Every category where a model named Argo CD 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
CI/CD platforms	Developer platform	0%	9 of 45	8%	12	accepted challenger
Infrastructure as code	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	30 of 46	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Terraform at 46%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Argo CD yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Argo CD across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	5	0	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	0	2
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	1	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative7 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative24 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Combine a standard CI tool (like GitHub Actions for building images) with Argo CD for deploying” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CI/CD · comparative prompt · alternative

“The gold standard if your deployment target is strictly Kubernetes (GitOps).” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CI/CD · scale prompt · alternative

“Use Argo CD (an open-source GitOps controller) for the CD part.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CI/CD · direct prompt · alternative

“GitOps-first Deployment (for Kubernetes): Argo CD or Flux” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CI/CD · negative 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.

“Argo CD deserve special scrutiny because they sit very close to cluster privileges” GPT-5.4 mini · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Argo CD, over the 24 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Argo CD was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GitLab CI/CD21 of 246Not in the top three

Jenkins20 of 240Not in the top three

GitHub Actions17 of 2410Not in the top three

CircleCI14 of 240Not in the top three

Harness10 of 240Not in the top three

Azure DevOps9 of 240Not in the top three

JetBrains TeamCity7 of 240Not in the top three

Buildkite6 of 241Not in the top three

Flux5 of 240Not in the top three

Travis CI5 of 240Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Argo CD. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 13 of the 24 answers that named Argo CD and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.jetbrains.com6

checkthat.ai5

deployhq.com5

toolradar.com5

devopsness.com4

octopus.com4

reddit.com4

siit.io4

cicdcalculator.com3

circleci.com3

Forty-three of the forty-three domain citations in answers naming Argo CD came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2026/03/best-ci-tools5

deployhq.com/blog/best-ci-cd-software-top-10-tools-to-know-in-20255

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-ci-cd-tools4

toolradar.com/blog/best-ci-cd-tools4

devopsness.com/blog/best-cicd-platforms3

octopus.com/devops/ci-cd/ci-cd-tools-for-enterprise3

thesoftwarescout.com/best-ci-cd-tools-2026-complete-guide-to-continuous-integration-deploy3

blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2026/06/bamboo-end-of-life2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Argo CD

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Argo CD; a claim can dispute any of them.

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