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Pay equity for enterprise buyers

Asked as “pay equity analysis software”, and as “pay transparency compliance tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 43 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing · first-choice share
53%
Clear leader
53Syndio12Trusaic PayParity09beqom Pay Equity26others

53% of first choices, clear leader.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.

The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Syndio53%4%48endorsed leader
02Trusaic PayParity12%0%47accepted challenger
03beqom Pay Equity9%0%36accepted challenger
04Compport7%0%14accepted challenger
05Payscale5%13%23accepted challenger
06PayAnalytics2%0%29accepted challenger
Show the one product at 0%, ordered by negative rate
07Aeqium0%0%11accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.
All twenty-one head-to-head pages: the top seven products, each against each

One product takes 53% of first choices here, so the chart would put six markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. Zero products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category.

What they warned about

Eight of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Mistral Small, Qwen 3.7 Flash and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Workleap Compensation
43%
3 of 7 labels negative · 3 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid for your scale: Smaller tools like Barley ($5/user/month) or Deel lack enterprise depth” Grok 4.20, budget prompt
Payscale
13%
3 of 23 labels negative · 3 of 12 models
“Not as deeply specialized in complex international regulations as Trusaic or Syndio; better suited for US-centric or simpler global operations.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, direct prompt
Deel Compensation/Pay Equity
50%
2 of 4 labels negative · 2 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Avoid for your scale: Smaller tools like Barley ($5/user/month) or Deel lack enterprise depth” Grok 4.20, budget prompt
Pave
67%
2 of 3 labels negative · 2 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Examples to Avoid: Pave, Barley, Equity.com (basic tiers).” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt

What they cite

Twelve of the twelve models returned a source list in this edition: four return the pages they cited and eight the search results they consulted.

Sites the answers cite

68 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1056 links across 191 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

vendor site · Guideflow47 answers · 53 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Gartner41 answers · 54 citations · 10 models
41 answers · 54 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Trusaic38 answers · 70 citations · 11 models
32 answers · 49 citations · 9 models
27 answers · 42 citations · 9 models
26 answers · 28 citations · 11 models
vendor site · PayAnalytics24 answers · 30 citations · 10 models
vendor site · G222 answers · 43 citations · 10 models
vendor site · beqom22 answers · 31 citations · 9 models
19 answers · 29 citations · 8 models
18 answers · 25 citations · 8 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

Search against answers

Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best pay equity analysis software”, “pay equity analysis software”, “pay equity tools”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Company and productsShareOwn site citedName searches, GoogleAI search demand, est.Organic visitsPaid search a month, est.Google ads, last 30 daysBest Google position
Syndio synd.io53%1461,000154
Trusaic trusaic.com
Trusaic PayParity 12%
12%1274,187 company103
beqom Pay Equity beqom.com9%681009,491114
Compport compport.com7%3511012,146
Payscale payscale.com5%2099,9002991,408,989$2633
PayAnalytics payanalytics.com2%722001,02586
Salary.com Pay Equity salary.com2%6001,069,118$1,642707
ChartHop charthop.com2%3802,900166,2380
EquityPath equitypath.com2%4
Pequity pequity.com2%95903432$1035

Google's top ten for the three searches hold 20 sites; 7 of them are among the sites the models cited here (beqom.com, g2.com, gartner.com, payanalytics.com, peoplemanagingpeople.com, synd.io, trusaic.com). The first result for “best pay equity analysis software” is gartner.com.

