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 19 → 30 of 143
2 categories · Named, not rankedLevels.fyi
20Judge labels
0First choices
8Negative labels
6 / 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.
Standing
5 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Levels.fyi was named 5 times in Compensation benchmarkin and 1 other category, where Pave led with 19%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business30 of 155
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market100 of 148
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise115 of 130
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
In compensation benchmarkin · 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 Levels.fyi 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 benchmarking data | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 100 of 148 | 33% | 3 | 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. |
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 111 of 140 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Pave at 18% | goneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Levels.fyi held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Compensation benchmarkin · 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 133 → 91 of 138
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 113 → 101 of 115
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 133 → 100 of 148 |
| 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 148 → 111 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 Levels.fyi 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 Levels.fyi 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
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
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative4 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.
“use Levels.fyi/Glassdoor for tech total-comp transparency” Muse Glimmer 30B · Compensation management · comparative prompt · alternative
“Levels.fyi (free) for equity” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Compensation benchmarkin · budget 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.
“rely on individuals voluntarily submitting their own salary information” Muse Glimmer 30B · Compensation management · negative prompt · hard negative
“High margin of error, self-reporting bias... Avoid relying solely on crowdsourced data for setting official company bands.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · scale prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Levels.fyi, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Levels.fyi was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Levels.fyi, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Levels.fyi 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 Levels.fyi. 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 18 of the 20 answers that named Levels.fyi and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
ravio.com16
pin.com13
comprehensive.io11
pave.com10
captivateiq.com7
firsthr.app7
peoplemanagingpeople.com7
deel.com5
fitsmallbusiness.com5
figures.hr4
Eighty-five of the eighty-five domain citations in answers naming Levels.fyi came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
levels.fyi is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Levels.fyi takes 0% of first choices and Pave takes 19%.ShowHide
Search and answers
levels.fyi is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Levels.fyi takes 0% of first choices and Pave takes 19%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “benchmarking providers”
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not in the top ten
Position for “salary benchmarking data provider”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 74,000 a month (“levels.fyi”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 7 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,116,986 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 89,070 · 17,772 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 10,757
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 100 of 148 in compensation benchmarkin
Segment leader
19%
Pave
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 20 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 18 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 levels.fyi
10,000
subdomains included
Content
278
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
2 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 204 | undated | |||
| Blog | 66 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | undated | |||
| News or press | 2 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page levels.fyi 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.
Follow Levels.fyi
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
Levels.fyi is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Levels.fyi is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Salaries & Tools to Level Up Your Career
- For
- job seekers, employers, and academic research users
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Levels.fyi's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: levels.fyi, levels.fyi/internships/Bandwidth/Platform-Engineer-Intern. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
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 Levels.fyi'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 Levels.fyi, 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 Levels.fyi by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Levels.fyi 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 Levels.fyi, 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.