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 128 → 99 of 100
Workday · 1 category · RankedWorkday Compensation
80Judge labels
12First choices
26Negative 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
21% in Compensation management for enterprise buyers
Rank 140 of 140 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 48% of its 23 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Workday Compensation →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business108 of 108
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market140 of 140
0%23 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise2 of 126
21%48 labels
accepted challenger
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 Workday Compensation 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% | 140 of 140 | 48% | 23 | criticized challenger | =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, Workday Compensation 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 170 → 131 of 131
Enterprise▼−15Since September 2026: 35% → 20%, −15 points. Past the 13-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
20%from 35% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 2 pointsRank 1 → 2 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 170 → 140 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 Workday Compensation 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 Workday Compensation 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 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct11 labels2
Paraphrase11 labels6
Comparative22 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained10 labels4
Scale-constrained12 labelsNone
Negative14 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative80 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 16 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.
“Workday Compensation is the leading choice for large enterprises that are already running Workday HCM” Muse Glimmer 30B · Compensation management · comparative prompt · first choice
“Already on Workday, Oracle or SAP? Start with the compensation module in your HCM” GPT-6 Luna · Compensation management · comparative prompt · alternative
“It is the standard for Fortune 500s... creates a "single source of truth."” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Compensation management · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best for: enterprise-grade compensation inside a broader HCM suite” GPT-5.4 mini · Compensation management · 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.
“Avoid heavy enterprise giants like *Workday* (unless you are already fully migrated to their ecosystem) or *Beqom*” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · direct prompt · hard negative
“Multiple class-action lawsuits from major employers ... alleging systemic payroll errors after implementation” Kimi K2 · Compensation management · negative prompt · hard negative
“HRIS platforms with compensation features (like Workday, HiBob, Personio) are broad HR suites with basic compensation tools that typically lack the depth and flexibility” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Compensation management · comparative prompt · soft negative
“Many core HR systems (like Workday, HiBob, or Lattice) feature native compensation add-ons. While convenient, they often lack the depth of configurability” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Compensation management · comparative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday Compensation, over the 80 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Compensation was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday Compensation, over the 80 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Compensation 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 Workday Compensation. 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 73 of the 80 answers that named Workday Compensation and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
ravio.com49
learn.g2.com37
captivateiq.com36
comprehensive.io36
gartner.com25
darwinbox.com23
g2.com22
guideflow.com21
compport.com18
deel.com18
285 of the 285 domain citations in answers naming Workday Compensation came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Workday Compensation stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Workday Compensation stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 70 a month (“workday compensation”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 26 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Workday's site (workday.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 140 of 140 in compensation management
Segment leader
18%
Pave
- First choices
- 12 across its categories
- Named in
- 80 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 73 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 Workday Compensation
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday Compensation; a claim can dispute any of them.
Workday 13Workday Compensation (standalone) 1
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The company
Workday is the company behind Workday Compensation.ShowHide
The company
Workday is the company behind Workday Compensation.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Put your compensation strategy on autopilot by using Workday to model total rewards, handle merit rollouts, and instantly adapt to market shifts.
- For
- compensation teams
- Hosting
- USCanada
- Customers named
- OptroWaste Connections
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications
What Workday Compensation's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: workday.com/en-us/perspectives/ai/ai-rewrites-compensation.html, workday.com/en-us/artificial-intelligence/ai-agents/total-rewards.html, workday.com/en-us/customer-stories/q-z/waste-connections-simplifies-bulk-compensation-extend.html, workday.com/en-au/customer-stories/q-z/waste-connections-simplifies-bulk-compensation-extend.html, workday.com/en-hk/customer-stories/q-z/waste-connections-simplifies-bulk-compensation-extend.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Workday Compensation'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 Workday Compensation, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Workday Compensation by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Workday Compensation 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 Workday Compensation, 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.