Every category where a model named Korn Ferry 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%	129 of 144	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by Payscale at 24%

Movement

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

Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	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 labels1

Paraphrase6 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“excellent, but typically more expensive and better suited to larger or more mature comp functions” GPT-5.4 mini · Compensation benchmarkin · budget prompt · soft negative

“The "Big Three" (WTW, Mercer, Korn Ferry) ... Risk: Very high cost and clunky technology.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Korn Ferry, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Korn Ferry was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Mercer20 of 297Not in the top three

Radford16 of 295Not in the top three

Willis Towers Watson14 of 292Not in the top three

Pave13 of 294Not in the top three

Ravio11 of 291Not in the top three

Payscale10 of 291Not in the top three

Salary.com7 of 290Not in the top three

SHL6 of 292Not in the top three

Criteria Corp5 of 291Not in the top three

Culpepper5 of 290Not 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 Korn Ferry. 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 23 of the 29 answers that named Korn Ferry and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ravio.com17

salarycube.com10

bestrecruitingtools.com9

ficstar.com9

imercer.com7

captivateiq.com6

pin.com6

compensation-iq.com5

comprehensive.io5

g2.com4

Seventy-eight of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming Korn Ferry came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ravio.com/blog/compensation-benchmarking-companies13

ravio.com/blog/salary-survey-providers11

ficstar.com/best-compensation-benchmarking-data-providers-20269

ravio.com/blog/the-best-tools-for-salary-benchmarking9

captivateiq.com/blog/compensation-benchmarking-software6

salarycube.com/compensation/salary-survey-providers6

bestrecruitingtools.com/blog/best-pre-employment-assessment-software-enterprise-20265

compensation-iq.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-salary-benchmarking-survey-providers5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 Korn Ferry'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 Korn Ferry, 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 kornferry.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.