Radford
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%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Mercer Total Remuneration Survey is first at 33%.
Why models recommend it
“Radford provides deep traditional global enterprise data; Pave offers real-time API integrations”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
“It is widely considered the gold standard for tech and SaaS.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Radford excels in private company data (including VC/PE-backed firms) and has massive participation”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“use Radford/Mercer/WTW for formal, auditable enterprise benchmarking and board reporting”Muse Glimmer 30B · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Providers to avoid or use carefully include: - Mercer, Willis Towers Watson (WTW), and Radford when the budget is tight”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Avoid for Mid-Market: Radford (Aon), Mercer, or Willis Towers Watson”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
“Large vendors (like Radford) rely on hundreds of massive companies to build benchmarks... avoid the heavy enterprise platforms unless you have a dedicated Compensation Manager”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scale-constrained question · warning
“Traditional premium providers like Mercer, Radford, or full Payscale/Salary.com subscriptions can cost thousands annually and are often overkill for small teams.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Radford, over the 73 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 | 15 | Compare → | |
| 45 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 36 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 35 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 24 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 22 | 2 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Radford →
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 58 of the 73 answers that named Radford and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for Radford, so its own site is not marked. Thirteen were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |