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Workleap Compensation

20Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

9 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

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Workleap Compensation was named 8 times in Pay equity, where Syndio led with 17%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business26 of 84

under the label threshold

Mid-market11 of 60

under the label threshold

Enterprise43 of 52

under the label threshold

In pay equity · 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 Workleap Compensation 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	2%	11 of 60	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Syndio at 17%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Workleap Compensation 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 Workleap Compensation 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	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	2	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	1

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labels1

Comparative7 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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. Best Overall for North American B2B: Workleap Compensation (formerly Barley)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Pay equity · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“For companies with 50-500 employees on a limited budget, Workleap or HRSoft offer user-friendly, scalable solutions” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Pay equity · budget prompt · alternative

“Best Budget-Friendly Option... At approximately $5/user/month, it is incredibly cost-effective.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Pay equity · direct prompt · alternative

“Best for Seamless HRIS Integration: Workleap Compensation” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Pay equity · budget 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 Workleap Compensation, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workleap Compensation was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Syndio15 of 202Not in the top three

Pave11 of 204Not in the top three

Payscale11 of 202Not in the top three

OpenComp9 of 202Not in the top three

Aeqium7 of 200Not in the top three

SalaryCube7 of 200Not in the top three

Deel6 of 200Not in the top three

PayAnalytics5 of 203Not in the top three

Compport5 of 200Not in the top three

Trusaic PayParity5 of 200Not 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 Workleap Compensation. 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 13 of the 20 answers that named Workleap Compensation and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com12

peoplemanagingpeople.com10

worldmetrics.org9

guideflow.com6

pay-equity-software.com6

wifitalents.com6

soteriahr.com5

candoriq.com4

g2.com4

synd.io4

Sixty-six of the sixty-six domain citations in answers naming Workleap Compensation came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/pay-equity-software11

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-pay-equity-software10

worldmetrics.org/best/pay-equity-software8

guideflow.com/blog/pay-equity-software6

pay-equity-software.com/tools5

soteriahr.com/pay-equity-analysis-software5

wifitalents.com/best/pay-equity-analysis-software5

wifitalents.com/best/pay-equity-software5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Workleap Compensation

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

Workleap 3Workleap Compensation (formerly Barley) 2Workleap / OpenComp 1

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