| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401(k) providers | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 78 of 78 | 83% | 6 | under 10 labels · led by Human Interest at 20% |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
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.
“frequently mentioned as among the worst offenders due to their high administrative costs, expensive fund options, and sometimes opaque fee structures” Mistral Small · 401(k) providers · negative prompt · hard negative
“common caution flags in the results include insurance-company-based plans described as expensive by users, and specific providers such as MassMutual” Perplexity Sonar · 401(k) providers · negative prompt · soft negative
“This category would include companies like Principal, John Hancock, Transamerica, MassMutual, and similar insurers.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · 401(k) providers · negative prompt · soft negative
“often flagged by critics for being slow to adapt to modern technology” Qwen 3.7 Flash · 401(k) providers · negative prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 9 of the 10 answers that named MassMutual and are not a share of its labels.
No domain is on file for MassMutual, so its own site is not marked.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
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