3 categories · RankedSmall Improvements
Small Improvements is performance review software that helps employees grow and succeed, with configurable setup and a quick launch · small-improvements.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Spidergap is first at 40%.
Lattice is first at 38%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Culture Amp is first at 51%.
Why models recommend it
“The best performance management software for a company with a limited budget is Small Improvements”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Small Improvements is the cheapest credible performance appraisal software for small business”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“frequently recommended for lightweight teams (10–350 employees) and offers simple reviews and 1:1s at just $3/user/month”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Small Improvements and Primalogik win when you need a working review cycle for under $10,000 a year.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Small Improvements, over the 100 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 68 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 48 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 40 | 3 | View → | |
| 39 | 3 | View → | |
| 38 | 1 | View → | |
| 37 | 13 | View → | |
| 34 | 11 | View → | |
| 32 | 3 | View → | |
| 28 | 2 | View → | |
| 24 | 3 | View → |
What the models named instead of Small Improvements →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Small Improvements's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- For companies between 50 and 500 staff; optimized for SMB and growing teams; HR teams.
- Price stated
- Launch: $3 per user/month, billed annually; Grow: $6 per user/month, billed annually; Elevate: $9 per user/month, billed annually.
- Starting price
- $3 a month, per user
- Free plan or trial
- start your free trial
- Customers named
- Simprints, Goodpatch, Interactive Strategies, Blue Bottle, Dribbble, NW Center, Tomorrow Farms, Athena
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 92 of the 100 answers that named Small Improvements and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
255 of the 295 domain citations in answers naming Small Improvements 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 89 | 1 | 2026-07-31 | Performance management, 360 feedback | |
| Case study | 13 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 10 | 0 | 2025-09-09 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | 0 | 2024-11-25 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-07-31The hidden cost of running hr on spreadsheets blog
- 2026-06-25Should you create your own hr tool blog
- 2026-06-10Is small improvements right for you an honest answer blog
- 2026-06-05The 4 cs of management a monthly rhythm to fix your broken 11s blog
- 2025-09-09Creating and editing vs updating objectives comparison
- 2025-09-04From 360 feedback to clear objectives turning insights into action blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page small-improvements.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.