Compare your personality with anyone.

See how your personality compares to friends, family, partners, and colleagues across multiple dimensions with TraitLab's Comparisons feature.

Ever wonder how your personality compares to someone else's?

Whether it's a close friend, romantic partner, family member, or colleague, understanding how your personalities align and differ can lead to better communication, stronger relationships, and deeper self-awareness.

TraitLab's Comparisons feature gives you a detailed, side-by-side view of two personalities across multiple scientifically-grounded dimensions.

Five areas of comparison

Every comparison explores your similarities and differences across five distinct areas:

1. Personality Traits

Traits form the foundation of any personality comparison. See how you and another person compare on the Big Five personality traits: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.

Each trait comparison includes a description of how similarities or differences in that trait might play out in everyday interactions.

A screenshot of the Traits comparison in TraitLab
Understand where your personalities align and where they differ.

2. Adjectives

Words paint a powerful picture. The adjectives comparison shows the descriptive words that characterize each person's personality.

See which adjectives you share, which are unique to each person, and how strongly each adjective applies. This gives you a quick, intuitive sense of personality similarities and differences.

A screenshot of the Adjectives comparison in TraitLab
Get an intuitive sense of personality overlap at a glance.

3. Interpersonal Style

Interpersonal Style describes your characteristic pattern of interacting with others and handling conflicts. In the Interpersonal Style comparison, you'll see how your individual styles interact.

Each comparison includes an overview of the differences in your interpersonal styles, followed by a description of potential strengths, potential friction points, and strategies for effective communication.

A screenshot of the Interpersonal Style comparison in TraitLab
Discover how your relationship patterns complement or clash.

4. Strengths

Strengths are the positive qualities you tend to use when you are at your best. In the Strengths comparison, you'll see how you compare to another person across 24 individual strengths and three broad strength dimensions.

After identifying each person's top strengths, TraitLab unpacks how you might complement each other and where your combined strengths would truly shine.

A screenshot of the Strengths comparison in TraitLab
See how your positive qualities complement each other.

5. Working Style

Our interests shape which problems and environments we find interesting and engaging. The Working Style comparison shows your interests overlap and diverge based on six dimensions.

Based on your interests patterns, TraitLab describes how you and your comparison might work together and the types of projects that would fit your combined preferences.

A screenshot of the Working Style comparison in TraitLab
Find common ground for collaboration and teamwork.

Free vs. Plus comparisons

TraitLab offers comparisons for both free and Plus users, with different levels of access:

Free Users

  • Up to 5 comparisons
  • Personality Traits comparison
  • Adjectives, Interpersonal, Strengths, Working Style

TraitLab Plus Recommended

  • Unlimited comparisons
  • Personality Traits comparison
  • Adjectives comparison
  • Interpersonal Style comparison
  • Strengths comparison
  • Working Style comparison

Who can benefit from Comparisons?

  • Couples who want to understand their personality dynamics, find common ground, and navigate differences with empathy.
  • Friends curious about what makes their friendship work and where they might see things differently.
  • Families looking to understand generational differences and improve communication.
  • Colleagues and teams who want to leverage diverse personalities for better collaboration.
  • Coaches and counselors helping clients understand their relationship patterns.

How do I start comparing?

  1. Create your account — Sign up for free and complete enough of the assessment to generate your personality results.
  2. Go to your dashboard — From your TraitLab dashboard, find the Comparisons section to create a new comparison.
  3. Add the other person — Enter the other person's email address or TraitLab username to start a comparison.
  4. See your results instantly — If the other person has a TraitLab account, has answered sufficient questions, and has allowed comparisons, your comparison results will appear instantly.
  5. Explore all five areas — Use the tabs to navigate between Traits, Adjectives, Interpersonal, Strengths, and Working Style comparisons.

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Insights Guaranteed

With the comprehensive results in TraitLab Plus, you're bound to learn something new about yourself.

In fact, if you don't have at least one "A-ha!" moment — one new insight about yourself and your personality within 7 days of your purchase — you'll get a full refund.

Refunds are limited to first-time purchases only.

Frequently asked questions

To compare your personality with someone else, find the Comparisons input on your TraitLab dashboard.

Search for other users by email or username. If the other person has a TraitLab account, has a complete profile, and has allowed comparisons, you'll instantly see a side-by-side comparison of your personalities across multiple dimensions.

