Every category where a model named Salary.com CompAnalyst 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	5%	7 of 189	0%	16	accepted challenger
Compensation benchmarking data	Compensation and total rewards	0%	27 of 144	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Payscale at 24%
Pay equity	Compensation and total rewards	0%	45 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 Salary.com CompAnalyst 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 Salary.com CompAnalyst across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	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	1	1	1	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	1	3
Mistral Small	1	1	2	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	2	0	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	2	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	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

Direct12 labels2

Paraphrase9 labels2

Comparative20 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained24 labels8

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative5 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative73 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 16 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.

“Salary.com CompAnalyst is often recommended as the best compensation management software for companies with a limited budget” Mistral Small · Compensation management · budget prompt · first choice

“The best compensation management software for a company with a limited budget is Salary.com CompAnalyst for market data.” Llama 4 Maverick · Compensation management · budget prompt · first choice

“Choose Empxtrack for process management or Salary.com CompAnalyst purely for data benchmarking.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation management · budget prompt · first choice

“is Salary.com CompAnalyst for market data. It is considered the best for budget-conscious companies.” Llama 4 Maverick · Compensation management · budget prompt · first choice

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 Salary.com CompAnalyst, over the 63 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Salary.com CompAnalyst was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Pave44 of 6330Not in the top three

Ravio27 of 636Not in the top three

BambooHR25 of 631Not in the top three

Payscale22 of 630Not in the top three

Comprehensive21 of 639Not in the top three

beqom17 of 636Not in the top three

QuotaPath15 of 633Not in the top three

Comprehensive.io14 of 631Not in the top three

Salary.com14 of 630Not in the top three

CaptivateIQ13 of 631Not 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 Salary.com CompAnalyst. 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 61 of the 63 answers that named Salary.com CompAnalyst and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

comprehensive.io46

gartner.com36

hibob.com33

learn.g2.com32

g2.com28

ravio.com27

firsthr.app26

worldmetrics.org26

salary.comYour site22

fitsmallbusiness.com20

274 of the 296 domain citations in answers naming Salary.com CompAnalyst came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-management-software41

gartner.com/reviews/market/compensation-management-software33

hibob.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software33

learn.g2.com/best-compensation-management-software31

firsthr.app/compare/payroll/compensation-management-tools26

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-compensation-management-software16

fitsmallbusiness.com/best-compensation-management-software12

quotapath.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Salary.com CompAnalyst

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Salary.com CompAnalyst; a claim can dispute any of them.

Salary.com / CompAnalyst 1

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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 salary.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.