3 categories · RankedCube
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Embedded analytics | Data platform | 2% | 8 of 72 | 0% | 20 | accepted challenger | |
| IT financial management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 39 of 159 | 0% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9% | |
| Data virtualization | Data platform | 0% | 53 of 99 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Denodo at 28% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Cube 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 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Cube: An industry-standard "headless" semantic layer with an open-source core. It is excellent for high-concurrency, complex multi-tenancy, and has a native AI-agent API.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Embedded analytics · scale prompt · first choice
“Choose Cube or Omni if you are building a modern SaaS application that needs scalable, highly secure multi-tenancy” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Embedded analytics · comparative prompt · first choice
“Choose Cube if you need strong multi-tenant isolation and row-level security for SaaS embedding.” Perplexity Sonar · Embedded analytics · comparative prompt · first choice
“were built from the ground up for embedding” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Embedded analytics · negative prompt · first choice
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.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Cube, over the 49 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cube 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 48 of the 49 answers that named Cube and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
171 of the 201 domain citations in answers naming Cube came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cube.dev ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cube takes 2% of first choices and Metabase takes 22%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 90,500 a month (“cube”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 152,613 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 5,632 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,322 · 104 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,587
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 49 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 48 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
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 395 | 45 | 2026-09-22 | Embedded analytics, ETL | |
| Template or tool | 305 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 150 | undated | Embedded analytics, Data warehouses | ||
| Case study | 30 | undated | Embedded analytics | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 21 | 11 | 2026-09-28 | Embedded analytics | |
| Report or ebook | 14 | 0 | 2022-09-15 | ||
| Comparison | 13 | 5 | 2026-08-04 | ETL, Embedded analytics | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 4 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28What is natural language query glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-24What is generative bi glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-22Open source semantic layer blog
- 2026-09-21What is augmented analytics glossary or explainer
- 2026-09-17Archive blog
- 2026-09-17Cube snowflake coco blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cube.dev 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 October 5, 2026.
Names read as Cube
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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 Cube'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 Cube, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cube by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Cube 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 Cube, 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.