Every category where a model named CaptivateIQ for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Compensation management	Compensation and total rewards	3%	10 of 189	7%	28	accepted challenger
Compensation benchmarking data	Compensation and total rewards	0%	61 of 144	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Payscale at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CaptivateIQ yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated CaptivateIQ across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	1	2	0	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	4	0	2	8
Perplexity Sonar	0	3	1	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	3	0	3
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	1	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	3	0	3
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct30 labels3

Paraphrase16 labels5

Comparative23 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labelsNone

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative89 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 8 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“CaptivateIQ (Best Overall for Mid-Market Flexibility)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“CaptivateIQ (Best Overall for Mid-Market B2B Sales Ops)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · direct prompt · first choice

“the strongest default pick is usually CaptivateIQ” GPT-5.4 mini · Compensation management · direct prompt · first choice

“If you have complex sales compensation needs, CaptivateIQ is worth considering as a bundled solution.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Compensation benchmarkin · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“making it highly SMB-friendly compared to enterprise giants like CaptivateIQ or Xactly” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · budget prompt · soft negative

“tools (like Spiff or CaptivateIQ) will easily blow past a limited budget” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CaptivateIQ, over the 69 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CaptivateIQ was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Pave42 of 6920Not in the top three

beqom39 of 6920Not in the top three

Payscale30 of 691Not in the top three

Xactly29 of 690Not in the top three

Salary.com28 of 690Not in the top three

QuotaPath25 of 696Not in the top three

Workday Compensation22 of 698Not in the top three

Ravio22 of 693Not in the top three

HRSoft22 of 692Not in the top three

Comprehensive21 of 695Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named CaptivateIQ. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 55 of the 69 answers that named CaptivateIQ and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comprehensive.io41

gartner.com39

learn.g2.com30

g2.com26

hibob.com26

captivateiq.comYour site23

guideflow.com21

ravio.com20

darwinbox.com18

peoplemanagingpeople.com16

237 of the 260 domain citations in answers naming CaptivateIQ came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-management-software41

gartner.com/reviews/market/compensation-management-software36

learn.g2.com/best-compensation-management-software30

hibob.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software26

darwinbox.com/blog/8-best-compensation-management-software-enterprises18

guideflow.com/blog/compensation-management-software16

captivateiq.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software15

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-compensation-management-software15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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