- leapsome.com: 10 answers, 12 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://thrivesparrow.com/blog/employee-engagement-survey-vendors (18 answers)
- https://paycor.com/resource-center/articles/best-employee-pulse-survey-tools (16 answers)
- https://leadchangegroup.com/employee-survey-software/mid-market (13 answers)
- https://leadchangegroup.com/employee-engagement-software/mid-market (12 answers)
- https://thrivesparrow.com/blog/employee-pulse-survey-tools (11 answers)
- https://peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-employee-pulse-survey-tools (9 answers)
- https://thehappinessindex.com/blog/best-employee-engagement-platforms-mid-market (9 answers)
- https://fitsmallbusiness.com/employee-engagement-tools (7 answers)
- https://sogolytics.com/learning-center/employee-experience/employee-engagement-survey-vendor (7 answers)
- https://xoxoday.com/blogs/empuls/best-employee-engagement-survey-tools (7 answers)

## Warned against

- Culture Amp: 12 of 48 labels negative. "Avoid for Tight Budgets: ... Culture Amp" (Grok 4.20, budget prompt)
- Qualtrics EmployeeXM: 8 of 16 labels negative. "Avoid enterprise-heavy options like Qualtrics or Workday Peakon unless your needs are highly customized" (Grok 4.20, direct prompt)
- Lattice Engagement: 4 of 32 labels negative. "Avoid for Tight Budgets: Tools like Lattice ($4/user/month + $4K annual min)" (Grok 4.20, budget prompt)
- Leapsome: 3 of 21 labels negative. "Avoid for Tight Budgets: ... or Leapsome" (Grok 4.20, budget prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 13 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
New leader: Culture Amp (37%) to 15Five Engage (39%). Margin 17 points, beyond the floor.

- 15Five Engage: 5% to 39%, +34. Cleared the floor by 21 points · rank 5 → 1 of 108.
- Culture Amp: 37% to 22%, −15. Cleared the floor by 2 points · rank 1 → 2 of 108.
- Leapsome: 12% to 4%, −8. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 3 → 5 of 108.
- FeedbackPulse: 5% to 0%, −5. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 6 → 15 of 108.
- Lattice Engagement: 10% to 7%, −3. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 4 of 108, unchanged.
- Workleap Officevibe: 13% to 11%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 2 → 3 of 108.
- ThriveSparrow Engage: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 27 → 7 of 108.
- Microsoft Viva Glint: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 8 → 18 of 108.
- Qualtrics EmployeeXM: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 15 → 108 of 108.
- Google Forms: 3% to 2%, −1. Inside the floor by 12 points · rank 7 → 9 of 108.
- SurveyMonkey: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 53 → 19 of 108.

## 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.