Honest comparison
Lattice vs Culture Amp: which HR platform fits your team?
Lattice leads on integrated performance — 360 reviews, OKR cascading, competency matrices, priced per user per month. Culture Amp leads on enterprise engagement-survey science + multi-year benchmarks across thousands of organisations. JobCannon Team at $79/mo flat is the adjacent L&D + validated-assessments layer for development conversations neither tool covers deeply.
In Brief
Lattice and Culture Amp both serve HR but compete from different starting points. Lattice is the integrated-performance leader — 360 reviews, OKR cascading from CEO to IC, competency matrices for promotion decisions are the product centre, priced per user per month and scaling with headcount. Strongest use case: HR teams that want a single platform where performance data feeds promotion and compensation. Culture Amp is the engagement-survey leader — multi-year benchmark data across thousands of organisations, validated I-O psychology question banks for engagement, DEI, onboarding, and exit surveys, structured action-planning workflow. Strongest use case: HR teams that treat employee listening as a research programme with benchmark comparability against peers. JobCannon Team tier at $79/mo flat ($790/year) sits adjacent as the L&D and validated-assessments layer — 112 validated assessments including Big Five, DISC, MBTI, Enneagram, EQ, Conflict Styles, Multiple Intelligences, and Skills Audit — purpose-built for coach-led one-on-ones, manager development, team workshops, and L&D programmes that performance and engagement tools rarely ship deeply. Pick Lattice for integrated performance + OKRs, Culture Amp for engagement-survey science + benchmarks, JobCannon Team as the adjacent development layer.
Four dimensions that separate the platforms
Where Lattice, Culture Amp, and JobCannon Team diverge.
Assessment battery comparison
What ships in each platform for HR and L&D — JobCannon is complementary to performance + engagement tools.
Pricing comparison for a 100-person company per year
Lattice per-user versus Culture Amp per-employee versus JobCannon flat — three structurally different cost shapes.
When to pick Lattice vs Culture Amp vs JobCannon Team
A flat-rate L&D layer alongside per-user performance + per-employee engagement
JobCannon Team at $790/year is not a Lattice or Culture Amp replacement — it is the L&D and team-development layer that runs alongside performance reviews and engagement surveys. HR teams typically keep their incumbent stack and add JobCannon Team for validated-assessments depth.
Free
For micro-teams trying the platform
- ▸10 candidate invites/month (resets the 1st of each month)
- ▸All 166+ assessments
- ▸Premium result for every candidate you invite
- ▸Every candidate profile fully open — nothing blurred
- ▸Share link via email or Slack
- ▸Free trial of the coordinator dashboard
Starter
For solo coaches and small HR
- ▸30 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸All 166+ assessments
- ▸Premium report (archetype + blind spots + work-style brief)
- ▸Coach notes per candidate
- ▸PDF export (client-ready)
- ▸Session prep recommendations
- ▸Candidate progress tracking
Team
For startups, teams and HR
- ▸80 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Starter
- ▸Team DNA dashboard
- ▸Compatibility matrix
- ▸Conflict-pattern detection
- ▸Compare 2-3 team members
- ▸Manager prep briefings
- ▸Shared admin access (2 seats)
Scale
For agencies, L&D and scale-ups
- ▸200 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Team
- ▸Integrity + social-desirability scales (fake-good detection)
- ▸White-label PDFs (your logo)
- ▸Full assessment API (start, score, retrieve results)
- ▸Custom assessment builder (beta)
- ▸Admin seats not billed per seat
- ▸Priority email support
Growth
For high-volume screening without a contract
- ▸1,000 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸Invoice / PO billing, not just card
- ▸Named support contact with a response-time target
- ▸Annual billing option
Enterprise
For 200+ person companies
- ▸Candidate volume set in your contract, all assessments
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸SLA (99.9% uptime)
- ▸Dedicated Customer Success
- ▸Custom integrations built against your tenant (Greenhouse and Ashby ship today)
- ▸Annual billing, invoice payments
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Lattice and Culture Amp solve different HR problems, even though they overlap on engagement surveys. Lattice is performance-management-first — 360 reviews, OKR cascading from CEO to IC, competency matrices for promotion decisions, and goal alignment are the product centre. HR teams pick Lattice when structured review cycles and OKR alignment drive the people-operations roadmap. Culture Amp is engagement-survey-first — its core value is enterprise-grade survey methodology, multi-year benchmark data across thousands of organisations, and the I-O psychology research backing question banks for engagement, DEI, onboarding, and exit surveys. HR teams pick Culture Amp when employee-listening depth and benchmark comparability drive the work. Both have layered the other side over time (Lattice ships engagement pulse; Culture Amp ships Perform), but neither matches the depth of the other in its non-core surface.
Lattice publishes Performance Management tier pricing per user per month, with higher-tier Engagement and Grow bundles priced higher still; that recurs and scales with headcount. Culture Amp prices per employee per year for the Engagement product depending on company size, with the full Engage+Perform+Develop platform pushing per-employee cost higher; enterprise deals are negotiated and typically include implementation fees on top. Both price per employee, so cost scales with company size at either vendor. JobCannon Team at $79/mo flat ($790/year) is structurally adjacent — not a performance or engagement-survey replacement, but the L&D and validated-assessments layer alongside either incumbent.
Both are evidence-backed and the choice depends on what your HR team measures and acts on. Lattice’s integrated-performance philosophy aligns with HR teams that want a single platform for reviews, OKRs, check-ins, and engagement pulse where the data feeds promotion and compensation decisions; the trade-off is that engagement-survey depth and benchmarks are lighter than category specialists. Culture Amp’s engagement-survey-science philosophy aligns with HR teams that treat employee listening as a structured research programme — multi-year cohort benchmarks, validated I-O question banks, and the ability to compare your engagement scores against thousands of peer organisations; the trade-off is performance management depth is lighter than category specialists. Large HR functions often run both — Culture Amp for the survey programme and Lattice for the performance surface — because each is best-in-class in its core lane.
JobCannon Team tier at $79/mo flat ($790/year) sits adjacent to both as the L&D, team-development, and validated-assessments layer. Performance tools (Lattice) cover reviews, OKRs, calibration; engagement tools (Culture Amp) cover surveys, benchmarks, action planning. What neither typically ships deeply is validated personality, cognitive, and team-dynamics assessment for development conversations — Big Five, DISC, MBTI, Enneagram, EQ, Conflict Styles, Multiple Intelligences, Skills Audit. JobCannon Team covers 112 validated assessments at flat-rate cost — purpose-built for coach-led one-on-ones, manager development, team workshops, and L&D programmes that performance and engagement tools support but do not fill. Many HR teams run Lattice or Culture Amp on the engagement+performance surface and add JobCannon Team for the development surface.
JobCannon Team is not a Lattice or Culture Amp replacement. It does not ship review cycles, OKR cascading, engagement-pulse surveys, benchmark comparability, or action-planning workflow — those are real specialist features each incumbent has invested years building. JobCannon Team covers the L&D and team-development layer alongside performance and engagement tools rather than instead of them. The structural argument for adding JobCannon Team: 112 validated assessments at $79/mo flat covers manager development, team workshops, conflict resolution support, and individual development plans with assessment data that performance and engagement tools alone do not generate. For an HR team that wants performance + engagement + L&D in one tool, neither category-leader currently ships that combined surface; running performance or engagement + JobCannon Team is the working pattern.