Small business=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 116 → 71 of 100
Mercer · 1 category · Named, not rankedMercer IBE
9Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative labels
6 / 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.
Standing
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Mercer IBE was named 4 times in Compensation management, where Pave led with 18%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business78 of 108
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market88 of 140
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise33 of 126
0%4 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 Mercer IBE 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% | 88 of 140 | 25% | 4 | 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. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Mercer IBE held within the floor in its one category: 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 36 → 99 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 30 → 37 of 109
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 36 → 88 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 Mercer IBE 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 Mercer IBE 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative5 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative2 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.
No positive label carried a quote.
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.
“expensive enterprise software (such as Radford, Mercer, or HRSoft) that comes with high subscription rates and steep implementation fees” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Mercer IBE, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Mercer IBE was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Mercer IBE, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Mercer IBE 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 Mercer IBE. 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 8 of the 9 answers that named Mercer IBE and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
ravio.com8
captivateiq.com5
comprehensive.io5
deel.com5
gartner.com5
darwinbox.com4
figures.hr4
g2.com4
learn.g2.com4
bamboohr.com3
Forty-seven of the forty-seven domain citations in answers naming Mercer IBE came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
mercer.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Mercer IBE takes 0% of first choices and Pave takes 18%.ShowHide
Search and answers
mercer.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Mercer IBE takes 0% 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
- Its company's site
- mercer.com shared with Mercer's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 98,058 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 11,928 · 1,272 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 29,524
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 88 of 140 in compensation management
Segment leader
18%
Pave
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 9 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 8 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 Mercer IBE
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Mercer IBE; a claim can dispute any of them.
Mercer 3Mercer/Radford 1
Follow Mercer IBE
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
Mercer is the company behind Mercer IBE.ShowHide
The company
Mercer is the company behind Mercer IBE.
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Company recordsIs this your product?
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 Mercer IBE'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 Mercer IBE, 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 Mercer IBE by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Mercer IBE 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 Mercer IBE, 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.