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	Since September 2026
CI/CD platforms	Developer platform	0%	9 of 43	0%	12	accepted challenger	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Infrastructure as code	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	23 of 59	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Terraform at 57%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Internal developer portals	Developer platform	0%	28 of 52	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Port at 53%

Movement

Since September 2026, Argo CD held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · CI/CD · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 13 → 26 of 39

Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 9 of 39, unchanged

Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 13 → 11 of 43

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
CI/CD	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 9 of 43, unchanged
IaC	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 27 → 23 of 59
Developer portals	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 28 of 52, 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 11 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 Argo CD across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	4	0	4
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1
Grok 4.20	0	1	1
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	2

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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative12 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 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.

“If you deploy heavily to Kubernetes, Argo CD is often better for deployment orchestration” Perplexity Sonar · CI/CD · comparative prompt · alternative

“ArgoCD runs inside your Kubernetes cluster and pulls configuration changes from Git” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CI/CD · scale prompt · alternative

“Reliable deployments to Kubernetes | Argo CD | The gold standard for GitOps” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CI/CD · comparative prompt · alternative

“Want GitOps on Kubernetes → Argo CD (with any CI that writes to Git).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CI/CD · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Argo CD, over the 30 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.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GitLab CI/CD26 of 308Not among the top eight

GitHub Actions23 of 3015Not among the top eight

Jenkins23 of 300Not among the top eight

CircleCI19 of 300Not among the top eight

Harness17 of 300Not among the top eight

JetBrains TeamCity11 of 300Not among the top eight

Azure Pipelines10 of 300Not among the top eight

Azure DevOps9 of 300Not among the top eight

Flux9 of 300Not among the top eight

AWS CodePipeline5 of 300Not among the top eight

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 Argo CD. 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 27 of the 30 answers that named Argo CD and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.jetbrains.com20

harness.io11

blog.railway.com10

siit.io10

octopus.com9

atlassian.com8

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com8

northflank.com8

accelq.com7

deployhq.com7

Ninety-eight of the ninety-eight domain citations in answers naming Argo CD came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2026/03/best-ci-tools19

siit.io/blog/best-ci-cd-tools9

blog.railway.com/p/best-ci-cd-tools-20268

accelq.com/blog/continuous-integration-tools7

atlassian.com/devops/devops-tools/cicd-tools7

deployhq.com/blog/best-ci-cd-software-top-10-tools-to-know-in-20257

learn.g2.com/best-continuous-delivery-tools7

youtube.com/shorts/17sw0ygRzQE6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

argoproj.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Argo CD takes 0% of first choices and GitHub Actions takes 68%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “ci/cd platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “ci/cd platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 3,600 a month (“argo cd”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 240 a month
Its company's site: argoproj.io shared with Argo's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site: about 182 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 110 · 3 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 595
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 edition

Share of first choices

rank 9 of 43 in CI/CD

Segment leader

68%

GitHub Actions

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 30 answers
Its own site cited: in 27 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 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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Follow Argo CD

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

Argo is the company behind Argo CD.

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On record

Company records

Also from Argo: Argo Workflows

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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 Argo CD'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 Argo CD, 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 Argo CD by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Argo CD 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 Argo CD, 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.