Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 39 of 79, unchanged
2 categories · Named, not rankedCanonical
3Judge labels
0First choices
0Negative labels
3 / 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.
Standing
2 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Canonical was named 2 times in Patching and 1 other category, where ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market43 of 85
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In patching · 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 Canonical 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patch management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 43 of 85 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus at 29% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Streaming platforms | Data platform | 0% | 36 of 98 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Confluent Cloud at 39% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Canonical held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Patching · by segment
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patching | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 43 of 85, unchanged |
| Streaming | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 36 of 98, 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 Canonical 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 Canonical 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase3 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 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.
“Canonical’s managed service is a strong alternative” Mistral Small · Streaming · paraphrase 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 Canonical, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Canonical was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Canonical, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Canonical 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 Canonical. 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 2 of the 3 answers that named Canonical and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
canonical.comYour site2
dattell.com2
automq.com1
instaclustr.com1
inteca.com1
jwx.com1
maestro.io1
pro.dailymotion.com1
redpanda.com1
risingwave.com1
Ten of the twelve domain citations in answers naming Canonical came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on canonical.com
12,678
subdomains included
Content
5,711
counted in the table below
Documentation
4,486
Product · Integration
27 · 13
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 5,100 | 81 | 2026-09-28 | Vector databases, NoSQL | |
| Conference or event | 295 | 1 | 2026-08-01 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 117 | 0 | 2024-11-01 | Cloud hosting | |
| Glossary or explainer | 98 | 2 | 2026-07-01 | Object storage, Vector databases | |
| Comparison | 39 | 0 | 2025-12-01 | IaC | |
| Case study | 25 | 0 | 2024-11-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 15 | 0 | 2026-04-01 | ||
| Report or ebook | 11 | 0 | 2023-11-01 | ||
| Podcast or video | 11 | 0 | 2024-01-01 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Charmed openshell alpha release blog
- 2026-09-28Charmed openshell alpha release blog
- 2026-09-23Ubuntu coming soon to qualcomm snapdragon x2 series platforms blog
- 2026-09-23Accelerating delivery of cve fixes with a new kernel release strategy blog
- 2026-09-23Ubuntu coming soon to qualcomm snapdragon x2 series platforms blog
- 2026-09-23Accelerating delivery of cve fixes with a new kernel release strategy blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page canonical.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.
Follow Canonical
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
Canonical is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Canonical is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Trusted open source for enterprises
- For
- enterprises
- Free plan or trial
- Ubuntu Pro free trial canonical.com
- Certifications
- FIPSCISDISA-STIGFedRAMPCIS Benchmark
- Customers named
- BT GroupEuropean Space AgencySBI BITSGrundiumLucid SoftwareESAFirmus
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, hosting
What Canonical's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: canonical.com, trust.canonical.com, canonical.com/solutions/ai, canonical.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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 Canonical'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 Canonical, 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 Canonical by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Canonical 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 Canonical, 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.