Bureau of Labor Statistics
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Pave is first at 19%.
Payscale is first at 18%.
Mercer Total Remuneration Survey is first at 33%.
Why models recommend it
“Best overall for free salary comparison tools... highly recommended for small businesses due to its cost-effectiveness”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) – Best Overall Free Option ... Start with BLS for credibility and zero cost”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For a truly limited budget, start with BLS + Glassdoor combined.”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Bureau of Labor Statistics, over the 14 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 2 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 11 of the 14 answers that named Bureau of Labor Statistics and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for Bureau of Labor Statistics, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |