3 categories · RankedMatter
Matter is employee recognition software for Slack and Microsoft Teams · matterapp.com ↗
Strongest at mid-market. Thin evidence at enterprise: three labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Bonusly is first at 61%.
Bonusly is first at 58%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Awardco is first at 29%.
Why models recommend it
“1. Matter *(Best for Slack & Microsoft Teams)* ... Free plan available; Paid plans start around $1–$2 per user/month.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“A recognition platform designed to work inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, with a free plan available”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“or Matter if you want to move quickly with an existing Slack/Teams integration”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“If your budget is extremely limited (under ~$100/month): Go with Matter”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Matter, over the 52 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 17 | Compare → | |
| 25 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 25 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 14 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 5 | View → | |
| 12 | 3 | View → |
What the models named instead of Matter →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Matter's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Teams
- Price stated
- Plans include Free, Basic, Pro, a Surveys add-on, and Enterprise with custom pricing.
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Free Forever plan with kudos recognition, the kudos template library, and Feedback Friday. No credit card required.
- Integrations
- 2 · 15 (its own pages disagree)
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, EU-US DPF
- Customers named
- Fireflies, True Classic, Trend Hunter, SXSW, McInnis & Holloway, Planters Bank, Octus, Bolt
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
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 52 of the 52 answers that named Matter and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
157 of the 184 domain citations in answers naming Matter came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 612 | 9 | 2026-09-07 | Performance management, 360 feedback | |
| Comparison | 100 | 59 | 2026-09-03 | ||
| Case study | 20 | 17 | 2026-08-27 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 17 | 0 | 2026-06-12 | 360 feedback, Performance management | |
| Report or ebook | 3 | 3 | 2026-08-28 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 0 | 2026-04-13 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-07Employee surveys software blog
- 2026-09-07Microsoft teams apps for employee engagement blog
- 2026-09-07Microsoft teams apps for employee recognition blog
- 2026-09-07Microsoft teams apps for employee rewards blog
- 2026-09-07Microsoft teams apps for employee surveys blog
- 2026-09-07Microsoft teams apps for pulse surveys blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page matterapp.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.