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3 categories · Named, not ranked

Carta Total Comp

10Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

3Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Carta Total Comp was named 5 times in Compensation benchmarkin and 2 other categories, where Payscale led with 24%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business38 of 170

under the label threshold

Mid-market49 of 144

under the label threshold

Enterprise55 of 134

under the label threshold

In compensation benchmarkin · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Carta Total Comp 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 benchmarking data	Compensation and total rewards	0%	49 of 144	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Payscale at 24%
Pay equity	Compensation and total rewards	0%	37 of 60	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Syndio at 17%
Compensation management	Compensation and total rewards	0%	68 of 189	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Carta Total Comp 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 Carta Total Comp across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Best For: Startups, Scale-ups, and Private Companies where equity is a major component of compensation.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Compensation management · comparative prompt · alternative

“If you already use Carta for cap table management, Carta Total Comp is a highly convenient add-on.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Carta Total Comp, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Carta Total Comp was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Pave8 of 106Not in the top three

Figures7 of 100Not in the top three

Ravio7 of 100Not in the top three

Payscale6 of 101Not in the top three

Salary.com5 of 101Not in the top three

Comprehensive.io3 of 101Not in the top three

Radford3 of 101Not in the top three

PayAnalytics3 of 100Not in the top three

Compport2 of 100Not in the top three

OpenComp2 of 100Not 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 Carta Total Comp. 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 6 of the 10 answers that named Carta Total Comp and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

peoplemanagingpeople.com4

gartner.com3

pay-equity-software.com3

soteriahr.com3

worldmetrics.org3

affirmity.com2

compensationtools.net2

comprehensive.io2

firsthr.app2

guideflow.com2

Twenty-six of the twenty-six domain citations in answers naming Carta Total Comp came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

pay-equity-software.com/tools3

affirmity.com/software/pay-equity-analysis-software2

compensationtools.net/best-pay-equity-software2

comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-management-software2

firsthr.app/compare/payroll/compensation-management-tools2

gartner.com/reviews/market/pay-equity-software2

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-compensation-management-software2

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-pay-equity-software2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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