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Index › Vendors › PayScale/Payfactors · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

PayScale/Payfactors

4Judge labels

0First choices

4Negative 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

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. PayScale/Payfactors was named 1 time in Compensation management, where Pave led with 18%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business122 of 144

under the label threshold

Mid-market171 of 189

under the label threshold

Enterprise138 of 144

under the label threshold

In compensation management · 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 PayScale/Payfactors 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 management	Compensation and total rewards	0%	171 of 189	100%	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 PayScale/Payfactors 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 PayScale/Payfactors across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Negative	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	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative3 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.

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.

“Avoid enterprise platforms like PayScale/Payfactors, Xactly, or Workday unless you have a real budget” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compensation management · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as PayScale/Payfactors, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PayScale/Payfactors was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Pave4 of 41Not in the top three

beqom3 of 41Not in the top three

Salary.com3 of 40Not in the top three

Xactly3 of 40Not in the top three

Comprehensive2 of 41Not in the top three

Ravio2 of 41Not in the top three

HRSoft2 of 40Not in the top three

Lattice2 of 40Not in the top three

Lattice Compensate2 of 40Not in the top three

Payscale2 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 PayScale/Payfactors. 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 PayScale/Payfactors and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

firsthr.app3

g2.com3

learn.g2.com3

ravio.com3

bestrecruitingtools.com2

bettercomp.com2

capterra.com2

comprehensive.io2

everstage.com2

getstello.ai2

Twenty-four of the twenty-four domain citations in answers naming PayScale/Payfactors came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

firsthr.app/compare/payroll/compensation-management-tools3

learn.g2.com/best-compensation-management-software3

bestrecruitingtools.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software-enterprise-20262

bettercomp.com/blog/best-enterprise-compensation-management-software-20262

comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-management-software2

quotapath.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software2

ravio.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software2

99businessideas.com/best-microtasking-platforms1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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