Zero of twelve models named Salary.com CompAnalyst first on the direct prompt; zero named Ravio. Salary.com CompAnalyst was named by seven of the twelve models and Ravio by eleven and Salary.com CompAnalyst carries 16 labels and Ravio 28, 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 management page.
Across every category in the September 2026 Edition, Salary.com CompAnalyst and Ravio were named in the same answer twenty-seven times, of the 63 answers naming Salary.com CompAnalyst and the 128 naming Ravio. In those answers Ravio took the first choice six times and Salary.com CompAnalyst four.
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
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| 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 |
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.
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.
“Salary.com CompAnalyst is often recommended as the best compensation management software for companies with a limited budget” Mistral Small · budget prompt · first choice
“The best compensation management software for a company with a limited budget is Salary.com CompAnalyst for market data.” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice
“Choose Empxtrack for process management or Salary.com CompAnalyst purely for data benchmarking.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“Ravio is mentioned as being suitable for global tech companies, but not for companies with few tech roles” Llama 4 Maverick · negative prompt · soft negative
“Pave, Comprehensive, and Ravio all offer free tiers for small teams” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd start with Pave/Ravio/Comprehensive free tiers” DeepSeek V4 Flash · budget 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.