Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 2% → 6%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 3 of 39, unchanged
2 categories · RankedCircleCI
177Judge labels
5First choices
45Negative 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
5% in CI/CD for small business buyers
Rank 3 of 43 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 19% of its 64 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of CircleCI →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business3 of 41
5%67 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market3 of 43
4%64 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise46 of 47
0%45 labels
criticized 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 CircleCI 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 | 4% | 3 of 43 | 19% | 64 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 4% → 4%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Source control hosting | Developer platform | 0% | 13 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, CircleCI held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CI/CD · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 4% → 4%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 3 of 39, unchanged
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 8 → 42 of 43
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI/CD | 4% | 4% | =heldSince September 2026: 4% → 4%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 of 43, unchanged |
| Source control | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 13 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 CircleCI 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 CircleCI 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 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
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
Direct27 labels1
Paraphrase22 labelsNone
Comparative38 labelsNone
Budget-constrained30 labels3
Scale-constrained29 labels1
Negative31 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative177 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 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.
“GitHub Actions or CircleCI are the best starting points due to their generous free tiers and ease of use” Mistral Small · CI/CD · budget prompt · first choice
“CircleCI or GitLab CI are the best CI/CD platforms due to their balance of features, scalability, and cost” Mistral Small · CI/CD · direct prompt · first choice
“CircleCI if its execution environments, concurrency, or existing workflows are a particularly good match.” GPT-6 Luna · CI/CD · direct prompt · alternative
“CircleCI | Best-of-breed standalone CI/CD | Performance, reliability, strong enterprise support” Kimi K2 · CI/CD · scale 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.
“most companies have migrated to GitHub Actions to avoid paying for two separate platform subscriptions” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CI/CD · direct prompt · soft negative
“solid standalone CI tool, but it's CI-focused (not full CD) and has faced pricing pressure” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CI/CD · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Best for: Speed-critical builds, though free tier is more limited than competitors” Kimi K2 · CI/CD · budget prompt · soft negative
“evaluate CircleCI, but expect higher cost and migration effort vs staying native” Muse Glimmer 30B · CI/CD · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CircleCI, over the 177 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CircleCI was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CircleCI, over the 177 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CircleCI 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 CircleCI. 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 151 of the 177 answers that named CircleCI and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
blog.jetbrains.com87
dev.to51
atlassian.com50
circleci.comYour site45
deployhq.com43
cloud.folio3.com41
drizz.dev38
harness.io37
zendikt.com37
siit.io32
416 of the 461 domain citations in answers naming CircleCI came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
circleci.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, CircleCI takes 4% of first choices and GitHub Actions takes 68%.ShowHide
Search and answers
circleci.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, CircleCI takes 4% 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
- 4,400 a month (“circleci”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 207 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 133,932 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 12,088 · 965 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 15,277
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 3 of 43 in CI/CD
Segment leader
68%
GitHub Actions
- First choices
- 5 across its categories
- Named in
- 177 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 151 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 circleci.com
2,399
subdomains included
Content
1,115
counted in the table below
Documentation
454
Product · Integration
25 · 9
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 696 | 10 | 2026-09-23 | IaC, Feature flags | |
| Report or ebook | 267 | undated | MFA | ||
| Case study | 76 | 76 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Comparison | 42 | 6 | 2026-09-29 | SAST, NoSQL | |
| Glossary or explainer | 25 | 2 | 2026-07-28 | ||
| Template or tool | 5 | undated | |||
| News or press | 2 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | 0 | 2025-10-08 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page circleci.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 CircleCI
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Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
CircleCI is its own company.ShowHide
The company
CircleCI is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Autonomous validation for the AI era
- For
- modern teams
- Price stated
- $0 /month; Starting at $15 /month; Billed annually. circleci.com/pricing
- Starting price
- $0 /month circleci.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Try for free circleci.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type 2FedRAMP LI-SaaSCSA AI Trustworthy Pledge 2025GDPRAWS Advanced Technology PartnerCCPACPRAEU-US DPF
- Customers named
- GoogleOktaGOATKalshiHugging FaceGoSpotCheckPitchSaleCycle
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What CircleCI's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: circleci.com, circleci.com/pricing, trust.circleci.com, circleci.com/product, circleci.com/customers. 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 CircleCI'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 CircleCI, 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 CircleCI by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where CircleCI 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 CircleCI, 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.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where CircleCI is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where CircleCI is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideCircleCI is among the products AI models recommend first in CI/CD platforms this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.