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Effy AI

effy.ai ↗

#3Best rank (small business)
13/14Models named it
21First choices
2Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked in360 feedback #4Performance management #3 small businessEmployee engagement surveys #10People analytics #40Succession planning #80
What AI models recommend in performance management

Strongest at small business. Thin evidence at enterprise: one label.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Why models recommend it

“For the tightest budget, Effy AI and AssessTEAM offer the best value with essential features at $2-5 per user/month.”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“The best 360-degree feedback tool for a company with a limited budget is Effy AI, which offers a free plan up to 5 users”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“If you have 5 or fewer employees: Start with Zoho People or Effy AI (both free)”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“If you want a purpose-built, affordable tool just for 360: → Spidergap or Effy AI”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · first choice

What gives them pause

No model argued against it.

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Effy AI, over the 77 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

What the models named instead of Effy AI →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Effy AI's own site, not checked by Gane.

For
HR
Price stated
FREE COURSE
Free plan or trial
FREE COURSE
Integrations
3 · 4 (its own pages disagree)
Customers named
Nx, Eleos Health, First Choice Health
Visit effy.ai ↗

How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

Read the method →

Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Effy AI came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 77 of the 77 answers that named Effy AI and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

effy.aiIts own site63
capterra.com47
fitsmallbusiness.com29
forbes.com29
softwareadvice.com28
feedbackpulse.com26
peoplemanagingpeople.com25
thrivesparrow.com24
leadchangegroup.com21
firsthr.app16

245 of the 308 domain citations in answers naming Effy AI came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Effy AI across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.2022004
Mistral Small10102
DeepSeek V4 Flash20002
Llama 4 Maverick11103
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K211002
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
MiniMax M2.520103
GPT-6 Luna10001
Muse Glimmer 30B02002