Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 11 → 38 of 71
3 categories · RankedAeqium
42Judge labels
3First choices
3Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Pay equity for mid-market buyers
Rank 10 of 73 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 12 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Aeqium →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business30 of 78
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market10 of 73
4%12 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise18 of 68
0%5 labels
under the label threshold
In pay equity · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Aeqium for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay equity | Compensation and total rewards | 4% | 10 of 73 | 17% | 12 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 2% | 15 of 140 | 0% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 6% → 2%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workforce planning | Workforce planning and analytics | 0% | 61 of 98 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ChartHop at 37% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Aeqium held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Pay equity · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 10 → 9 of 67
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 12 → 19 of 60
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation management | 6% | 2% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 6% → 2%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 15 of 140 |
| Pay equity | 2% | 4% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 10 of 73, unchanged |
| Workforce planning | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 33 → 61 of 98 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Aeqium across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Aeqium across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct12 labels2
Paraphrase7 labels1
Comparative13 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative42 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“I would pick Aeqium for compensation review workflow flexibility, or Ravio if your highest priority is market benchmarking and salary banding” Perplexity Sonar · Compensation management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd choose Aeqium for the best balance of analysis depth, reporting traceability, and fit for mid-market HR analytics teams” Perplexity Sonar · Pay equity · direct prompt · first choice
“Aeqium being a top choice for its comprehensive features” Mistral Small · Pay equity · direct prompt · first choice
“Aeqium excels at customization and workflow flexibility” Kimi K2 · Compensation management · comparative prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Tools requiring heavy analyst intervention (e.g., certain configurations of Aeqium, Figures)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Pay equity · negative prompt · soft negative
“are quote-only and do not publish prices” Muse Glimmer 30B · Pay equity · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Aeqium, over the 42 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Aeqium was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Aeqium, over the 42 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Aeqium was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Aeqium. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 42 of the 42 answers that named Aeqium and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com36
ravio.com25
effy.ai21
gartner.com20
guideflow.com19
compensationtools.net18
worldmetrics.org17
g2.com16
learn.g2.com16
sourceforge.net14
202 of the 202 domain citations in answers naming Aeqium came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
aeqium.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Aeqium takes 4% of first choices and Syndio takes 12%.ShowHide
Search and answers
aeqium.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Aeqium takes 4% of first choices and Syndio takes 12%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “pay equity tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “pay equity analysis software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 260 a month (“aeqium”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 366 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 201 · 9 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 302
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 1 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 10 of 73 in pay equity
Segment leader
12%
Syndio
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 42 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 42 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on aeqium.com
147
subdomains included
Content
100
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
6 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 75 | undated | Compensation management, Pay equity | ||
| Case study | 15 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 5 | undated | Compensation management | ||
| Comparison | 4 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page aeqium.com 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. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow Aeqium
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Aeqium is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Aeqium is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The only AI built to execute compensation planning; fully flexible compensation planning platform; AI-powered compensation planning software that configures cycles, surfaces insights, and executes changes in plain language.
- For
- enterprise compensation teams
- Free plan or trial
- free demo environment aeqium.com/plans
- Certifications
- SOC II AUDITEDGDPR COMPLIANTAICPA SOC 2 Type 2 certificationSOC 2 Type 2 Certified
- Customers named
- dbt LabsCrispWHOOPThoropassNEXT InsuranceBrazeNEXTHopper
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, hosting
What Aeqium's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: aeqium.com, aeqium.com/plans, aeqium.com/legal/security, aeqium.com/product/employee-portal, aeqium.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Aeqium's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Aeqium, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Aeqium by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Aeqium is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Aeqium, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.