Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 14% → 18%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
18%from 14% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 2 of 100, unchanged
BambooHR · 1 category · RankedBambooHR Compensation
56Judge labels
11First choices
12Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
16% in Compensation management for small business buyers
Rank 7 of 140 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 15% of its 13 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of BambooHR Compensation →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business2 of 108
16%40 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market7 of 140
4%13 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise124 of 126
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
In compensation management · 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 BambooHR Compensation 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 4% | 7 of 140 | 15% | 13 | accepted challenger | ▲+1Since September 2026: 1% → 2%, +1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, BambooHR Compensation held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Compensation management · by segment
Mid-market▲+1Since September 2026: 1% → 2%, +1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 1% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 12 pointsRank 18 → 11 of 131
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 97 → 107 of 109
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation management | 1% | 2% | ▲+1Since September 2026: 1% → 2%, +1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 18 → 7 of 140 |
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 BambooHR Compensation 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 BambooHR Compensation 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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
Direct7 labels1
Paraphrase13 labels6
Comparative8 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained16 labels4
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative56 labels in all, every segment counted; 11 of the 13 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.
“BambooHR is worth evaluating: its Elite plan lists compensation planning, salary benchmarking, and pay bands at $25 per employee/month” GPT-6 Luna · Compensation management · budget prompt · first choice
“I would choose BambooHR for the best mix of affordability, usability, and compensation features.” Perplexity Sonar · Compensation management · budget prompt · first choice
“Affordable comp module in core HR platform; analytics + equity tools. | Gated behind higher tiers” Grok 4.1 Fast · Compensation management · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“BambooHR is highly rated... Caveat: You may eventually outgrow the native planning tools” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation management · paraphrase prompt · alternative
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.
“add CompUp at ~$3/employee/year rather than $6/seat/month Lattice Compensate or BambooHR Elite at $25/employee” Muse Glimmer 30B · Compensation management · budget prompt · soft negative
“Basic comp tools gated behind top-tier plan” Kimi K2 · Compensation management · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as BambooHR Compensation, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BambooHR Compensation was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as BambooHR Compensation, over the 56 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BambooHR Compensation 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 BambooHR Compensation. 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 55 of the 56 answers that named BambooHR Compensation and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
learn.g2.com42
ravio.com41
firsthr.app35
hibob.com33
comprehensive.io32
g2.com27
peoplemanagingpeople.com20
fitsmallbusiness.com19
bamboohr.comYour site16
captivateiq.com16
265 of the 281 domain citations in answers naming BambooHR Compensation came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
bamboohr.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, BambooHR Compensation takes 4% of first choices and Pave takes 18%.ShowHide
Search and answers
bamboohr.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, BambooHR Compensation takes 4% of first choices and Pave takes 18%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “compensation platforms”
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not in the top ten
Position for “compensation management software”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 10 a month (“bamboohr compensation”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Its company's site
- bamboohr.com shared with BambooHR's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,055,247 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 66,775 · 5,497 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 37,276
- Paid Google search
- 11 searches its ads show for, about 2,427 clicks and $44,698 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 7 of 140 in compensation management
Segment leader
18%
Pave
- First choices
- 11 across its categories
- Named in
- 56 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 55 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.
Names read as BambooHR Compensation
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as BambooHR Compensation; a claim can dispute any of them.
BambooHR 11BambooHR Elite 2
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The company
BambooHR is the company behind BambooHR Compensation.ShowHide
The company
BambooHR is the company behind BambooHR Compensation.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Manage employee compensation with confidence. BambooHR’s compensation software helps you ensure pay equity, automate reviews, and simplify HR workflows.
- For
- compensation planners, recommenders, and approvers
- Integrations claimed
- 150 bamboohr.com/platform/compensation
- Customers named
- FreeFlight Systems
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, certifications, hosting
What BambooHR Compensation's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: bamboohr.com/platform/compensation, bamboohr.com/product-updates/stored-compensation-letters, bamboohr.com/product-updates/skip-payrolls-from-bamboohr, bamboohr.com/product-updates/compensation-budget-uploader, bamboohr.com/product-updates/compensation-management-update. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for BambooHR Compensation by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where BambooHR Compensation 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 BambooHR Compensation, 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.