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 157 → 143 of 143
Radford
97Judge labels
12First choices
49Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
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 benchmarkin for enterprise buyers
Rank 7 of 148 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 50% of its 28 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Radford →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business155 of 155
0%26 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market7 of 148
5%28 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise2 of 130
16%33 labels
criticized challenger
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 Radford 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 | 5% | 7 of 148 | 50% | 28 | criticized challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 4% → 6%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Compensation management | Compensation and total rewards | 0% | 99 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% | 46 of 73 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Syndio at 12% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Radford held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Compensation benchmarkin · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 4% → 6%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 7 of 138, unchanged
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 16% → 19%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
19%from 16% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 2 of 115, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation benchmarkin | 4% | 6% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 4% → 6%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 7 of 148, unchanged |
| 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 40 → 99 of 140 |
| Pay equity | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 46 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 Radford 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 Radford 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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
Direct17 labels5
Paraphrase19 labels3
Comparative12 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained18 labels3
Scale-constrained14 labels1
Negative17 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative97 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 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.
“This makes Radford a top pick for companies looking for reliable, free salary benchmarking data without a significant financial investment.” Mistral Small · Compensation benchmarkin · budget prompt · first choice
“Radford or Mercer are the top choices due to their industry-specific data and reliability” Mistral Small · Compensation benchmarkin · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“1. Radford (Aon) — *Best for B2B Tech/SaaS*” Kimi K2 · Compensation benchmarkin · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Choose Radford if you are a large tech or life sciences company trying to understand where you stand against the market” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Pay equity · comparative 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.
“"Why you should avoid traditional providers (Mercer, Radford, Willis Towers Watson)"” Muse Glimmer 30B · Compensation benchmarkin · negative prompt · hard negative
“without getting locked into 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
“incredibly robust but requires manual survey participation, a higher budget, and more administrative effort than modern API-based systems” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“$15K–$80K+/yr with mandatory survey participation. Overkill for most mid-market B2B unless you're in tech/life sciences specifically.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Radford, over the 97 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Radford was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Radford, over the 97 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Radford 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 Radford. 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 87 of the 97 answers that named Radford and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
ravio.com67
comprehensive.io46
salarycube.com38
peoplemanagingpeople.com31
pin.com29
captivateiq.com27
worldmetrics.org27
deel.com24
figures.hr21
g2.com21
No domain is on file for Radford, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Radford stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Radford stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 18,100 a month (“radford”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 5,850 a month
- Its own site
- No site of its own on file, so no site figures
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
5%
rank 7 of 148 in compensation benchmarkin
Segment leader
19%
Pave
- First choices
- 12 across its categories
- Named in
- 97 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.
Names read as Radford
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Radford; a claim can dispute any of them.
Radford (Aon) 9Mercer/Radford 1Radford (A Mercer Company) 1Radford (by Aon) 1Radford (now part of Aon) 1Radford (now part of WTW) 1
Follow Radford
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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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 Radford'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 Radford, 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 Radford by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Radford 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 Radford, 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.