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Index › HR › Products › The Happiness Index · November 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

The Happiness Index

thehappinessindex.com ↗

–Too few to rank

4/14Models named it

0First choices

1Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked inEmployee engagement surveys #79 mid-market Employee wellbeing and mental health #87

What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. The Happiness Index has 3.

Why models recommend it

No positive label carried a quote.

What gives them pause

“Niche for mid-market with neuroscience/AI focus; good for frontline/growing B2B but less established.”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as The Happiness Index, over the 4 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together	Picked instead
15Five Engage	2	2	View →
Culture Amp	2	0	View →
Leapsome	2	0	View →
Workleap Officevibe	2	0	View →
Wellness Coach	1	1	View →
Woliba	1	1	View →
CoreHealth	1	0	View →
FeedbackPulse	1	0	View →
Happily	1	0	View →
Lattice Engagement	1	0	View →

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

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.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named The Happiness Index 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 4 of the 4 answers that named The Happiness Index and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

leadchangegroup.com4

thehappinessindex.comIts own site4

leapsome.com2

paycor.com2

sogolytics.com2

thrivesparrow.com2

aipromptshub.co1

championhealth.co.uk1

feedbackpulse.com1

g2.com1

Sixteen of the twenty domain citations in answers naming The Happiness Index came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

thehappinessindex.com/blog/best-employee-engagement-platforms-mid-market3

leadchangegroup.com/employee-engagement-software2

leadchangegroup.com/employee-engagement-software/mid-market2

leadchangegroup.com/employee-survey-software/mid-market2

leapsome.com/comparisons/employee-engagement-software2

paycor.com/resource-center/articles/best-employee-pulse-survey-tools2

sogolytics.com/learning-center/employee-experience/employee-engagement-survey-vendor2

aipromptshub.co/hr/ai-performance-review-tools-20261

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on The Happiness Index across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Warning	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.20	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0