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Index › Vendors › Option Impact · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Option Impact

8Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

6 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.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Option Impact was named 4 times in Compensation benchmarkin and 1 other category, 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 business118 of 170

under the label threshold

Mid-market34 of 144

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Option Impact 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%	34 of 144	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Payscale at 24%
Compensation management	Compensation and total rewards	0%	77 of 189	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 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.

“Prioritize platforms that use verified employer-reported data (such as Option Impact, Pave, Ravio, or WTW/Radford)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · negative prompt · alternative

“real-time API integrations like Pave, Figures, Ravio, or Option Impact” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · scale prompt · alternative

“Tech-First / Specialized Platforms (Radford, Pave, CompAnalyst, Option Impact)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · scale 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 Option Impact, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Option Impact was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Pave5 of 82Not in the top three

Payscale5 of 81Not in the top three

Glassdoor5 of 80Not in the top three

Mercer4 of 80Not in the top three

Radford4 of 80Not in the top three

Ravio4 of 80Not in the top three

WTW3 of 80Not in the top three

CaptivateIQ2 of 80Not in the top three

CompAnalyst2 of 80Not in the top three

Figures2 of 80Not 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 Option Impact. 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 2 of the 8 answers that named Option Impact and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cakeas.com2

fitsmallbusiness.com2

hrpaypick.com2

payscale.com2

ravio.com2

reddit.com2

bestsalesteamtraining.com1

blog.salescookie.com1

compensation-iq.com1

comptool.com1

Sixteen of the sixteen domain citations in answers naming Option Impact came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cakeas.com/compensation-survey-providers2

fitsmallbusiness.com/salary-comparison-tools2

hrpaypick.com/salary-benchmarking-small-business2

ravio.com/blog/compensation-benchmarking-companies2

reddit.com/r/humanresources/comments/1emmlut/help_i_am_looking_for_a_benchmarking_and2

reddit.com/r/humanresources/comments/oxc8yk/recommendations_for_compensation_data_for_a_sm2

reddit.com/r/humanresources/comments/v3erel/comp_data_for_freecheap2

bestsalesteamtraining.com/guides/compensation-design-smb1

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

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