How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
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ModelDirect“What is the best pay equity analysis software for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which pay transparency compliance tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade pay equity tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best pay equity analysis software for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a pay equity analysis software. What should we look at?”Negative“Which pay equity tools should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Syndio, Trusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
Two alternativesPayAnalytics, Visier
CompportChanged
Two alternativesTrusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
Syndio
Three alternativesPayAnalytics, Trusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
Syndio
Two alternativesPayAnalytics, Trusaic PayParity
Syndio
Six alternativesCompUp, Compport, PayAnalytics, Trusaic PayParity, Workleap Compensation, beqom Pay Equity
nothing named
GPT-5.4 miniPayscale
Three alternativesTrusaic PayParity, Workday Pay Equity, beqom Pay Equity
against: OpenComp, Salary.com Pay Equity
PayscaleHeld
One alternativeTrusaic PayParity
Syndio
Seven alternativesCompport, Comprehensive.io, PayAnalytics, Payscale, Salary.com Pay Equity, Workday Pay Equity, beqom Pay Equity
Pequity
One alternativeSyndio
no first choicenothing named
Gemini 3.5 FlashSyndio
Three alternativesPayAnalytics, Payscale, Trusaic PayParity
SyndioHeld
Two alternativesTrusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
Syndio
Four alternativesAffirmity, PayAnalytics, Payscale, Trusaic PayParity
Syndio
Two alternativesPihr Pay Equity, Trusaic PayParity
no first choicenothing named
Perplexity Sonarbeqom Pay Equity
Three alternativesCompport, HRSoft, Payscale
beqom Pay EquityHeld
Two alternativesSysarb, Trusaic PayParity
Syndio
Five alternativesAffirmity, Compport, PayAnalytics, Trusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
beqom Pay Equity
Three alternativesPayAnalytics, Payscale / Salary.com, Syndio
no first choicenothing named
Grok 4.20Syndio
Three alternativesPayAnalytics, Payscale, Trusaic PayParity
SyndioHeld
Three alternativesSysarb, Trusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
Syndio
Four alternativesPayAnalytics, Payscale, Trusaic PayParity, Visier
Syndio
Four alternativesCompport, PayAnalytics, Trusaic PayParity, Visier
against: Deel Compensation/Pay Equity, Workleap Compensation
Syndio, Trusaic PayParity
Two alternativesPayscale, Visier
nothing named
Mistral SmallCompport, Syndio
One alternativeStride
Trusaic PayParityChanged
One alternativebeqom Pay Equity
Syndio
Four alternativesAeqium, PayAnalytics, Salary.com Pay Equity, Trusaic PayParity
Pave, Salary.com Pay Equity
One alternativeSyndio
no first choicenothing named
DeepSeek V4 FlashSyndio
Two alternativesPayAnalytics, Trusaic PayParity
against: Payscale
SyndioHeld
Three alternativesSysarb, Trusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
Syndio, Trusaic PayParity
Three alternativesPayAnalytics, Payscale, beqom Pay Equity
PayAnalytics, Syndio
Two alternativesTrusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
no first choicenothing named
Llama 4 Maverickno first choiceno first choiceHeldno first choiceno first choiceno first choice
Three alternativesAssemble, PayAnalytics, Trusaic PayParity
nothing named
Qwen 3.7 FlashCompport
Two alternativesPayscale, Remedyset
against: SAP SuccessFactors, Workday Pay Equity
SyndioChanged
Two alternativesTrusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
Syndio, Trusaic PayParity
Three alternativesAeqium, PayAnalytics, Payscale
ChartHopagainst: Orbiq, PayEquity.ai, Syndiono first choiceagainst: Equity.com, Oracle HCM Cloud, Pave, Payscale, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday Pay Equity, Workleap Compensation
Kimi K2Syndio
Two alternativesPayscale, Trusaic PayParity
SyndioHeld
Two alternativesTrusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
Syndio
Four alternativesPayAnalytics, Payscale, Trusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
Syndio
One alternativebeqom Pay Equity
against: Payscale
Syndio, Trusaic PayParity
Two alternativesAeqium, Payscale
against: ADP DataCloud, Pave, SAP SuccessFactors, Syndio, Workday Pay Equity, Workleap Compensation
GLM 4.7 FlashXSyndio
Two alternativesPayAnalytics, beqom Pay Equity
SyndioHeld
Three alternativesTrusaic PayParity, Workday Pay Equity, beqom Pay Equity
PayAnalytics, Syndio
Six alternativesAeqium, Affirmity, Payscale, Trusaic PayParity, Visier, beqom Pay Equity
EquityPath
One alternativeTrusaic PayParity
against: Deel Compensation/Pay Equity
no first choicenothing named
MiniMax M2.5no first choiceSyndio, Trusaic PayParityChanged
Two alternativesSysarb, beqom Pay Equity
Syndio
Three alternativesPayAnalytics, Trusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
Syndio
Two alternativesTrusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
no first choicenothing named
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:38yes97 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:02yes36 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:01yes1746 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:26yes178 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 20:13yes2516 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:18yes107 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:44yes2239 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:40yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:37yes826 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:26yes1759 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:15yes2249 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:26yes512 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:22yes99 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:12yes25 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:01yes1552 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:18yes205 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 19:03yes2616 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 21:17yes54 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:03yes1718 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:43yes53 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:02yes733 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:59yes1226 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:43yes2645 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:51yes1023 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:27yes1511 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 17:55yes77 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:00yes3270 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:23yes2012 s
ComparativeGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 20:45yes2323 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:56yes710 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 19:52yes1719 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 17:58yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:05yes519 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:41yes2349 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:55yes1252 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:15yes2328 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:46yes129 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:12yes35 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:00yes2165 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 20:05yes208 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 18:49yes2719 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:51yes2514 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:54yes2732 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:24yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:40yes2482 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:01yes1734 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:30yes2243 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:56yes1636 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 19:53yes1813 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:38yes28 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:01no049 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:42yes2010 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 19:57yes1913 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:12no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:23yes2332 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:37yes54 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:53no031 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 20:02yes1434 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:20yes2274 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:42no050 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:29yes2816 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:29yes49 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:05yes1753 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:50yes207 s
Negative framingGrok 4.20spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex (asked for grok-4.20-non-reasoning; the API answered as this version)2026-09-17 20:38yes2614 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:24yes57 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 18:53yes2545 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 18:00yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:28yes1454 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:29yes2737 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:01yes2642 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:28yes1447 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

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Category-scoped readings
ADP read as ADP DataCloud
Barley read as Workleap Compensation
Beqom read as beqom Pay Equity
Comprehensive read as Comprehensive.io
Deel read as Deel Compensation/Pay Equity
Deel Services read as Deel Compensation/Pay Equity
Payscale Ascent read as Payscale
SAP read as SAP SuccessFactors
Salary.com read as Salary.com Pay Equity
Salary.com (CompAnalyst Max Suite) read as Salary.com Pay Equity
Syndio PayEQ read as Syndio
Trusaic read as Trusaic PayParity
Trusaic (PayParity & Salary Range Finder) read as Trusaic PayParity
Trusaic (PayParity) read as Trusaic PayParity
Trusaic (PayParity® & R.O.S.A.®) read as Trusaic PayParity
Trusaic (PayParity™) read as Trusaic PayParity
Workday read as Workday Pay Equity
Workday HCM / compensation stack read as Workday Pay Equity
Workleap read as Workleap Compensation
beqom read as beqom Pay Equity
beqom (PaySuite) read as beqom Pay Equity
beqom (Total Compensation) read as beqom Pay Equity
beqom (with PayAnalytics) read as beqom Pay Equity
beqom PaySuite read as beqom Pay Equity
beqom Total Compensation read as beqom Pay Equity
Unresolved, counted raw
Applied Analytics Lens
Bloomberg PH
Mercer Comptryx
Orbiq
Remedyset
Workday or SAP SuccessFactors Pay Equity
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.
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