Every category where a model named Levels.fyi 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%	142 of 144	67%	6	under 10 labels · led by Payscale at 24%
Compensation management	Compensation and total rewards	0%	165 of 189	60%	5	under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%
Job advertising and distribution	Talent acquisition	0%	64 of 109	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by JobTarget at 21%
Pay equity	Compensation and total rewards	0%	40 of 60	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Syndio at 17%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	2	2
Mistral Small	0	0	2	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	1	1	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1

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

Direct3 labels1

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained14 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Use platforms like Levels.fyi for tech roles (more specialized/accurate)” Kimi K2 · Compensation management · negative prompt · alternative

“Starts around $800/month ... this is the next best reliable source” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · budget prompt · alternative

“Comprehensive.io / Levels.fyi — Free tech compensation data” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Pay equity · 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.

“Aggregators (Glassdoor, LinkedIn, Levels.fyi) ... Do not use them for making concrete compensation decisions” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · scale prompt · hard negative

“This data often inflates compensation expectations and may not reflect the full compensation package” Mistral Small · Compensation management · negative prompt · soft negative

“crowdsourced ones are unreliable; Self-reported data is biased ... unverified, and often inaccurate” Grok 4.1 Fast · Compensation management · negative prompt · soft negative

“more accurate than pure crowd-sourced (e.g., Levels.fyi free for tech but unverified)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Compensation benchmarkin · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Levels.fyi, over the 27 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Levels.fyi was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Pave20 of 2714Not in the top three

Ravio17 of 272Not in the top three

Payscale16 of 272Not in the top three

Glassdoor16 of 270Not in the top three

Comprehensive.io14 of 274Not in the top three

Mercer12 of 270Not in the top three

Salary.com9 of 270Not in the top three

Radford8 of 270Not in the top three

Salary.com CompAnalyst6 of 271Not in the top three

Figures6 of 270Not 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 Levels.fyi. 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 24 of the 27 answers that named Levels.fyi and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ravio.com19

comprehensive.io12

pin.com12

fitsmallbusiness.com10

pave.com9

firsthr.app8

g2.com8

hrpaypick.com7

salary.com7

ficstar.com6

Ninety-eight of the ninety-eight domain citations in answers naming Levels.fyi came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ravio.com/blog/the-best-tools-for-salary-benchmarking14

pin.com/blog/salary-benchmarking-tools12

comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-benchmarking-data-sources10

fitsmallbusiness.com/salary-comparison-tools9

ravio.com/blog/compensation-benchmarking-companies8

firsthr.app/compare/payroll/compensation-management-tools7

hrpaypick.com/salary-benchmarking-small-business7

ravio.com/blog/free-salary-data7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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