Small business▲+6Since September 2026: 12% → 18%, +6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
18%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 3 of 100, unchanged
Compease
31Judge labels
9First choices
3Negative labels
11 / 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
16% in Compensation management for small business buyers
Rank 78 of 140 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 33% of its 3 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business3 of 108
16%16 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market78 of 140
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
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 Compease 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 | 0% | 78 of 140 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Pay equity | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 50 of 73 | 33% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Syndio at 12% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Compease held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Compensation management · by segment
Mid-market=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 44 → 76 of 131
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation management | 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 44 → 78 of 140 |
| Pay equity | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 50 of 73, unchanged |
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 Compease 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 Compease 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 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 | 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
Direct9 labels5
Paraphrase4 labels1
Comparative5 labelsNone
Budget-constrained9 labels3
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 9 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.
“Compease is a strong fit for small to mid-sized organizations” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Compensation management · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Compease for visualization” Grok 4.1 Fast · Pay equity · scale 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.
“though it is less commonly recommended as the default budget choice than BambooHR or Salary.com” Perplexity Sonar · Compensation management · budget 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 Compease, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Compease was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Compease, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Compease 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 Compease. 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 31 of the 31 answers that named Compease and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com22
fitsmallbusiness.com16
learn.g2.com16
ravio.com16
comprehensive.io15
hibob.com14
g2.com13
capterra.com11
firsthr.app11
captivateiq.com10
No domain is on file for Compease, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Compease stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Compease stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 210 a month (“compease”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 2 a month
- Its own site
- No site of its own on file, so no site figures
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 78 of 140 in compensation management
Segment leader
18%
Pave
- First choices
- 9 across its categories
- Named in
- 31 answers
- Its own site cited
- No site on file to match
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.
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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.
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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 Compease'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 Compease, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Compease by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Compease 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 Compease, 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.