# Pave Market Data Lite: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/pave-market-data-lite

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Compensation benchmarking data](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/rewards/compensation-benchmarking-data/index.md) | 2% | 16 | 0% | 2 |

## What the models said for it

- "Tech / startup, $0 budget: Pave Market Data Lite + Comprehensive.io." (Muse Glimmer 30B, Compensation benchmarkin)
- "Pave Market Data Lite — free base-salary and new-hire equity benchmarks" (Perplexity Sonar, Compensation benchmarkin)

## 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Pave Market Data Lite, from 5 of the 5 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- ravio.com: 4
- comprehensive.io: 3
- marketintelligencetools.com: 3
- pave.com: 3 (its own site)
- pin.com: 3
- salary.com: 3
- g2.com: 2
- hrpaypick.com: 2
- payscale.com: 2
- store.salary.com: 2

### Pages cited

- https://ravio.com/blog/free-salary-data: 4
- https://comprehensive.io/content/best-compensation-benchmarking-data-sources: 3
- https://marketintelligencetools.com/rankings/compensation-benchmarking-tools: 3
- https://pin.com/blog/salary-benchmarking-tools: 3
- https://hrpaypick.com/salary-benchmarking-small-business: 2
- https://payscale.com/: 2
- https://store.salary.com/benchmark-pro: 2
- https://bls.gov/oes/earnings.htm: 1

## In its own words

What Pave Market Data Lite's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Free Base Salary & Equity Compensation Benchmarks (https://www.pave.com/products/market-data-lite)
- For: Compensation leaders (https://www.pave.com/products/market-data-lite)
- Price stated: Free access (https://www.pave.com/products/market-data-lite)
- Starting price: 0 (https://www.pave.com/products/market-data-lite)
- Free plan or trial: Free trial (https://www.pave.com/products/market-data-lite)
- Certifications: SOC 2
- Customers named: Handshake AI, Grammarly, Enveda Biosciences, Clio, Ramp, Workato, Ancestry, Databricks

## What it publishes

Every page pave.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 903 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 384 pages, 9 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-23
- case study: 22 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-06-22
- webinar or virtual event: 4 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2025-05-16
- conference or event: 1 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-11
- report or ebook: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2022-03-23
- comparison: 12 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-06-10
- glossary or explainer: 17 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-05-22
- podcast or video: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2022-10-25
- news or press: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- Recent: 2026-09-23 blog: Compensation analysis https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/compensation-analysis
- Recent: 2026-09-23 blog: Equity grant https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/equity-grant
- Recent: 2026-09-21 blog: Putting the pave agent to work https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/putting-the-pave-agent-to-work
- Recent: 2026-09-15 blog: Eu pay transparency directive https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/eu-pay-transparency-directive
- Recent: 2026-09-15 blog: The pave agent web sourced compensation insights https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/the-pave-agent-web-sourced-compensation-insights
- Recent: 2026-09-14 blog: Market data release aerospace defense expanded equity coverage https://www.pave.com/blog-posts/market-data-release-aerospace-defense-expanded-equity-coverage

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/hr.