accepted challengerNamed in four categories this edition.
accepted challengerNamed in three categories this edition.
First-choice share12%6%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate3%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#7A position in a field of 15; printed, not drawn.
Labels3317A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Payscale reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Syndio was named alongside these two in eleven of the fourteen direct answers. Figures vs Payscale · Figures vs CompUp · Payscale vs Syndio Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the pay equity page.
The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Payscale and CompUp stood in it.
Payscale first, CompUp not the choice
2 of 14 modelsCompUp was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.GPT-5.4 miniPayscale alternatives: Syndio, beqom Pay Equity
DeepSeek V4 FlashPayscale alternatives: Aeqium, CompAnalyst Pay Equity Suite, Pave, PayAnalytics, Syndio
Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Gemini 3.5 FlashSyndio alternatives: PayAnalytics, Payscale, Trusaic PayParity
xAIGrok 4.20Figures alternatives: Aeqium, CompUp, HiBob, Pave
Mistral SmallCompport, Figures alternatives: Payscale, Syndio
MiniMax M2.5PayAnalytics, Syndio, Trusaic PayParity alternatives: Figures, Payscale
GPT-6 LunaPayAnalytics alternatives: Payscale, Syndio, Trusaic PayParity
Muse Glimmer 30BFigures, Pave alternatives: ChartHop, CompUp, PayAnalytics, Syndio, Trusaic PayParity, beqom Pay Equity
Neither was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Claude Haiku 4.5Workleap Compensation alternatives: Compport, Ravio, Salary.com Pay Equity, Syndio
Perplexity SonarPayAnalytics alternatives: Affirmity, CandorIQ, EEOPay, Figures
Llama 4 Maverickno first choice
Qwen 3.7 FlashPayAnalytics alternatives: Pave, Syndio, Trusaic PayParity
Kimi K2Syndio alternatives: HiBob, Parity Software, Salary.com Pay Equity, Trusaic PayParity
Z.AIGLM 4.7 FlashXSyndio alternatives: Figures, PayAnalytics, Trusaic PayParity
Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.