Microsoft Viva is an employee experience platform from Microsoft that works inside Microsoft 365 apps such as Teams and Outlook · microsoft.com ↗
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Microsoft Viva has 7.
“For most mid-sized B2B companies, Microsoft Viva is my top recommendation”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“If you want one integrated platform ... I'd recommend Microsoft Viva.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Paraphrase question · first choice
“A lighter, more affordable option if you're already deep in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem... It may feel insufficient if you need device-level diagnostics.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Choose Microsoft Viva instead if the company already has a deeply adopted Microsoft 365 environment”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · alternative
“focuses on engagement but lacks the deep endpoint observability of pure DEX tools”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Viva, over the 22 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 6 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 2 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
Stated on Microsoft Viva's own site, not checked by Gane.
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 →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 21 of the 22 answers that named Microsoft Viva and are not a share of its labels.
Sixty of the sixty-seven domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Viva came from a third party's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |