Cisco · 4 categories · RankedCisco Webex
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video conferencing | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 9 of 50 | 24% | 37 | accepted challenger | |
| Business phone systems | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 24 of 75 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by RingCentral at 29% | |
| Communications APIs | Developer platform | 0% | 54 of 71 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Twilio at 43% | |
| Streaming platforms | Data platform | 0% | 60 of 98 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Confluent Cloud at 39% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Cisco Webex across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Focus on platforms like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Cisco Webex, or RingCentral that handle mid-sized enterprises well.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Video conferencing · scale prompt · alternative
“Choose Cisco Webex if you are in a highly regulated industry ... that demands strict compliance and security.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Video conferencing · comparative prompt · alternative
“best if your business is in a regulated or compliance-driven industry and security is a top priority” Perplexity Sonar · Business phones · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Best For: Large enterprises, healthcare, and government sectors requiring high security and reliability.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Video conferencing · 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.
“Sub-optimal data deletion policies” Kimi K2 · Video conferencing · negative prompt · hard negative
“In March 2025, Cisco disclosed a vulnerability in its Webex for BroadWorks platform that could allow unauthenticated attackers to access credentials remotely.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Video conferencing · negative prompt · soft negative
“still a proprietary cloud platform; it should be evaluated for security controls and fit for your sensitivity level rather than used blindly” Perplexity Sonar · Video conferencing · negative prompt · soft negative
“Platforms: Standard/Free tiers of Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex ... Avoid using the free or standard tiers of these platforms” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Video conferencing · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cisco Webex, over the 132 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco Webex was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 116 of the 132 answers that named Cisco Webex and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
375 of the 375 domain citations in answers naming Cisco Webex came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Cisco Webex stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 6,600 a month (“cisco webex”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 700 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Cisco's site (cisco.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 132 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 116 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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 Cisco Webex
Follow Cisco Webex
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
Cisco is the company behind Cisco Webex.ShowHide
The company
On record
Company records- Also from Cisco
- Cisco ACE, Cisco ACI, Cisco ACI / Tetration, Cisco AI Defense, Cisco ASA/Firepower, Cisco AnyConnect, Cisco AppDynamics, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure and 68 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Cisco's Webex Engineering Group is redefining the future of collaboration.
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Cisco Webex's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: talentbridge.cisco.com/job/software-engineer-webex-graduate-poland-56471. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 Cisco Webex'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 Cisco Webex, 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 Cisco Webex by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cisco Webex 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 Cisco Webex, 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.