Every category where a model named Syndio 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
Pay equity	Compensation and total rewards	17%	1 of 60	19%	36	accepted challenger
Compensation management	Compensation and total rewards	0%	57 of 189	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%
Compensation benchmarking data	Compensation and total rewards	0%	53 of 144	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Payscale at 24%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	2	0	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	2	2	6
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	1	2	1	6
Mistral Small	0	2	1	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	0	1	2	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	0	1	3
Kimi K2	2	2	1	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	1	0	3

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

Direct25 labels13

Paraphrase13 labels8

Comparative40 labels19not counted in share

Budget-constrained22 labels6

Scale-constrained17 labels4

Negative12 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative129 labels in all, every segment counted; 31 of the 54 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.

“### 1. Syndio Best for: Global compliance, continuous governance, and closing the loop between analysis and decision-making.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Pay equity · comparative prompt · first choice

“For most mid-market B2B companies: Syndio is the safest, most defensible choice if your budget allows” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Pay equity · direct prompt · first choice

“If you need audit-ready pay equity compliance and remediation: look at Syndio or Pihr.” GPT-5.4 mini · Pay equity · comparative prompt · first choice

“Prioritize vendors like Syndio, Trusaic, PayParity, Aeqium, or Salary.com... Syndio (global scale)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Pay equity · scale 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.

“When to Avoid Enterprise Tools (Like Syndio or Beqom) ... usually overkill and cost-prohibitive” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Pay equity · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“Enterprise statistical audit giants (such as Syndio and Trusaic) are highly robust, but they generally require custom enterprise contracts, often costing upwards of $10,000 to $50,000+ per year.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Pay equity · budget prompt · soft negative

“Strong methodology but cost-prohibitive (high five figures annually), weak HRIS integration requiring frequent manual uploads... Budget-conscious or smaller teams should think twice.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Pay equity · negative prompt · soft negative

“more realistic than enterprise audit platforms such as Syndio or Trusaic for a tight budget” Perplexity Sonar · Pay equity · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Syndio, over the 126 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Syndio was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Trusaic PayParity74 of 1261Not in the top three

Payscale65 of 1264Compare →

PayAnalytics61 of 1268Compare →

beqom42 of 1266Not in the top three

Aeqium32 of 1262Not in the top three

Pave28 of 12612Not in the top three

Salary.com21 of 1261Not in the top three

Compport21 of 1260Not in the top three

Figures18 of 1260Not in the top three

Gusto16 of 1269Not 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 Syndio. 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 109 of the 126 answers that named Syndio and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com87

peoplemanagingpeople.com79

guideflow.com70

worldmetrics.org56

pay-equity-software.com51

soteriahr.com41

synd.io41

g2.com38

compensationtools.net36

hr.software30

529 of the 529 domain citations in answers naming Syndio came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/pay-equity-software80

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-pay-equity-software73

guideflow.com/blog/pay-equity-software65

pay-equity-software.com/tools48

worldmetrics.org/best/pay-equity-software42

soteriahr.com/pay-equity-analysis-software41

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-ai-pay-equity-software35

compensationtools.net/best-pay-equity-software31

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Syndio

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

Syndio (PayEQ) 3Syndio PayEQ 2

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Syndio's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Syndio, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

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