3 categories · RankedLevels.fyi
Levels.fyi provides salary and total compensation data, including equity, for tech roles at specific companies, along with career tools · levels.fyi ↗
Why models recommend it
“use Levels.fyi/Glassdoor for quick market reality checks on total comp, especially tech equity”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · alternative
“GitHub/Levels.fyi for tech) to get higher candidate signal over noise”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“Best for Tech & Leveling Data: Levels.fyi”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Tech roles with compensation transparency”MiniMax M2.5 · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Platforms like Glassdoor, Indeed, and Levels.fyi rely on individuals voluntarily submitting their own salary information.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Avoid those relying heavily on unverified crowdsourced data (e.g., from Glassdoor or Levels.fyi)”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · warning
“bridges the gap between free, low-quality data (Levels.fyi) and expensive enterprise surveys (Mercer)”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · warning
“not reliable enough for formal benchmarking or defensibility”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Levels.fyi, over the 27 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 2 | View → | |
| 16 | 3 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 5 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 2 | View → | |
| 9 | 3 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Levels.fyi's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- job seekers, employers, and academic research users
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 23 of the 27 answers that named Levels.fyi and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-eight of the seventy-eight domain citations in answers naming Levels.fyi came from a third party's page.
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 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 204 | undated | |||
| Blog | 66 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | undated | |||
| News or press | 2 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page levels.fyi exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.