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Comprehensive.io

61Judge labels
8First choices
2Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
12% in Compensation benchmarkin for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 144 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 12 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
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 Comprehensive.io 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Compensation benchmarking dataCompensation and total rewards12%3 of 1440%12accepted challenger
Compensation managementCompensation and total rewards0%41 of 1890%6under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%
Pay equityCompensation and total rewards0%28 of 600%3under 10 labels · led by Syndio at 17%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Comprehensive.io 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 Comprehensive.io across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.511002
GPT-5.4 mini00101
Gemini 3.5 Flash02002
Perplexity Sonar10001
Grok 4.1 Fast12003
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash02002
Llama 4 Maverick10001
Qwen 3.7 Flash11002
Kimi K211002
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.502103

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 labels2
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative10 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained33 labels6
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative61 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 10 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.

“three free salary benchmarking tools cover most needs at zero cost: Pave (tech roles, under 200 employees), Comprehensive.io (US tech daily data), and BLS OEWS” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Compensation benchmarkin · budget prompt · first choice
“Free daily-refreshed tech salary data from 6,000+ U.S. companies (no participation needed) ... Great for startups/lean teams.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Compensation benchmarkin · budget prompt · first choice
“Pave and Comprehensive.io are currently leading the market for affordable or free options” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · budget prompt · first choice
“If you want one default recommendation, Comprehensive.io is the strongest low-cost option” Perplexity Sonar · Compensation benchmarkin · budget prompt · first choice

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 Comprehensive.io, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Comprehensive.io was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Pave45 of 5629Compare →
Ravio37 of 562Not in the top three
Salary.com15 of 560Not in the top three
Salary.com CompAnalyst14 of 562Not in the top three
BambooHR14 of 561Not in the top three
Mercer14 of 561Not in the top three
Levels.fyi14 of 560Not in the top three
Radford12 of 560Not in the top three
Aeqium9 of 561Not 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 Comprehensive.io. 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 49 of the 56 answers that named Comprehensive.io and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ravio.com35
comprehensive.ioYour site33
pin.com26
fitsmallbusiness.com18
g2.com18
firsthr.app16
gartner.com15
peoplemanagingpeople.com15
ficstar.com13
learn.g2.com13

169 of the 202 domain citations in answers naming Comprehensive.io came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Comprehensive.io

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Comprehensive.io; a claim can dispute any of them.
Comprehensive 2
Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Comprehensive.io's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Comprehensive.io, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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 comprehensive.io 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.

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