Small business▼−3Since September 2026: 3% → 0%, −3 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 3% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 11 → 33 of 100
2 categories · RankedCaptivateIQ
50Judge labels
4First choices
7Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
5% in Compensation management for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 140 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
3 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 6% of its 18 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of CaptivateIQ →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business38 of 108
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market5 of 140
5%18 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise11 of 126
2%19 labels
accepted challenger
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 CaptivateIQ 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 | 5% | 5 of 140 | 6% | 18 | accepted challenger | ▲+1Since September 2026: 3% → 4%, +1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Compensation benchmarking data | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 87 of 148 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 19% | =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, CaptivateIQ held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Compensation management · by segment
Mid-market▲+1Since September 2026: 3% → 4%, +1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 3% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 12 pointsRank 11 → 5 of 131
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 9 → 8 of 109
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation management | 3% | 4% | ▲+1Since September 2026: 3% → 4%, +1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 11 → 5 of 140 |
| Compensation benchmarkin | 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 57 → 87 of 148 |
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 CaptivateIQ 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 CaptivateIQ 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct19 labels4
Paraphrase6 labelsNone
Comparative12 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained4 labelsNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative5 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative50 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 6 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.
“CaptivateIQ is built for finance/comp admins who think in spreadsheets and need to model plan changes before rollout” Kimi K2 · Compensation management · comparative prompt · first choice
“CaptivateIQ (Best for Complex Plan Logic) ... The "industry standard" for mid-market to enterprise B2B teams” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · direct prompt · first choice
“CaptivateIQ is my best default pick for a mid-market team” GPT-6 Luna · Compensation management · direct prompt · first choice
“the best default choice is usually CaptivateIQ” GPT-5.4 mini · Compensation management · direct 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.
“most commission tools (like Spiff or CaptivateIQ) are prohibitively expensive for tight budgets” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CaptivateIQ, over the 50 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CaptivateIQ was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CaptivateIQ, over the 50 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CaptivateIQ 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 CaptivateIQ. 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 49 of the 50 answers that named CaptivateIQ and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
captivateiq.comYour site38
ravio.com32
learn.g2.com29
comprehensive.io24
g2.com21
gartner.com21
hibob.com20
darwinbox.com14
deel.com14
peoplemanagingpeople.com14
189 of the 227 domain citations in answers naming CaptivateIQ came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
captivateiq.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, CaptivateIQ takes 5% of first choices and Pave takes 18%.ShowHide
Search and answers
captivateiq.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, CaptivateIQ takes 5% 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
- 4,400 a month (“captivateiq”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 41 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 17,854 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,926 · 351 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,945
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
5%
rank 5 of 140 in compensation management
Segment leader
18%
Pave
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 50 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 49 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 captivateiq.com
612
subdomains included
Content
497
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
4 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 324 | 44 | 2026-09-22 | ||
| Conference or event | 94 | 1 | 2026-07-21 | ||
| Comparison | 27 | 4 | 2026-09-22 | ||
| Case study | 22 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 13 | 4 | 2026-09-22 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 12 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 5 | 1 | 2026-07-14 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-22Best compensation management software blog
- 2026-09-22Best sales performance management software blog
- 2026-09-22How to Build a Commission Calculator With AI (and When to Buy Instead) template or tool
- 2026-09-22Build vs buy sales planning software comparison
- 2026-09-22Headcount planning blog
- 2026-09-22Homegrown commission system blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- August 5, 2026From Ad Hoc to Adaptive: A Maturity Roadmap for Modern Incentive CompensationBoston · spoke
- August 4, 2026Suites and Sox at Fenway ParkFenway Park, Boston · hosted
- August 4, 2026Beyond the Hype: How AI Is Reshaping Incentive CompensationBoston · spoke
- June 10, 2026 to June 11, 2026RevOpsAF LondonLondon · attended
- June 9, 2026Happy HourDevonshire Terrace, London · hosted
- June 9, 2026 to June 10, 2026eRewards Sales Comp SummitLondon · attended
As the event pages on captivateiq.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page captivateiq.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. 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.
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The company
CaptivateIQ is its own company.ShowHide
The company
CaptivateIQ is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Sales Performance Management
- For
- Enterprise
- Price stated
- Pricing is structured based on the number of payees, compensation complexity, and required integrations. captivateiq.com
- Certifications
- SOC 1SOC 2ASC 606/340IFRS 15SOX complianceCustomers’ Choice distinction
- Customers named
- GongtipaltishowpadFinPlanviewServiceTradeNetskopeBuyers Edge Platform
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting
What CaptivateIQ's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: captivateiq.com, captivateiq.com/pricing, trust.captivateiq.com, captivateiq.com/platform, captivateiq.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for CaptivateIQ by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where CaptivateIQ 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 CaptivateIQ, 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.