Every category where a model named Varicent 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%	62 of 189	33%	6	under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18%

Movement

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

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

Direct9 labels2

Paraphrase4 labels1

Comparative7 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative27 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“best if you need a more enterprise-grade, robust sales performance management suite” GPT-5.4 mini · Compensation management · direct prompt · alternative

“Varicent is a heavy-duty Sales Performance Management (SPM) suite” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · comparative prompt · alternative

“Varicent is also a major contender in the same space” GPT-5.4 mini · Compensation management · direct prompt · alternative

“Sales/commission-only → CaptivateIQ or Varicent” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compensation management · comparative 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.

“Avoid legacy tools designed for enterprises with 5,000+ employees (like *Varicent*, *Xactly*, or *Workday Comp*)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“Built for large enterprises, but often criticized as complex and slow to update.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compensation management · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Varicent, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Varicent was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

beqom18 of 2111Not in the top three

CaptivateIQ18 of 213Not in the top three

Xactly16 of 210Not in the top three

Pave12 of 214Not in the top three

Payscale11 of 210Not in the top three

SAP SuccessFactors11 of 210Not in the top three

HRSoft10 of 212Not in the top three

Workday10 of 211Not in the top three

Workday Compensation9 of 211Not in the top three

Compport8 of 213Not 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 Varicent. 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 12 of the 21 answers that named Varicent and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com10

captivateiq.com8

darwinbox.com8

comprehensive.io7

peoplemanagingpeople.com7

bestrecruitingtools.com6

g2.com5

guideflow.com5

learn.g2.com5

aibusinessgeek.com3

Sixty-four of the sixty-four domain citations in answers naming Varicent came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/compensation-management-software8

comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-management-software7

darwinbox.com/blog/8-best-compensation-management-software-enterprises7

bestrecruitingtools.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software-enterprise-20266

captivateiq.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software6

guideflow.com/blog/compensation-management-software5

learn.g2.com/best-compensation-management-software5

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-compensation-management-software5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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