# Employee wellbeing and mental health: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "employee wellbeing platform" and as "mental health benefit for employees", 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-wellbeing-and-mental-health/2026-11

**Standing:** Wellable leads with 26% of first choices; verdict contested. 47 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Wellable](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/wellable/index.md) | 26% | 0% | 40 |
| 2 | [Vantage Fit](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/vantage-fit/index.md) | 13% | 0% | 28 |
| 3 | [Spring Health](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/spring-health/index.md) | 11% | 11% | 19 |
| 4 | [Woliba](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/woliba/index.md) | 11% | 6% | 17 |
| 5 | [Lyra Health](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/lyra-health/index.md) | 9% | 7% | 15 |
| 7 | [Wellhub](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/wellhub/index.md) | 4% | 5% | 21 |
| 8 | [Modern Health](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/modern-health/index.md) | 4% | 0% | 12 |
| 9 | [Wellness Coach](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/wellness-coach/index.md) | 4% | 0% | 11 |
| 14 | [Talkspace](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/talkspace/index.md) | 2% | 47% | 15 |
| 15 | [Headspace for Employers](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/headspace-for-employers/index.md) | 0% | 12% | 34 |
| 16 | [Calm Health](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/calm-health/index.md) | 0% | 12% | 25 |
| 17 | [Personify Health](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/personify-health/index.md) | 0% | 6% | 18 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 120 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: no first choice
- GPT-5.4 mini: Wellable; alternatives Perkbox, Vantage Circle
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Wellable; alternatives Lyra Health, Modern Health, Spring Health, Wellhub
- Perplexity Sonar: Wellable; alternatives Personify Health, Unmind, Wellness360, Woliba
- Grok 4.20: Wellable; alternatives CoreHealth, Terryberry, Woliba
- Mistral Small: Wellness Coach, Woliba; alternatives Vantage Fit, Wellable
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Wellable; alternatives Vantage Fit, Wellness Coach, Woliba
- Llama 4 Maverick: Wellable; alternatives Terryberry, Vantage Fit, Woliba
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Viva Benefits; alternatives Headspace for Employers, Lyra Health, Modern Health, Wellable
- Kimi K2: Wellable, Woliba; alternatives Vantage Fit
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Wellness Coach, Woliba; alternatives Vantage Fit, Wellable
- MiniMax M2.5: Wellable, Woliba; alternatives Nectar, Vantage Fit
- GPT-6 Luna: Wellhub; alternatives Modern Health, Spring Health
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Wellable; alternatives Navigate Wellbeing, Vantage Fit, Wellness Coach, Woliba

## Sources the answers cite

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

- leadchangegroup.com: 20 answers, 41 citations
- championhealth.co.uk: 17 answers, 43 citations
- wellable.co: 15 answers, 19 citations
- peoplemanagingpeople.com: 15 answers, 16 citations
- firsthr.app: 15 answers, 15 citations
- guideflow.com: 13 answers, 14 citations
- deskbreak.app: 13 answers, 13 citations
- linkedin.com: 12 answers, 13 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://firsthr.app/compare/performance/corporate-wellness-software (14 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/employee-wellbeing-software (12 answers)
- https://championhealth.co.uk/insights/best-employee-wellbeing-platforms-remote-hybrid-teams-uk-2026 (11 answers)
- https://leadchangegroup.com/employee-wellness-platforms (11 answers)
- https://peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/employee-wellness-platforms (11 answers)
- https://leadchangegroup.com/employee-wellness-platforms/compare (10 answers)
- https://leadchangegroup.com/employee-wellness-platforms/mid-market (10 answers)
- https://wellable.co/top-employee-wellness-companies (10 answers)
- https://championhealth.co.uk/insights/best-employee-wellbeing-platforms-remote-hybrid-teams-uk (9 answers)
- https://linkedin.com/pulse/top-15-employee-wellness-platforms-2026-shivam-rawat-ve5if (9 answers)

## Warned against

- BetterHelp: 10 of 16 labels negative. "the U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined BetterHelp $7.8 million after it was found to have shared users' sensitive mental health data with third parties" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- Talkspace: 7 of 15 labels negative. "TalkSpace has been flagged for data privacy concerns and is sometimes included in lists of platforms to avoid." (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Cerebral: 5 of 6 labels negative. "Cerebral loaded 799 trackers within the first minute of downloading the app ... approximately 78,000 users were affected by a 2024 Cerebral data incident" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- Headspace for Employers: 4 of 34 labels negative. "lacks strong clinical evidence for broad mental health claims... may underperform for those with serious issues" (Grok 4.20, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 13 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Wellable at 26%.

- Modern Health: 13% to 4%, −9. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 3 → 8 of 120.
- Woliba: 4% to 11%, +7. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 7 → 4 of 120.
- Wellable: 22% to 26%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 1 of 120, unchanged.
- Vantage Fit: 9% to 13%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 5 → 2 of 120.
- Wellhub: 0% to 4%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 18 → 7 of 120.
- Wellness Coach: 0% to 4%, +4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 36 → 9 of 120.
- Spring Health: 13% to 11%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 2 → 3 of 120.
- YuMuuv: 11% to 9%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 4 → 6 of 120.
- Talkspace: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 109 → 14 of 120.
- Headspace for Employers: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 9 → 15 of 120.
- Personify Health: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 10 → 17 of 120.
- Lyra Health: 9% to 9%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 6 → 5 of 120.

## 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.