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 23 → 71 of 71
1 category · RankedSyndio
148Judge labels
37First choices
51Negative labels
14 / 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.
Best standing
62% in Pay equity for enterprise buyers
Rank 1 of 73 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
3 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 27% of its 45 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Syndio →By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.
Small business78 of 78
0%41 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market1 of 73
12%45 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise1 of 68
62%62 labels
endorsed leader
In pay equity · 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 Syndio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay equity | Compensation and total rewards | 12% | 1 of 73 | 27% | 45 | criticized challenger | ▼−4Since September 2026: 17% → 13%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Syndio held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Pay equity · by segment
Mid-market▼−4Since September 2026: 17% → 13%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
13%from 17% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 1 of 67, unchanged
Enterprise▲+8Since September 2026: 53% → 62%, +8 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
62%from 53% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 1 of 60, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay equity | 17% | 13% | ▼−4Since September 2026: 17% → 13%, −4 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 1 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 Syndio 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 Syndio 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 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
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
Direct28 labels13
Paraphrase24 labels15
Comparative33 labels20not counted in share
Budget-constrained23 labels4
Scale-constrained17 labels5
Negative23 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative148 labels in all, every segment counted; 37 of the 60 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.
“Go with Syndio or Trusaic. Their ability to handle massive, messy HRIS datasets and translate them into legally defensible global narratives is unmatched.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Pay equity · comparative prompt · first choice
“Syndio is a leading pay equity platform trusted by organizations of all sizes... Syndio is best for legally defensible enterprise audits” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Pay equity · comparative prompt · first choice
“Syndio is likely the best overall choice due to its robust pay transparency features, scalability, and strong compliance support” Mistral Small · Pay equity · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Syndio PayEQ is the best fit for enterprise HR that needs repeatable pay equity audit reporting and gender gap monitoring” Muse Glimmer 30B · Pay equity · comparative 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.
“Small businesses should avoid enterprise-grade, complex tools like Syndio that demand dedicated rewards staff and quote-based pricing.” Llama 4 Maverick · Pay equity · negative prompt · hard negative
“What to Avoid on a Limited Budget - Syndio ... Not ideal for tight budgets.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Pay equity · budget prompt · hard negative
“Enterprise statistical audit giants (e.g., Syndio, Beqom, Trusaic) are highly robust but typically require custom enterprise contracts and significant implementation effort.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Pay equity · negative prompt · soft negative
“robust tools like Syndio and Trusaic are highly reliable, they are designed for large enterprises and may be overkill—and cost-prohibitive—for smaller organizations” Mistral Small · Pay equity · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Syndio, over the 148 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Syndio was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Syndio, over the 148 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Syndio 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 Syndio. 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 146 of the 148 answers that named Syndio and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
peoplemanagingpeople.com109
effy.ai88
compensationtools.net80
guideflow.com74
synd.io65
trusaic.com56
gartner.com52
worldmetrics.org46
g2.com43
sourceforge.net42
655 of the 655 domain citations in answers naming Syndio came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Syndio stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Syndio stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “pay equity tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “pay equity analysis software”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,000 a month (“syndio”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 15 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- · in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 179
- 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
12%
rank 1 of 73 in pay equity
First choices
37
across its categories
- Named in
- 148 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 146 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 syndio.com
441
subdomains included
Content
352
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 270 | undated | Pay equity, Performance management | ||
| News or press | 28 | undated | Pay equity, Performance management | ||
| Podcast or video | 21 | undated | Pay equity | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 14 | undated | Pay equity | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 7 | undated | Pay equity | ||
| Case study | 6 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 3 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 2 | undated | Pay equity | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page syndio.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. 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.
Names read as Syndio
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Syndio; a claim can dispute any of them.
Syndio PayEQ 4Syndio (PayEQ) 2Syndio (PayEQ & Decisions) 1
Follow Syndio
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
Syndio is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Syndio is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Pay Equity and Decision Intelligence for Pay
- For
- Global enterprises where compensation is complex, consequential, and under scrutiny.
- Certifications
- SOC-2 compliant
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers
What Syndio's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: syndio.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is 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 Syndio'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 Syndio, 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 Syndio by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Syndio 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 Syndio, 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 Syndio 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 Syndio is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideAI models recommend Syndio first in Pay equity 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.