Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 34 → 8 of 143
2 categories · RankedSalaryCube
37Judge labels
12First choices
3Negative 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
10% in Compensation benchmarkin for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 148 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
5 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 12 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of SalaryCube →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business9 of 155
2%7 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market3 of 148
10%12 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise4 of 130
5%14 labels
accepted 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 SalaryCube 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 | 10% | 3 of 148 | 8% | 12 | accepted challenger | ▲+6Since September 2026: 4% → 10%, +6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Pay equity | Compensation and total rewards | 4% | 12 of 73 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Syndio at 12% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, SalaryCube held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Compensation benchmarkin · by segment
Mid-market▲+6Since September 2026: 4% → 10%, +6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
10%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 6 → 3 of 138
Enterprise▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 29 → 6 of 115
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation benchmarkin | 4% | 10% | ▲+6Since September 2026: 4% → 10%, +6 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 3 of 148 |
| Pay equity | 0% | 4% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 24 → 12 of 73 |
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 SalaryCube 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 SalaryCube 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 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct15 labels5
Paraphrase6 labels1
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained10 labels5
Scale-constrained3 labels1
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative37 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 12 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.
“SalaryCube "leads for most U.S. organizations due to its daily-updated Bigfoot Live system, transparent pricing, and fast implementation."” Muse Glimmer 30B · Compensation benchmarkin · direct prompt · first choice
“SalaryCube and Ravio are frequently recommended due to their comprehensive data, ease of use, and fit for mid-market needs.” Mistral Small · Compensation benchmarkin · direct prompt · first choice
“SalaryCube and Pave are widely considered the most affordable options for dedicated pay equity analysis” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Pay equity · budget prompt · first choice
“start with SalaryCube—it's highlighted as the deepest fit in multiple independent comparisons for your scale” Grok 4.1 Fast · Compensation benchmarkin · 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.
“Good modern alternative, but less brand recognition and narrower vendor ecosystem.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Compensation benchmarkin · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SalaryCube, over the 37 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SalaryCube was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SalaryCube, over the 37 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SalaryCube 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 SalaryCube. 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 37 of the 37 answers that named SalaryCube and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
salarycube.comYour site33
ravio.com27
peoplemanagingpeople.com22
deel.com15
comprehensive.io14
pin.com14
figures.hr13
g2.com13
captivateiq.com9
hrtechsaas.com9
136 of the 169 domain citations in answers naming SalaryCube came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
salarycube.com ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, SalaryCube takes 10% of first choices and Pave takes 19%.ShowHide
Search and answers
salarycube.com ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, SalaryCube takes 10% of first choices and Pave takes 19%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “benchmarking providers”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “salary benchmarking data provider”
8
- Searches for its name, Google
- 30 a month (“salarycube”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 2,822 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,004 · 3 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 385
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
10%
rank 3 of 148 in compensation benchmarkin
Segment leader
19%
Pave
- First choices
- 12 across its categories
- Named in
- 37 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 37 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 salarycube.com
303
subdomains included
Content
72
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
21 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 44 | 0 | 2026-02-19 | ||
| Comparison | 21 | 10 | 2026-08-26 | HRIS and HCM platforms | |
| Report or ebook | 3 | 1 | 2026-08-01 | ||
| Blog | 2 | 0 | 2025-10-27 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2025-03-31 |
Most recent
- 2026-08-26Culpepper alternatives comparison
- 2026-08-26Pave alternatives comparison
- 2026-08-01Open benchmark contributor guide report or ebook
- 2026-07-02Payscale alternatives comparison
- 2026-07-02Payscale vs salary com vs mercer vs salarycube comparison
- 2026-07-02Ravio compensation alternatives comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page salarycube.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. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow SalaryCube
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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The company
SalaryCube is its own company.ShowHide
The company
SalaryCube is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The AI compensation platform for US employers.
- For
- US employers
- Price stated
- transparent, quote-based annual pricing salarycube.com
- Starting price
- 1995 salarycube.com
- Free plan or trial
- Yes. SalaryCube offers a free trial with no credit card, no sales call, and no data upload required. salarycube.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type I
- Hosting
- United States
- Customers named
- Office DepotO'Reilly Auto PartsSCADPeregrine HealthSCADPeregrine Health
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What SalaryCube's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: salarycube.com, salarycube.com/pricing, salarycube.com/security, salarycube.com/products/job-pricer, salarycube.com/customers. 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 SalaryCube'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 SalaryCube, 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 SalaryCube by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where SalaryCube 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 SalaryCube, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where SalaryCube is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where SalaryCube is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideSalaryCube is among the products AI models recommend first in Compensation benchmarking data this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.