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1 category · Named, not ranked

Ficstar

4Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

2 of 12Models named it

1Category

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

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Ficstar was named 2 times in Compensation benchmarkin, 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 businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market38 of 144

under the label threshold

Enterprise41 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 Ficstar 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%	38 of 144	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Payscale at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Ficstar 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 Ficstar 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	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1
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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 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.

“For niche or competitor-specific data, Ficstar can be a valuable supplement.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Compensation benchmarkin · direct prompt · alternative

“worth considering custom data collection providers like Ficstar” Llama 4 Maverick · Compensation benchmarkin · 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 Ficstar, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ficstar was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Mercer3 of 42Not in the top three

Pave2 of 42Not in the top three

Willis Towers Watson2 of 41Not in the top three

Korn Ferry2 of 40Not in the top three

Ravio2 of 40Not in the top three

Salary.com CompAnalyst2 of 40Not in the top three

BLS OEWS1 of 41Not in the top three

Comprehensive.io1 of 41Not in the top three

15Five1 of 40Not in the top three

Aon1 of 40Not 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 Ficstar. 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 4 of the 4 answers that named Ficstar and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ficstar.comYour site4

ravio.com4

compensation-iq.com2

imercer.com2

wtwco.com2

bestrecruitingtools.com1

captivateiq.com1

complogix.io1

comprehensive.io1

comptool.com1

Fifteen of the nineteen domain citations in answers naming Ficstar came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ficstar.com/best-compensation-benchmarking-data-providers-20264

ravio.com/blog/compensation-benchmarking-companies4

ravio.com/blog/salary-survey-providers3

compensation-iq.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-salary-benchmarking-survey-providers2

bestrecruitingtools.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software-enterprise-20261

captivateiq.com/blog/compensation-benchmarking-software1

complogix.io/blog/compensation-analysis-tools1

comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-management-software1

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 ficstar.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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