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 4 → 7 of 39
2 categories · RankedBuildkite
60Judge labels
7First choices
9Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
11% in CI/CD for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 43 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 21% of its 19 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Buildkite →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business8 of 41
0%16 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market4 of 43
2%19 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise4 of 47
11%24 labels
accepted challenger
In ci/cd · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Buildkite 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 | 2% | 4 of 43 | 21% | 19 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Source control hosting | Developer platform | 0% | 12 of 33 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by GitHub at 70% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Buildkite held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CI/CD · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 7 → 4 of 39
Enterprise▲+5Since September 2026: 6% → 11%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
11%from 6% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 6 → 4 of 43
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI/CD | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 7 → 4 of 43 |
| Source control | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 12 of 33, 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 Buildkite across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Buildkite across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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
Direct9 labelsNone
Paraphrase4 labels1
Comparative11 labelsNone
Budget-constrained10 labels6
Scale-constrained18 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative60 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 7 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.
“Buildkite or GitLab CI/CD are excellent choices due to their balance of scalability, ease of use, and integration capabilities” Mistral Small · CI/CD · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Buildkite or Harness are worth strong consideration if you need high-scale performance or advanced CD capabilities.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CI/CD · scale prompt · alternative
“If you need more control over your infrastructure, Buildkite or TeamCity may be preferable.” Mistral Small · CI/CD · direct prompt · alternative
“Best for: Enterprise scale where you want control over build infrastructure with a managed UI.” Muse Glimmer 30B · 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.
“Consider Buildkite; it supports hosted and self-managed agents, but self-managed infrastructure adds operational work.” GPT-6 Luna · CI/CD · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“likely overkill for most mid-sized B2B companies” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CI/CD · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Great tools, but less favorable free tiers” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CI/CD · budget prompt · soft negative
“Buildkite – Single Point of Failure Risk” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Buildkite, over the 60 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Buildkite was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Buildkite, over the 60 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Buildkite was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Buildkite. 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 57 of the 60 answers that named Buildkite and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
blog.jetbrains.com34
deployhq.com19
buildkite.comYour site16
zendikt.com16
circleci.com15
atlassian.com14
about.gitlab.com13
cloud.folio3.com12
drizz.dev12
docs.github.com11
146 of the 162 domain citations in answers naming Buildkite came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
buildkite.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Buildkite takes 2% of first choices and GitHub Actions takes 68%.ShowHide
Search and answers
buildkite.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Buildkite takes 2% of first choices and GitHub Actions takes 68%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition 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 (“buildkite”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 98 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 3,563 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 796 · 57 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,729
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 18 clicks and $477 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 4 of 43 in CI/CD
Segment leader
68%
GitHub Actions
- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 60 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 57 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on buildkite.com
2,532
subdomains included
Content
719
counted in the table below
Documentation
1,563
Product · Integration
18 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 555 | 0 | 2025-12-02 | ||
| Template or tool | 87 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 26 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 22 | 0 | 2021-07-14 | ||
| Comparison | 11 | 2 | 2026-08-17 | ||
| News or press | 9 | undated | |||
| Case study | 6 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 0 | 2025-12-06 |
Most recent
- 2026-08-17Buildkite vs depot comparison
- 2026-08-17Buildkite vs github actions comparison
- 2025-12-10Devops vs devsecops comparison
- 2025-12-06What is ci cd glossary or explainer
- 2025-12-02Building ai powered ci workflows three practical examples blog
- 2025-12-02What ai is teaching us about ci blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- November 27, 2025Buildkite Sydney Users Group meetupAWS Australia Office, Sydney, Australia · hosted
As the event pages on buildkite.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page buildkite.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Buildkite
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Buildkite; a claim can dispute any of them.
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The company
Buildkite is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Buildkite is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The fastest CI for AI workflows at scale nothing else survives.
- For
- Leading software teams across industries
- Price stated
- Create an account to get started for free. buildkite.com
- Starting price
- 0 buildkite.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Start an all-access trial buildkite.com
- Certifications
- SOC2 Type II compliance
- Customers named
- UberRedditRipplingElasticShopifyIntercomPagerDutyREA Group
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Buildkite's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: buildkite.com, buildkite.com/pricing, trust.buildkite.com, buildkite.com/solutions, buildkite.com/resources/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Buildkite'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 Buildkite, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Buildkite by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Buildkite 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 Buildkite, 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.