Pave vs Salary.com
Two of twelve models named Pave first on the direct prompt; zero named Salary.com. Pave was named by eleven of the twelve models and Salary.com by nine and Pave carries 25 labels and Salary.com 16, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in three categories this edition.
Named in three categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the compensation benchmarking data page.
By framing
PaveFirst choices, of twelve modelsSalary.com
Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Pave and Salary.com were named in the same answer seventy-one times, of the 213 answers naming Pave and the 141 naming Salary.com. In those answers Salary.com took the first choice three times and Pave thirty-eight.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | ||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | ||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | | ||||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | ||||
| Mistral Small | | | ||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | ||||
| Llama 4 Maverick | | |||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | ||
| Kimi K2 | | |||||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | ||||
| MiniMax M2.5 | |
Pave Salary.com first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Pave on the left and Salary.com on the right.The direct prompt
Pave first, Salary.com an alternative
2 of 12 modelsSalary.com was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
4 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Pave32%#1 of 10Salary.com6%#3 of 10What the models said about Pave
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“Use modern, integration-based salary benchmarking software that pulls live, anonymized data directly from HR and payroll systems (e.g., Pave, Ravio, or Figures)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · first choice
“Start with Pave's free Market Data Lite (if you're under 200 employees) — it's the most accessible, current, and comprehensive free option.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
What the models said about Salary.com
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.
“Best all-around for mid-sized companies: Compdata Max / Salary.com” Perplexity Sonar · paraphrase prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.