Culture Amp vs Lattice: 2026 Comparison

Pricing and features verified July 2026.

Lattice fits organizations that want performance management, goal-tracking, and continuous feedback at the center of their people strategy, with published per-seat pricing starting around $8–$10/seat/month. Culture Amp fits organizations that prioritize research-backed engagement survey depth and benchmarking data, with custom pricing typically starting around $4,500/year. Neither platform is an applicant tracking system, so whichever one you choose, you’ll still need a separate hiring tool to get people in the door before either one takes over.

At a Glance

What Is Culture Amp?

Culture Amp is an employee engagement and performance platform built around three core products: Engage (engagement and pulse surveys, benchmarking, text analytics), Perform (goal/OKR tracking, performance reviews, continuous feedback), and Develop (career paths and growth planning). It’s used by 6,000–6,500 companies, and its differentiator is “people science”: an in-house research team and benchmark dataset built from more than a billion survey responses, refreshed twice yearly and requiring a minimum sample size (20+ companies, 20,000+ respondents for an industry benchmark) before publishing. Culture Amp does not publish pricing; every deal goes through a custom quote based on employee count and which products you license.

What Is Lattice?

Lattice is a performance-management and engagement platform organized around Performance (reviews, calibration, succession planning), Goals & OKRs, and Engagement (pulse and lifecycle surveys), with Compensation and Grow (career development) available as add-ons. It reports 5,000+ customers, including GoCardless, Figma, and Calm, and unlike Culture Amp, Lattice publishes per-seat pricing directly on its website. In 2026, Lattice is winding down the HRIS and Payroll products it launched in October 2024, redirecting product investment toward its AI Agent and a new Workday integration partnership instead.

Pricing Compared

Lattice is the more transparent of the two: published, per-seat pricing starting around $8–$10/seat/month for its Performance module, $8/seat/month for Goals & OKRs, and $4/seat/month for Engagement, with a $4,000 minimum annual commitment. Add Compensation (+$6/seat/month) or Grow (+$4/seat/month), and buyer-side estimates put a fully-loaded Lattice deployment around $15–$25/seat/month. (Note: Lattice’s own pricing FAQ text references an $8/seat “unbundled” Performance rate that differs from the $10 headline shown on its pricing cards, so confirm the current live number before budgeting.)

Culture Amp publishes nothing. Its pricing page states cost depends on employee count, which products you license (Engage, Perform, Develop), and service tier, all billed annually. Buyer-side estimates put small teams (15–75 employees) around $4,500–$9,000/year for Engage alone, mid-market (200–500 employees) around $20,000–$55,000/year, and enterprise deployments $40,000–$80,000+/year.

Both companies segment support and pricing by company size (Culture Amp explicitly bands customers under 200, 200–999, and 1,000+ employees; Lattice tags case studies the same way), so neither is really built with a flat, predictable price for a small team, even though Lattice’s per-seat model is easier to estimate up front.

Feature Deep-Dive

Survey science and benchmarking. This is Culture Amp’s clearest differentiator. Its in-house “people scientists” and published benchmark methodology (requiring minimum sample sizes before publishing industry, geography, or function-level comparisons) give it real, defensible statistical grounding that most competitors, including Lattice, don’t match at the same depth. On G2, Culture Amp scores highest specifically on Employee Pulse Surveys.

Performance-management depth. Lattice wins decisively here. Head-to-head G2 data shows Lattice ahead of Culture Amp on 360 Reviews (9.2 vs. 8.5), Continuous Feedback (9.4 vs. 8.7), 1-on-1 Meetings (9.5 vs. 8.5), and both Team and Individual OKRs (9.2 vs. 8.4–8.5). If performance reviews, goal cascades, and calibration are your primary use case, Lattice’s toolset is simply more developed.

AI features. Both offer free AI assistants rather than gating them behind a paid upsell. Lattice’s AI Agent (summarization, coaching, note-taking) is available platform-wide regardless of which base module you buy, following an October 2025 announcement making it free after previously signaling it might become a paid feature. Culture Amp’s AI Coach is also free, but it’s functionally gated by product: you only get AI Coach in Surveys if you’ve licensed Engage, and AI Coach in Perform if you’ve licensed Performance Cycles.

