Lattice vs. 15Five: Which performance management platform should you pick?

How do you actually want to manage performance?

Lattice and 15Five both help you run reviews, set goals, and collect feedback. But they start from different assumptions about what good performance management looks like.

Lattice treats performance as a structured process: define cycles, calibrate ratings, and document outcomes. 15Five treats it as a continuous conversation: check in weekly, coach managers, and let engagement data guide decisions.

The right choice depends on whether your organisation needs more structure or more rhythm. And if you need both, plus real-time visibility into how your people are actually feeling, there may be a better path altogether.

Why listen to us?

Performance management only works when it fits how people actually work. We've spent years helping organisations design processes that managers can run consistently and employees are willing to participate in.

At AkzoNobel, Eletive supports 43,000 employees across multiple countries with a 90% participation rate. At Gina Tricot, the platform helped leadership connect engagement data to store-level performance across a retail workforce. These results come from making insight accessible to the people closest to the work, not just the people running the process.

The outcome of this shift is reflected in the experiences shared in our customer stories.

Giving employees access to their own data really enabled a culture of accountability and self-reflection.

Lattice vs. 15Five: Key differences

Lattice centres on structured review cycles, while 15Five centres on weekly conversations

Lattice is built around formal performance review workflows. Organisations define when reviews happen, who participates, and how ratings are calibrated. Goals, feedback, and career paths all feed into these cycles. This suits companies that need a clear paper trail and consistent evaluation standards.

15Five starts from the opposite direction. Weekly check-ins are the foundation. Employees share updates, wins, and challenges each week, and managers respond with feedback and support. Reviews still happen, but they draw from months of documented conversations rather than starting from scratch.

Lattice offers compensation management, while 15Five invests in AI-powered manager coaching

One of Lattice's strongest differentiators is its built-in compensation module. HR teams can manage merit cycles, benchmark salaries, and tie pay decisions directly to performance data. This is valuable for organisations where compensation transparency and equity are priorities.

15Five has no native compensation features. Instead, it invests heavily in manager enablement. Kona, its AI-powered coaching assistant, joins 1:1 meetings to capture notes and deliver real-time coaching tips. The platform also offers optional manager training content and microlearnings to help leaders improve over time.

Lattice takes a modular, add-on approach, while 15Five bundles features into clear tiers

Lattice uses a modular pricing model. You start with a base performance management package and add engagement, compensation, growth, or HRIS modules as needed. This gives you flexibility, but it also means costs can escalate quickly as you layer on features.

15Five takes the opposite approach. Its three tiers (Engage, Perform, Total Platform) bundle features at fixed price points, making it easier to predict costs upfront. The trade-off is less flexibility in choosing exactly which features you pay for.

What is Lattice?

Lattice is a modular people management platform that brings performance reviews, goal tracking, engagement surveys, and compensation into one system. It's designed for mid-sized and enterprise organisations that want to formalise their performance processes and give HR teams a centralised view of talent decisions.

The platform's strength is its configurability. HR teams can design custom review cycles, set up multi-rater feedback, and use nine-box grids for talent calibration. Goals can surface in daily tools like Slack, Salesforce, and Jira, keeping objectives visible in the flow of work.

Key features

• Configurable performance reviews with multi-rater (360-degree) feedback

• Goal and OKR tracking with mid-cycle adjustment support

• Engagement surveys with 90+ benchmarks and AI-backed suggestions

• Pulse surveys and eNPS tracking

• Compensation management with salary benchmarking and pay equity tools

• Succession planning and nine-box talent grids

• 1:1 meeting templates with shared agendas and notes

• Lattice AI for calibration summaries and review writing assistance

• Career paths and competency matrices

Pricing

Lattice uses a modular per-seat pricing model, billed annually. The minimum annual agreement is $4,000.

