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Comprehensive

93Judge labels
24First choices
2Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
15% in Compensation management for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 189 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 49 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In compensation management · 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 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 managementCompensation and total rewards15%2 of 1890%49accepted challenger
Compensation benchmarking dataCompensation and total rewards0%99 of 1440%1under 10 labels · led by Payscale at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Comprehensive 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 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 Flash03205
Perplexity Sonar21104
Grok 4.1 Fast35008
Mistral Small11103
DeepSeek V4 Flash22206
Llama 4 Maverick10304
Qwen 3.7 Flash00101
Kimi K222206
GLM 4.7 FlashX22105
MiniMax M2.531105

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
Direct14 labels4
Paraphrase11 labels7
Comparative27 labels6not counted in share
Budget-constrained16 labels5
Scale-constrained19 labels8
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative93 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 30 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.

“Comprehensive: Best all-in-one platform for replacing spreadsheets with custom, scalable compensation workflows. Suitable for companies with 100 to 2,000 employees.” Llama 4 Maverick · Compensation management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Choose Comprehensive if you want the best balance of flexibility, speed, and mid-market fit without going enterprise-heavy.” Perplexity Sonar · Compensation management · direct prompt · first choice
“Highly recommended for mid-sized teams, offering dedicated compensation planning with budget controls and structured approvals.” Mistral Small · Compensation management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“For your size range (200-500 employees), analysts commonly recommend: - Comprehensive – Strong workflows and manager UX” MiniMax M2.5 · Compensation management · scale 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, over the 71 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Comprehensive was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Pave57 of 7122Compare →
BambooHR31 of 717Not in the top three
Ravio30 of 712Not in the top three
beqom28 of 712Not in the top three
QuotaPath25 of 717Not in the top three
Salary.com23 of 712Not in the top three
Salary.com CompAnalyst21 of 713Not in the top three
CaptivateIQ21 of 712Not in the top three
Payscale20 of 710Not 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. 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 63 of the 71 answers that named Comprehensive and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comprehensive.ioYour site57
gartner.com44
hibob.com40
learn.g2.com34
ravio.com32
peoplemanagingpeople.com26
deel.com25
firsthr.app25
g2.com24
guideflow.com22

272 of the 329 domain citations in answers naming Comprehensive came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 comprehensive.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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