Orbyt Intelligence vs Comprehensive.io
Comprehensive.Not really.
Comprehensive is the startup dashboard. Orbyt is the full map.
Infrastructure coverage: API access, MCP support, data license, verification, breadth.
Comprehensive.io serves one audience well: VC-backed startups in major hubs.
Outside that audience, the dataset thins out fast. No free API. No MCP support. No forward projections. No meaningful coverage of public companies, enterprise SaaS, or frontier AI labs that are not already customers. Orbyt Intelligence covers 3,500 roles across 81 cities with a working public API on the free tier, MCP support for AI agents, projections through 2030, and a CC BY 4.0 license you can actually build on. Comprehensive is the name. It is not the coverage.
Where Comprehensive.io lands. Where it does not.
Where Comprehensive.io is strong
- Modern compensation benchmarking UX
- Strong positioning in VC-backed startup ecosystem
- API exists for paid customers
- Real compensation transparency advocacy and public presence
- Real-time data feeds from their customer base
Where Comprehensive.io falls short
- Dataset concentrated on VC-backed startups. Thin outside that slice.
- No free public API tier
- No MCP or AI-agent integration
- Narrower role and city coverage than Orbyt
- No forward projections through 2030
- Heavy HR-buyer focus. Not built for developers or candidates.
What Comprehensive.io cannot do.
The specific gaps. Every one of them is a gap Orbyt Intelligence fills below.
The dataset is a slice, not a map.
Comprehensive.io coverage is concentrated on VC-backed startups in major hubs. That is by design, and their customers in that segment are well served. Step outside the segment, and the coverage gets thin fast. Public companies, enterprise SaaS at scale, frontier AI labs that are not already Comprehensive customers, and industries outside tech see sharp coverage drops.
No free public API tier.
Comprehensive.io has APIs for paid customers. There is no free developer tier and no way to evaluate the API before a contract. For a developer, a researcher, or a startup founder who wants to validate the data against a use case before committing, the doors are closed.
No MCP. AI agents cannot use Comprehensive as a tool.
Claude Desktop, ChatGPT Actions, autonomous agents in Langchain or crewai pipelines: none of them can call Comprehensive as a first-class MCP tool. As of Q2 2026, there is no MCP manifest on the Comprehensive.io roadmap. An agent that needs salary data inside a workflow has to use a different provider or fall back to scraping.
No forward projections. No 2030 model.
Comprehensive surfaces real-time data from customer payroll feeds. That is useful for lagging questions (what do startups pay today?) but silent on the leading questions (what will AI engineer comp look like in 2028?). Orbyt Intelligence publishes forward projections through 2030 for every role and city, with the methodology disclosed.
Proprietary license. Cannot cite or redistribute.
Comprehensive data is proprietary. If you are writing a paper, building a public comp transparency tool, training a model, or embedding the data in a product that serves your own customers, the license restricts what you can do. Orbyt Intelligence is CC BY 4.0, which explicitly permits all of the above with attribution.
What you get with Orbyt Intelligence.
Every advantage below is live, published, and free to verify today.
3,500+ roles vs Comprehensive's startup-centric subset
81 U.S. cities vs Comprehensive's major-metro focus
Free public API with Bearer auth. No sales cycle.
MCP native for Claude Desktop, ChatGPT Actions, and autonomous agents
Forward projections through 2030 with methodology disclosure
CC BY 4.0 license. Cite, reuse, build on top of.
Covers AI labs, Big Tech, Enterprise SaaS, and public companies. Not just VC-backed startups.
Light years ahead of Comprehensive.io.
Every capability below is shipping today. Live endpoints, published spec, documented methodology.
Coverage that is actually comprehensive.
3,500+ roles across 81 U.S. cities. Every major AI lab (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Cohere, Mistral) with leveling frameworks. Every FAANG company. Every Fortune 500 tech employer. Public companies cross-referenced against SEC proxy filings. Enterprise SaaS. Not just the startup slice. The name Comprehensive.io describes the product we ship, not the product they ship.
A free public API that works in 5 minutes.
Sign up, get a Bearer token, make your first call. 30 req/min on the free tier, no card required. OpenAPI 3.1 spec published at /openapi-intelligence.yaml. Stability guarantees. SDK patterns documented. Everything a developer would actually need to ship a comp feature in a product. Comprehensive does not offer this tier.
MCP manifest. AI agents query Orbyt as a tool.
Drop /mcp-intelligence.json into Claude Desktop's config. An agent can now call get_salary_by_role, get_city_premium, compare_companies, and 12 other tool functions. No scraping. No human in the loop. No custom integration work. Comprehensive has no MCP story. Orbyt has 15+ exposed tool calls and growing.
Forward projections through 2030.
Every role, every city, projected year-over-year through 2030 with an explicit methodology. AI premium modeling, macro wage growth, regional shifts, industry automation pressure, labor market elasticity. Projections are hedged (ranges, not points) and fully cited. Comprehensive reports what is. Orbyt reports what will be.
CC BY 4.0. Legally, you can do more with Orbyt data.
Comprehensive's data is proprietary and restricted. Orbyt Salary Intelligence is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. You can cite it in a policy document, embed it in a transparency report, train a model on it, redistribute it in a derivative product, all with attribution. For anyone building on top of salary data, the license is the feature that matters.
Projections through 2030
Comprehensive.io tells you today. Orbyt tells you 2030.
Director of Engineering, Microsoft (Seattle). Annual total comp, projected year over year with methodology disclosed.
Feature by feature.
| Feature | Orbyt Intelligence | Comprehensive.io |
|---|---|---|
| Public API with free tierDecisive | ||
| MCP support for AI agentsDecisive | ||
| Total comp breakdown | ||
| Roles covered | 3,500+ | Startup subset |
| Cities covered (U.S.) | 81 | Major hubs |
| Forward projections to 2030 | ||
| Non-startup company coverage | Broad (FAANG, enterprise, public) | Limited |
| Update cadence | Quarterly | Real-time from customers |
| Data licenseDecisive | CC BY 4.0 | Proprietary |
| Pricing transparent | Yes (paid tiers) | |
| Free consumer UX to browse | ||
| OpenAPI spec published | ||
| Target buyer | Developers, AI teams, candidates, HR | Startup HR/People teams |
Based on publicly available feature lists and documentation as of Q2 2026. Updated quarterly.
Orbyt Intelligence covers the market Comprehensive does not. 3,500 roles across 81 U.S. cities. AI labs, Big Tech, enterprise SaaS, public companies, non-tech industries. Free public API. MCP for AI agents. CC BY 4.0 license. The word Comprehensive describes one of these two products. It is not the one with that name.
They named their product Comprehensive. We built the comprehensive dataset. Names are cheap. Coverage is not.
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