HRIS, payroll, and time tracking modules are also available at additional cost. Lattice bills in USD only.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Highly configurable review workflows with strong calibration tools

• Built-in compensation management ties pay directly to performance

• Modular design lets you start small and expand over time

• Goals surface in Slack, Jira, and Salesforce for day-to-day visibility

Cons

• Costs escalate quickly as you add modules; a full suite can reach $22+/user/month

• Engagement tools are an add-on, not included in the base package

• No dedicated anonymous feedback channels or whistleblowing features

• Limited multilingual support and no kiosk mode for frontline workers

What is 15Five?

15Five is an AI-powered performance management platform built around the idea that managers are the primary driver of engagement and performance. It replaces the traditional annual review cycle with continuous feedback, weekly check-ins, and structured coaching tools.

The platform connects engagement surveys, goal tracking, 1:1s, and recognition into a single workflow. Its "Diagnose, Plan, Act" framework helps HR teams identify problem areas through survey data, then use built-in tools to take action. 15Five is commonly used by mid-market organisations (100 to 1,000+ employees) that want to strengthen manager effectiveness at scale.

Key features

• Weekly check-ins for ongoing feedback and reflection

• Amaya AI agent for conversational access to people data

• Kona AI coaching for real-time meeting assistance and manager nudges

• Best-Self Review with 360-degree feedback

• Engagement surveys, including pulse, lifecycle, DEI, and eNPS

• Goal and OKR tracking with alignment visualisation

• High Fives peer recognition

• Talent calibration with custom nine-box grid

• Manager effectiveness indicator

• Optional compensation reviews (add-on)

Pricing

15Five uses a tiered per-user pricing model, billed annually:

Here's what each plan includes:

Kona AI, compensation, and manager coaching content are available as separate add-ons. A 14-day free trial is available.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Strong continuous feedback model with weekly check-ins as the foundation

• Kona AI and Amaya give managers and HR real-time coaching and data access

• Built-in recognition features promote a culture of appreciation

• Clear, published pricing makes budgeting straightforward

Cons

• Key features like Kona AI and compensation are paid add-ons on top of tier pricing

• Survey questions can become repetitive over time, reducing participation

• Limited multilingual support and no dedicated frontline accessibility

• Less suited to organisations with complex, multi-country structures

Best alternative to Lattice & 15Five: Eletive

Lattice gives HR teams control over structured review cycles. 15Five gives managers tools to build continuous feedback habits. Both approaches assume that performance management flows from the top down.

Eletive starts from a different premise: performance improves when every employee has visibility into their own engagement data and clear tools to act on it. Instead of concentrating insight with HR or relying on managers to relay it, Eletive distributes data to everyone. The result is that engagement becomes a shared responsibility rather than a process owned by one team.

This distinction matters most in organisations where the workforce spans multiple countries, languages, and job types. If your teams include shift workers, retail staff, or anyone without a company laptop, a platform that only serves desk-based employees is measuring an incomplete picture.

Key features

Real-time pulse surveys with flexible cadence

Lattice offers engagement surveys as a paid add-on. 15Five includes them from the Engage tier but follows a standard template. Eletive's real-time pulse surveys are built on a scientifically validated question battery and can run on any cadence from annual to biweekly. Results are benchmarkable against millions of responses in Eletive's global database, and you can layer in fully custom surveys for specific teams or moments without disrupting your core measurement.

Employee dashboards that create accountability

On Lattice, engagement data flows to HR. On 15Five, it flows to managers. In both cases, employees submit feedback and wait for someone else to interpret it.

Eletive gives every employee an individual dashboard with their own engagement trends and automated, personalised recommendations. Someone whose sense of autonomy has dropped over two survey cycles gets specific guidance immediately, rather than discovering the issue in a review months later.

Practical manager tools informed by team data

15Five's Kona AI offers real-time coaching during meetings. Lattice provides structured agendas and review templates. Eletive complements these approaches with something neither offers: manager tools that are directly informed by team-level engagement data.

