The short answer
Pave offers a free Market Data Lite plan and quotes its paid packages; Aeqium publishes a starting price of $15,000 a year for organizations up to 300 employees, implementation included.
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Pave wins 2Aeqium wins 21 tie
| Dimension | Pave | Aeqium |
|---|---|---|
| PricingPave’s Market Data Lite is free and its paid packages are quoted. Aeqium starts at $15,000 a year for organizations up to 300 employees, with no per-seat or per-module fees. Quote only | Quote only | $15,000/yr |
| CapabilitiesAeqium documents 9 of the 11 items on our compensation checklist, including pay equity analysis and an audit trail. Pave documents 8, including job architecture and market benchmarking. No-code merit matrices, bonus formulas, approval chains and proration, Salary and equity budgets by employee, reviewer or team, Bands for salary, equity and bonus with benchmark data from unlimited sources, Regression-based pay equity analysis (add-on), Automated compensation statements, Multi-currency salary, bonus and equity | 8 of 11 core capabilities | 9 of 11 core capabilities |
| IntegrationsPave lists 27 integrations, including Workday, ADP, BambooHR and Carta, and offers an API. Aeqium names Workday, BambooHR and Rippling and offers an open API and SFTP for custom integrations, but publishes no full list. 27 | 27 native | 3 documented |
| SecurityPave states SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001:2022 and GDPR. Aeqium states SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliance. Yes | SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR | SOC 2, GDPR |
| Fit and supportAeqium includes a dedicated customer success contact, Slack and email support and scheduled check-ins for the life of the subscription. Pave offers a help center and support tickets. Dedicated customer success manager, Slack, email, scheduled check-in calls | Small businesses, mid-market companies, enterprises | Mid-market companies, enterprises |
| Attribute | Pave | Aeqium |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Quote only | Flat fee |
| Price transparency | Quote only | Partly published |
| Best for | Small businesses, mid-market companies, enterprises | Mid-market companies, enterprises |
| Support channels | Help center, support tickets | Dedicated customer success manager, Slack, email, scheduled check-in calls |
| Attribute | Pave | Aeqium |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | ||
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud |
| Open API | ||
| SOC 2 Type II | ||
| GDPR program | ||
| Ownership | Private | Private |
Pricing. Pave’s Market Data Lite is free and its paid packages are quoted. Aeqium starts at $15,000 a year for organizations up to 300 employees, with no per-seat or per-module fees.
Capabilities. Aeqium documents 9 of the 11 items on our compensation checklist, including pay equity analysis and an audit trail. Pave documents 8, including job architecture and market benchmarking.
Integrations. Pave lists 27 integrations, including Workday, ADP, BambooHR and Carta, and offers an API. Aeqium names Workday, BambooHR and Rippling and offers an open API and SFTP for custom integrations, but publishes no full list.
Security. Pave states SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001:2022 and GDPR. Aeqium states SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliance.
Fit and support. Aeqium includes a dedicated customer success contact, Slack and email support and scheduled check-ins for the life of the subscription. Pave offers a help center and support tickets.
Ravio has the highest LeadChange Score in Compensation Management after excluding these two (7.3/10).
Pave publishes no price for Compensation Planning, which comes as an add-on to its quoted Agentic Workflows package; only the Market Data Lite benchmarks cost nothing. To weigh it against Aeqium, ask Pave to quote the same employee count and cycles you would license from Aeqium.
They price differently, so it depends on what you buy. Aeqium publishes one annual subscription from $15,000 for up to 300 employees, implementation included, but you license survey data separately. Pave’s data tier is free and its planning packages are quoted.
Both do. Pave Agent analyzes market data, builds job architecture and prices new jobs. Aeqium AI configures comp cycles and logic from plain-language requests and answers analysis questions.
Pave states SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001:2022 and GDPR. Aeqium holds a SOC 2 Type 2 report and states GDPR compliance; it publishes no ISO 27001 certificate.
Pave builds real-time benchmarks from 9,000+ participating companies. Aeqium does not resell data: it imports benchmarks from Radford, Mercer, WTW or any other source you license.
Among the compensation tools we review, Ravio, Pequity, Figures, Payscale, CompAnalyst and beqom are other options we rank. Against Aeqium, Pave’s case is free market data and named integrations; Aeqium’s is a published price and configurable cycles.
Pave lists small businesses among the sizes it is built for; Aeqium is built for mid-market companies and enterprises.
Yes, both list a free trial. Pave also lists a free plan.
Your team size, what matters most and your role: see which one fits more of your answers, from verified facts and list prices. Then, if you like, ask to hear from both.
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