Kinetry vs Lattice
Lattice and Kinetry solve overlapping problems in structurally different ways. This page says where Lattice is stronger, where the two genuinely differ, and what each claim is based on — checked against public materials on August 13, 2026.
Lattice is a performance-management and people-success platform for HR teams running the full machinery of reviews at scale: customer-authored review cycles with calibration, goals and OKRs, engagement surveys, compensation cycles, succession, and an AI agent that sits in every 1:1. If the job is operating performance management across a mid-size or large company, Lattice is built for exactly that.
Said first, because a comparison that skips this isn't one.
- • Compliance: SOC 2 Type II certified, including SOC 2-certified EU hosting. Kinetry holds no SOC 2 today.
- • Integrations: roughly 26 listed, including bidirectional Workday sync, ADP, BambooHR, Rippling, Okta/Entra SSO, and MCP connectors for AI assistants. Kinetry has none yet — data comes in by CSV.
- • Benchmarks and social proof: Mercer-powered engagement benchmarks by industry, region, and company size, and a G2 profile around 4.7 with several thousand reviews (third-party count, Aug 2026). Kinetry's cross-company benchmarking is gated until enough companies join, and it has no third-party reviews yet.
- • Suite breadth: calibration at scale, compensation management, succession, PIPs — a full HR operating layer Kinetry does not attempt.
The structural differences
Review cycles are customer-authored — each company writes its own questions and competencies, so scores measure what that company asked that quarter. Recurring measurement exists at the org level (engagement pulses), not as a fixed per-person behavior instrument.
A fixed instrument: the same 24 defined behaviors, per named person, re-scored every cycle. Definitions never move, so a March score and an August score are the same yardstick.
Raters come from inside the org (manager, peers, self, upward), plus ad-hoc external feedback on request. There is no scored single-outside-advisor mode.
360 mode — or single-assessor mode, where one outside advisor is the sole recurring scorer of a client team. As of Kinetry's dated July 2026 review, none of the 23 products reviewed offered that mode.
The AI agent captures action items with owners in 1:1s, and Workforce Intelligence connects people strategy to business outcomes at the aggregate level. There is no join from a specific commitment to a specific score's later movement.
The Kept-Commitment Method: each kept or dropped commitment is compared against how that exact behavior moved by the next cycle — stated as preceded, never caused, with published floors.
All contracts bill annually; the published minimum agreement is $4,000/year.
Free for a leader plus 5 rated people; paid plans bill truly monthly with no contract term — no seat minimum on Team, and Business bills a 10-seat floor.
As of August 2026, Lattice prices per product per seat, billed annually only, with a $4,000 minimum annual agreement: Performance $10/seat/mo, Goals & OKRs $8, Engagement $4, with Compensation (+$6) and Grow (+$4) as add-ons — so a Performance-plus-Goals stack lists at $18/seat/mo. No free tier; demos rather than trials.
Kinetry: free for a leader plus 5 rated people, then $12/rated person/mo (Team, no seat minimum) or $19 (Business, 10-seat minimum), billed truly monthly — raters are always free. Full detail on the pricing page.
- • June–July 2026: Lattice shipped Workforce Intelligence (aggregate outcome analytics), an MCP server listed in the Claude/OpenAI/Slack marketplaces, and evidence-based AI review drafts. None of these add a fixed recurring behavior instrument or person-level commitment attribution.
- • Kinetry is not a Lattice replacement for HR operations — it doesn't do reviews, comp, or goals. Teams typically run it as the measurement instrument underneath: behavior scores and coaching attribution feeding whatever performance process already exists.
- • Starting is a CSV of names and a first cycle — no HRIS project. The free tier covers a leader and five rated people indefinitely, so a single team can prove the loop before anyone signs anything.
The wider review this page sits on: in July, 2026 Kinetry reviewed 23 comparable products claim by claim from their public documentation. As of that dated review, none of the 23 offered a recurring single-assessor mode; none offered in-product commitment attribution connecting kept commitments to later score movement (the Kept-Commitment Method) — four had partial elements; and only one offered true month-to-month billing. The full archived table is at How Kinetry compares.
Lattice and every other product named on this page are their owners' trademarks, used here only to identify them; Kinetry is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lattice. Claims about Lattice are based on its public materials as of the dates above and can go stale; if we got something wrong, tell us and we'll fix it. Sources checked: lattice.com/pricing · g2.com/products/lattice (review figures, third-party) · lattice.com/blog/june-2026-product-updates · lattice.com/blog/july-2026-product-updates · lattice.com/integrations · lattice.com/trust/faqs.