Shared agendas and notes for 1:1s, private notes for personal tracking, and meeting templates are all available. But the difference is that suggestions come from what the data shows, not from a generic coaching framework.

AI that processes feedback at scale

15Five's Amaya and Kona focus on manager coaching and conversational data access. Lattice AI helps with calibration and review drafting. Eletive's AI analysis is built for a different problem: making sense of qualitative feedback across large organisations. It detects themes and sentiment in open-ended comments, surfaces emerging risks like rising attrition, and turns unstructured text into structured, prioritised action items.

Performance management connected to engagement

Both Lattice and 15Five handle performance reviews and goals. Eletive does too, but with a tighter connection to engagement data. 360-degree feedback, OKR tracking, and 1:1 meeting tools sit alongside survey results. When a manager prepares for a development conversation, they see how engagement has shifted alongside goal progress in a single view.

Anonymous channels for sensitive issues

Neither Lattice nor 15Five provides dedicated anonymous feedback channels. Eletive includes an anonymous chat and a whistleblowing channel that operate separately from the survey system. The AI writing assistant can adjust tone and style to further protect anonymity. Critical reports trigger real-time alerts so they reach the right people immediately.

Genuine frontline and global accessibility

With 40+ languages and a dedicated kiosk mode, Eletive reaches workers who don't have a company email, phone, or desk. Employees enter an assigned code on a shared device to participate. For organisations with blue-collar, retail, healthcare, or logistics workforces, this is the difference between measuring engagement and measuring all of it.

Pricing

Eletive offers three quote-based plans: Essential, Standard, and Professional.

Performance management features (OKRs, 1:1s, 360-degree feedback) and HRIS integrations are available as add-ons.

Compared to Lattice's modular pricing, which can exceed $22 per user per month for a full suite, Eletive lets you start with engagement and expand into performance as your needs grow. A free trial is available with no credit card required.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Every employee gets their own dashboard with personalised engagement data and recommendations

• 40+ languages and kiosk mode include frontline and deskless workers by default

• Anonymous chat and whistleblowing channels create safe reporting paths that neither competitor offers

• AI processes qualitative feedback into prioritised actions, surfacing risks before they escalate

• Scientifically validated methodology with global benchmarking

• Survey cadence is fully flexible, from annual to biweekly

Cons

• Pricing is not publicly listed, so early budgeting requires a consultation

• Not suited for organisations under 100 employees

Lattice vs. 15Five vs. Eletive: Feature comparison

Why do people choose Eletive?

Performance conversations grounded in real data

Lattice and 15Five both support 1:1s and reviews. Eletive adds a layer neither provides: engagement data that flows directly into those conversations. Managers see how their team feels alongside how their team is performing, in one view.

Every employee is an active participant

On Lattice, engagement data reaches HR. On 15Five, it reaches managers. On Eletive, it reaches everyone. Individual dashboards give employees ownership of their own engagement, turning performance management into a shared effort rather than a top-down process.

Frontline teams are counted, not estimated

Kiosk mode, 40+ languages, and mobile access mean Eletive captures data from parts of the workforce that Lattice and 15Five simply cannot reach. Factory floors, retail stores, and logistics hubs are included without workarounds.

Feedback leads to visible follow-through

Eletive's structured action planning at individual, team, and organisational levels ensures that survey results produce documented commitments with owners, timelines, and progress tracking. Employees see that their input leads to change, which sustains participation over time.

Risk surfaces early

Real-time alerts, attrition prediction, and AI-powered theme detection help HR and managers spot warning signs before they become resignations. Anonymous chat and whistleblowing channels provide a safety net for issues that employees wouldn't raise in a standard survey.

Pick the platform that matches how your organisation actually works

Lattice and 15Five are reliable tools for managing performance processes. But if your organisation needs real-time insight, inclusive participation across global and frontline teams, and a platform that turns feedback into visible action, Eletive is the stronger choice.

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