By default, comparisons are disabled for all TraitLab users. You can change this in your account settings.

If you want to allow others to compare their personality with yours, make sure the "Allow Comparisons" option is enabled in your account settings. When enabled, other TraitLab users can see how their personality compares to yours when they visit your public profile.

TraitLab compares personalities across five distinct areas:

Personality Traits — See how you compare on the Big Five personality traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) with visual overlapping distributions.

Adjectives — Compare descriptive words that characterize each person's personality, highlighting shared traits and unique characteristics.

Interpersonal Style — See how your communication and relationship patterns compare on the interpersonal circumplex.

Strengths — Compare rankings across 24 character strengths and see how your strengths archetypes complement each other.

Working Style — Compare career interests across the six RIASEC dimensions to understand work style compatibility.

TraitLab is an online personality assessment platform that provides detailed, research-backed insights into your personality traits, strengths, and interests.

TraitLab helps individuals understand themselves better and make informed decisions about personal development, relationships, and career paths.

TraitLab uses scientifically validated questions from decades of psychological research to create a comprehensive profile of your personality, strengths, and interests.

After completing the assessment, you'll receive detailed reports about several aspects of your personality and how they influence different areas of your life.

You can sign up for a free account to complete the personality assessment and access some of your results. Unlocking the full results requires purchasing the paid version, TraitLab Plus.

TraitLab Plus includes seven detailed reports: Personality Traits, Strengths, Career Interests and Matches, Interpersonal Style, Personality Wordcloud, 16 Personality Typology, and Enneagram Typology.

Most people will start seeing their first results after about 10 minutes (about 100 questions).

If you want to see every possible result from TraitLab, the full assessment can take anywhere from 30-90 minutes. However, you can always save your progress and take the assessment across several sittings.

Most popular online personality tests suffer from poor reliability and validity, meaning your results will be inaccurate and inconsistent over time.

TraitLab prioritizes high accuracy, reliability, and validity over speed. TraitLab achieves this through asking several rounds of questions about increasingly nuanced aspects of your personality. Each round increases reliability and removes error and noise from your personality profile.

Yes! With TraitLab Plus, users can reset their profiles and retake the full assessment every 30 days.

Yes! All TraitLab accounts (free and paid) include a public profile for sharing your personality insights with others.

Yes! All TraitLab accounts (free and paid) can print their results or save them as a PDF for easy sharing and offline access. To access your printable profile, view your results on a desktop or laptop display and click the 'Print Profile' button at the top of the page. This will take you to a printable version of your results that can be printed or saved as a PDF. Want to see more? View a sample printed report.

TraitLab Plus is a one-time payment that grants lifetime access to the full TraitLab assessment and results. There is no subscription service, and there are no recurring fees or payments.

Yes! If you purchase TraitLab Plus and aren't happy, you can receive a full refund by contacting support@traitlab.com within 7 days of your purchase. Refunds are limited to first-time purchases only.

With your free TraitLab account you can purchase invite codes for clients, teammates, and anyone else you think might benefit from TraitLab.

TraitLab’s assessments are based on peer-reviewed research and validated psychological methods. While no test is perfect, TraitLab provides a highly accurate and nuanced understanding of your personality compared to most online tests.

Unlike many popular personality tests, TraitLab was designed by a research Ph.D., based on the tools and techniques used in modern personality science.

TraitLab goes beyond surface-level descriptions and offers a more advanced, detailed, and quantitative analysis of your personality, strengths, and interests.

Yes! TraitLab prioritizes your privacy. Your responses are stored securely, and TraitLab does not share data with any other services. You are the only person who decides whether to share your results with others.

Yes! You can delete your account at any time. In your account settings, you can request an account deletion and your account will be scheduled for deletion after a grace period. If you prefer immediate deletion, simply contact support@traitlab.com.

TraitLab is ideal for adults looking to understand themselves better, explore personal development opportunities, improve relationships, or gain career guidance.

TraitLab is also great for professionals in coaching, counseling, or team-building contexts.

Yes! TraitLab Pro is designed for managers, HR professionals, and coaches using assessments within their organization.

If you want to use TraitLab Pro for your team or company, you can create a TraitLab Pro account or learn more by reading the TraitLab Pro documentation.

Contact support@traitlab.com with any product or support questions.

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