Every category where a model named Azure DevOps 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%	6 of 45	12%	25	accepted challenger
Source control hosting	Developer platform	0%	5 of 23	14%	22	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Azure DevOps 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 Azure DevOps 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	3	2	0	5
GPT-5.4 mini	2	2	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	0	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	5	0	5
Mistral Small	1	3	1	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	0	3
Kimi K2	3	1	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	4	2	1	7
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	0	3

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

Direct25 labels2

Paraphrase17 labels2

Comparative30 labelsNone

Budget-constrained20 labels3

Scale-constrained22 labelsNone

Negative26 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative140 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 8 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.

“Highly popular if your company is a dedicated "Microsoft shop"... though Microsoft is increasingly steering newer customers toward GitHub Enterprise.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Source control · scale prompt · alternative

“Azure DevOps is the right call for an enterprise already standardized on Microsoft's identity and cloud stack” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Source control · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best For: Enterprise .NET development teams and organizations heavily tied into Azure cloud environments” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Source control · comparative prompt · alternative

“If you're already embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem, Azure DevOps is also a solid choice” MiniMax M2.5 · CI/CD · direct 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.

“GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps have all been targeted in recent supply-chain intrusions and credential theft campaigns.” Mistral Small · Source control · negative prompt · soft negative

“requires significant YAML scripting expertise for setup and lacks automated deployment verification” Llama 4 Maverick · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative

“similarly a proprietary cloud service tied to Microsoft's ecosystem and policies” Perplexity Sonar · Source control · negative prompt · soft negative

“leaving Azure DevOps primarily in maintenance/support mode” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Azure DevOps, over the 140 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure DevOps was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GitHub77 of 14045Not in the top three

GitLab CI/CD68 of 14022Not in the top three

GitLab67 of 14014Not in the top three

Bitbucket67 of 1400Not in the top three

Jenkins61 of 1403Not in the top three

GitHub Actions58 of 14031Not in the top three

CircleCI57 of 1402Not in the top three

Gitea28 of 1400Not in the top three

JetBrains TeamCity26 of 1400Not in the top three

Buildkite21 of 1402Not 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 Azure DevOps. 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 99 of the 140 answers that named Azure DevOps and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

toolradar.com44

blog.jetbrains.com31

deployhq.com27

checkthat.ai23

devopsness.com22

octopus.com22

mgsoftware.nl20

atlassian.com19

dev.to18

about.gitlab.com17

243 of the 243 domain citations in answers naming Azure DevOps came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

toolradar.com/blog/best-ci-cd-tools33

blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2026/03/best-ci-tools29

deployhq.com/blog/best-ci-cd-software-top-10-tools-to-know-in-202523

octopus.com/devops/ci-cd/ci-cd-tools-for-enterprise21

devopsness.com/blog/best-cicd-platforms20

mgsoftware.nl/en/tools/best-version-control-systems20

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-ci-cd-tools18

bmc.com/blogs/github-vs-gitlab-vs-bitbucket16

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Azure DevOps

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

Azure DevOps (Microsoft) 1Azure DevOps (Repos) 1Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) 1Azure DevOps / Azure Repos 1Azure DevOps Server 1Azure Pipelines / Azure DevOps 1

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