# People analytics: what AI models recommend, September 2026

Gane Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "people analytics platform" and as "HR analytics software", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/planning/people-analytics/2026-09

This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/planning/people-analytics/index.md

**Standing:** HiBob leads with 15% 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 | [HiBob](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/hibob/index.md) | 15% | 5% | 22 |
| 2 | [Crunchr](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/crunchr/index.md) | 13% | 3% | 29 |
| 3 | [BambooHR](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/bamboohr/index.md) | 13% | 19% | 26 |
| 4 | [Visier](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/visier/index.md) | 11% | 44% | 48 |
| 5 | [ChartHop](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/charthop/index.md) | 8% | 10% | 29 |
| 6 | [Lattice](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/lattice/index.md) | 4% | 9% | 22 |
| 7 | [Rippling](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/rippling/index.md) | 4% | 6% | 17 |
| 10 | [Culture Amp](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/culture-amp/index.md) | 2% | 5% | 22 |
| 28 | [One Model](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/one-model/index.md) | 0% | 33% | 21 |
| 77 | [Microsoft Power BI](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/microsoft-power-bi/index.md) | 0% | 46% | 13 |
| 84 | [Workday People Analytics](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/workday-people-analytics/index.md) | 0% | 44% | 27 |
| 92 | [Tableau](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/tableau/index.md) | 0% | 55% | 11 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 95 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: HiBob; alternatives Rippling, UKG People Analytics
- GPT-5.4 mini: Visier; alternatives ChartHop, Crunchr, Workday Peakon
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Knoetic; alternatives ChartHop, Culture Amp, Illoominus, Paradox
- Perplexity Sonar: Crunchr, HiBob; alternatives ChartHop, Culture Amp
- Grok 4.20: Crunchr; alternatives ChartHop, Lattice
- Mistral Small: Crunchr; alternatives HiBob, Lattice
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: ChartHop, Crunchr; alternatives Culture Amp, Lattice, Leapsome, Orgnostic
- Llama 4 Maverick: ChartHop
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Visier; alternatives Culture Amp, HiBob, Looker, Tableau
- Kimi K2: Crunchr; alternatives ChartHop, Visier
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Crunchr; alternatives BambooHR, ChartHop, Personio
- MiniMax M2.5: Visier; alternatives Lattice, Workday HCM

## Sources the answers cite

63 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- hrbench.com: 30 answers, 36 citations
- personio.com: 26 answers, 26 citations
- eletive.com: 24 answers, 24 citations
- thrivesparrow.com: 22 answers, 22 citations
- workhuman.com: 22 answers, 22 citations
- hr.university: 21 answers, 22 citations
- peoplemanagingpeople.com: 20 answers, 22 citations
- selectsoftwarereviews.com: 18 answers, 18 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://hrbench.com/blog/best-people-analytics-software (29 answers)
- https://personio.com/hr-lexicon/hr-analytics-tools (26 answers)
- https://eletive.com/blog/people-analytics-tools (24 answers)
- https://workhuman.com/blog/people-analytics-software (22 answers)
- https://hr.university/tools/hr-analytics-software (21 answers)
- https://thrivesparrow.com/blog/best-people-analytics-software (20 answers)
- https://peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-people-analytics-software (17 answers)
- https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tools/10-best-hr-analytics-tools-for-enterprises/133883578 (16 answers)
- https://selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/analytics-tools (16 answers)
- https://firsthr.app/compare/general/hr-analytics-software (15 answers)

## Warned against

- Visier: 21 of 48 labels negative. "Enterprise platforms like Visier offer custom enterprise pricing and implementation complexity that make them a poor fit for small to mid-market organizations." (Claude Haiku 4.5, direct prompt)
- Workday People Analytics: 12 of 27 labels negative. "Avoid enterprise tools. Visier, Workday, and Eightfold AI ... not appropriate here." (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- One Model: 7 of 21 labels negative. "Platforms to Avoid in the Mid-Market ... Visier or One Model ... generally poor fits for the mid-market" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, direct prompt)
- BambooHR: 5 of 26 labels negative. "avoid it if your requirement is *advanced people analytics*" (Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt)

## Record

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