Compensation and HRIS-adjacent features. Lattice’s Compensation add-on (benchmarks, comp bands, cycle management) scores well against Culture Amp’s more limited compensation data management feature. But this comparison is actively shifting: Lattice launched a full HRIS and Payroll product in October 2024 and is discontinuing both in 2026 (Payroll ended March 31, 2026; HRIS access ends July 31, 2026), so any “Lattice as an HR system of record” pitch should be treated as outdated.

Integrations. Lattice’s Integration APIs score higher on G2 (8.6 vs. Culture Amp’s 7.6), and reviewers specifically flag Culture Amp’s Rippling integration as unreliable, causing duplicate employee profiles in at least one documented case.

Choose Culture Amp If…

• Research-backed survey methodology and industry benchmarking matter more to you than performance-review workflows
• You want engagement and pulse surveys as your primary use case, not goal-tracking or compensation
• You’re comfortable with a custom quote process and don’t need to see pricing up front
• You can tolerate a support model that’s reportedly stronger for larger accounts than smaller ones

Choose Lattice If…

• Performance reviews, goal/OKR tracking, and continuous feedback are your primary need
• You want to see per-seat pricing on the vendor’s own website before a sales conversation
• A free, platform-wide AI assistant matters more to you than survey-benchmarking depth
• You don’t need Lattice’s now-discontinued HRIS/Payroll products as part of the decision

A Third Option: What If You Don’t Want a Second Platform?

Both Culture Amp and Lattice are pure post-hire tools. Neither posts a job, tracks a candidate, or manages an interview, which means every company evaluating them is already paying for (or about to buy) a separate ATS on top of whichever engagement platform they choose. For a 10–75 employee company, that’s two vendor relationships, two implementations, and two invoices just to cover hiring and engagement.

Plural bundles both in one platform. The Retain plan ($129/month) adds employee feedback, structured evaluations, engagement surveys, pulse checks, and recurring 1-on-1s to the same system you already use for hiring, or bundle Hire and Retain together for $179/month to get applicant tracking, AI-assisted application review, and engagement tools under a single subscription. There’s no separate sales process for engagement once you’re already a hiring customer, and no second vendor to manage.

Explore employee engagement surveys, pulse checks, and recurring one-on-ones with Plural.

FAQ

Is Culture Amp cheaper than Lattice?

Lattice publishes per-seat pricing on its website (Performance ~$10, Goals & OKRs $8, Engagement $4 per seat per month), with a $4,000 annual minimum. Culture Amp does not publish pricing; buyer-reported figures start around $4,500/year for small teams. Lattice is more transparent, but once you add Culture Amp’s or Lattice’s optional modules, effective per-seat costs can land in a similar range.

Does Lattice or Culture Amp have a free trial?

Neither offers a self-serve free trial. Lattice offers a self-guided product “Tour” without a live demo, and both companies otherwise route evaluation through a sales demo and custom quote or contract.

Does Culture Amp or Lattice have better AI features?

Lattice’s AI Agent is free for all customers as of October 2025 and handles summarization, coaching, and note-taking grounded in your people data. Culture Amp’s AI Coach is also offered at no additional charge, but which of its four modules you get depends on which base product (Engage, Perform, Develop) you’ve already purchased.

Do Culture Amp or Lattice include an ATS?

No. Neither platform is an applicant tracking system. Culture Amp only ingests hiring-funnel data from a separate ATS you already own for reporting purposes. Lattice syncs a candidate’s record from a separate ATS (commonly Greenhouse or Lever) only after they’re hired, for onboarding. Both require a standalone hiring tool.

Is Lattice shutting down its HRIS product?

Yes, as of 2026 Lattice is discontinuing the HRIS and Payroll products it launched in October 2024. Payroll access ended March 31, 2026, and HRIS access ends July 31, 2026, meaning any “HR system of record” positioning for Lattice should be reconsidered.

Sources

• Culture Amp pricing structure and product tiers: cultureamp.com/platform/plans-and-pricing
• Culture Amp AI Coach announcement: Culture Amp: AI Coach announcement, Oct 27, 2025
• Culture Amp benchmarking methodology: Culture Amp: Employee Engagement Benchmark
• Culture Amp G2 comparison data: G2: Culture Amp vs. Lattice
• Lattice pricing: lattice.com/pricing
• Lattice AI Agent announcement: Lattice: AI Agent now available to all customers
• Lattice HRIS/Payroll discontinuation: Calamari: Lattice HRIS is shutting down
• Plural Retain features and pricing: pluralcareers.com/pricing