Every category where a model named Compease 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	0%	46 of 189	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%

Movement

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

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

Direct9 labels4

Paraphrase6 labels2

Comparative8 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained14 labels7

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative38 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 14 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.

“Compease offers the best balance of features and affordability for small businesses” Kimi K2 · Compensation management · budget prompt · alternative

“Compease for small to medium-sized organizations, especially in financial services” Mistral Small · Compensation management · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“ranked best overall for small businesses in one comparison” Perplexity Sonar · Compensation management · budget prompt · alternative

“Compease is a strong fit for small to mid-sized organizations” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Compensation management · budget 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 Compease, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Compease was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BambooHR22 of 316Not in the top three

Pave16 of 319Not in the top three

Salary.com CompAnalyst12 of 313Not in the top three

Salary.com12 of 311Not in the top three

QuotaPath11 of 315Not in the top three

Comprehensive11 of 313Not in the top three

Paycom10 of 310Not in the top three

Ravio8 of 313Not in the top three

Payscale7 of 312Not in the top three

CaptivateIQ7 of 311Not 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 Compease. 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 30 of the 31 answers that named Compease and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comprehensive.io23

gartner.com23

hibob.com22

g2.com17

learn.g2.com17

fitsmallbusiness.com15

peoplemanagingpeople.com14

bamboohr.com12

firsthr.app11

ravio.com9

163 of the 163 domain citations in answers naming Compease came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-management-software22

hibob.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software22

gartner.com/reviews/market/compensation-management-software21

learn.g2.com/best-compensation-management-software17

fitsmallbusiness.com/best-compensation-management-software13

firsthr.app/compare/payroll/compensation-management-tools11

bamboohr.com/blog/compensation-management-tools10

g2.com/categories/compensation-management/small-business9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Compease

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Compease; a claim can dispute any of them.

Compease by HR Performance Solutions 1

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at compease.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.