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Claude

115Judge labels
2First choices
40Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in Enterprise AI for enterprise buyers
Rank 19 of 145 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 22% of its 23 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Claude →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In enterprise ai · 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 Claude 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Enterprise AI assistantsData platform0%19 of 14522%23accepted challenger
AI coding assistantsDeveloper platform0%29 of 4825%4under 10 labels · led by GitHub Copilot at 75%▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
AI IT support agentsIT operations and endpoint0%116 of 121100%1under 10 labels · led by Freshservice with Freddy AI at 11%
AI security platformsSecurity operations0%213 of 233100%1under 10 labels · led by SentinelOne Singularity at 11%
ML platformsData platform0%58 of 1070%1under 10 labels · led by Azure Machine Learning at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Claude yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Claude across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500202
GPT-5.4 mini00011
Gemini 3.5 Flash01012
Perplexity Sonar00112
Grok 4.2001203
Mistral Small01102
DeepSeek V4 Flash03104
Llama 4 Maverick00123
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K202103
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.501012
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B00123

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
Direct17 labels1
Paraphrase5 labelsNone
Comparative23 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained18 labels1
Scale-constrained7 labelsNone
Negative45 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative115 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 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.

“Best used alongside another tool (like Glean or Copilot) rather than as a standalone company-wide assistant.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Enterprise AI · direct prompt · alternative
“It's worth evaluating alongside ChatGPT when document analysis, writing, or code work is central.” GPT-6 Luna · Enterprise AI · comparative prompt · alternative
“Claude for deep reasoning, massive context windows, and safety-focused regulated industries” Kimi K2 · Enterprise AI · comparative prompt · alternative
“Enterprise versions with data privacy guarantees (e.g., ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude Enterprise)” MiniMax M2.5 · Enterprise AI · negative 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.

“Consumer-grade AI platforms like free/public ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude, as they do not meet enterprise AI compliance requirements” Llama 4 Maverick · AI security · negative prompt · hard negative
“Free ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude etc. are not designed for enterprise data handling.” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI IT agents · negative prompt · hard negative
“Same issues with data being used for training” MiniMax M2.5 · Enterprise AI · negative prompt · hard negative
“all four dominant enterprise AI assistants ... have potential risks and concerns associated with them. Therefore, it is recommended to be cautious” Llama 4 Maverick · Enterprise AI · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Claude, over the 109 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Claude was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
ChatGPT94 of 10929Not among the top eight
Microsoft 365 Copilot56 of 10923Not among the top eight
Google Gemini51 of 1090Not among the top eight
GitHub Copilot23 of 1097Not among the top eight
Microsoft Copilot17 of 1091Not among the top eight
Amazon Q16 of 1094Not among the top eight
Tabnine13 of 1093Not among the top eight
Glean12 of 1092Not among the top eight
Google Gemini for Workspace11 of 1091Not among the top eight
Cursor11 of 1090Not among the top eight
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 Claude. 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 105 of the 109 answers that named Claude and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

resources.rework.com41
slite.com33
intuitionlabs.ai32
coworker.ai28
glean.com21
perceptis.ai21
microsoft.com19
moveworks.com19
linkedin.com18
fast.io13

245 of the 245 domain citations in answers naming Claude came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

claude.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Claude takes 0% of first choices and ChatGPT takes 25%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “enterprise ai assistant”
–
not in the top ten
Position for “enterprise ai assistants”
–
not in the top ten
Searches for its name, Google
5,000,000 a month (“claude”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
53,240 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 3,090,945 a month
Searches its site ranks for
16,570 · 7,051 in the top three
Sites linking to it
66,862
Paid Google search
12 searches its ads show for, about 265 clicks and $1,889 a month (estimate)
Ads on GoogleDetailLess
120+ ads · 94 text, 26 video · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown July 2025, as Anthropic, PBC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 119 in the year, 1 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 19 of 145 in Enterprise AI
Segment leader
25%
ChatGPT
First choices
2 across its categories
Named in
109 answers
Its own site cited
in 105 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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Addresses on claude.com
12,594
subdomains included
Content
1,511
counted in the table below
Documentation
3,958
Product · Integration
59 · 1,221
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Glossary or explainer821undated
Blog376undated
Case study283undated
Webinar or virtual event13undated
Comparison6undated
Report or ebook4undated
Conference or event3undated
Template or tool3undated
News or press2undated
How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page claude.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 Claude

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Claude; a claim can dispute any of them.
Claude Enterprise 9Claude Enterprise (Anthropic) 3Claude Team 3Anthropic's Claude Enterprise 2ChatGPT/Claude 1Claude (Enterprise) 1Claude (public version) 1Claude (via Cursor or API) 1Claude / Claude Code on consumer accounts 1Claude Free 1

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The company

Claude is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Claude is a next generation AI assistant built by Anthropic and trained to be safe, accurate, and secure to help you do your best work.
For
for you to do your best work
Price stated
Free $0; Pro $17 per month with annual subscription discount ($200 billed up front). $20 if billed monthly; Max From $100 per month claude.com
Starting price
0 claude.com
Free plan or trial
Try Claude claude.com
Customers named
GustoCarvanaAnthropicNotionSlackFigmaHubSpot
Not stated on the pages read
Integrations, certifications, hosting

What Claude's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: claude.com, claude.com/pricing, claude.com/contact-sales/security, claude.com/product/tag, claude.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Claude by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Claude 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 Claude, 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.
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A verification link goes to your work email; an address at claude.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.