Every category where a model named Xactly 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%	134 of 189	38%	13	criticized challenger

Movement

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

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

Direct13 labelsNone

Paraphrase9 labels1

Comparative11 labelsNone

Budget-constrained7 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative51 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Xactly is a strong fit for mid-size to enterprise companies with dedicated compensation or sales operations teams” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Compensation management · direct prompt · alternative

“strong for mature sales comp programs and broader sales performance management” GPT-5.4 mini · Compensation management · direct prompt · alternative

“Best for Complex Commissions: Xactly” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation management · paraphrase 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

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

“review complaints include slow loading, non-intuitive UI, and consultant-dependence” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compensation management · negative prompt · soft negative

“making it highly SMB-friendly compared to enterprise giants like CaptivateIQ or Xactly” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Xactly, over the 42 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Xactly was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CaptivateIQ29 of 424Not in the top three

beqom28 of 4218Not in the top three

Pave22 of 4210Not in the top three

Workday Compensation19 of 428Not in the top three

Varicent16 of 422Not in the top three

Payscale16 of 420Not in the top three

Salary.com16 of 420Not in the top three

Workday15 of 420Not in the top three

HRSoft14 of 422Not in the top three

QuotaPath13 of 427Not 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 Xactly. 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 31 of the 42 answers that named Xactly and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com22

comprehensive.io20

learn.g2.com17

guideflow.com14

g2.com13

ravio.com13

hibob.com12

peoplemanagingpeople.com12

captivateiq.com11

darwinbox.com11

145 of the 145 domain citations in answers naming Xactly came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-management-software20

gartner.com/reviews/market/compensation-management-software20

learn.g2.com/best-compensation-management-software17

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

guideflow.com/blog/compensation-management-software11

darwinbox.com/blog/8-best-compensation-management-software-enterprises10

peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-compensation-management-software10

bestrecruitingtools.com/blog/best-compensation-management-software-enterprise-20268

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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

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