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Index › Vendors › Drone · September 2026 Edition

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Drone

3Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Drone was named 1 time in CI/CD, where GitHub Actions led with 65%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business31 of 55

under the label threshold

Mid-market30 of 45

under the label threshold

Enterprise34 of 41

under the label threshold

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 Drone 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
CI/CD platforms	Developer platform	0%	30 of 45	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by GitHub Actions at 65%

Movement

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

By model

How each model treated Drone across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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 Drone, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Drone was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GitHub Actions3 of 31Not in the top three

GitLab CI/CD3 of 31Not in the top three

CircleCI3 of 30Not in the top three

Jenkins3 of 30Not in the top three

Argo Workflows2 of 30Not in the top three

JetBrains TeamCity2 of 30Not in the top three

Azure Pipelines1 of 30Not in the top three

Buildbot1 of 30Not in the top three

Buildkite1 of 30Not in the top three

Concourse CI1 of 30Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 Drone. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 1 of the 3 answers that named Drone and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bipi.in1

blog.gitguardian.com1

buildkite.com1

cert.europa.eu1

cheatsheetseries.owasp.org1

circleci.com1

cisecurity.org1

cryptonews.net1

cybernews.com1

cyberscoop.com1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Drone came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

bipi.in/blog/circleci-breach-2023-lessons1

blog.gitguardian.com/ci-cd-security-risks1

buildkite.com/docs/pipelines/best-practices/security-controls1

buildkite.com/resources/blog/managed-self-hosted-or-hybrid-ci-cd-understand-your-options1

buildkite.com/resources/blog/secure-your-ci-cd-pipelines-with-clear-boundaries1

cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2024-0231

cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/CI_CD_Security_Cheat_Sheet.html1

circleci.com/blog/jan-4-2023-incident-report1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 Drone'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 Drone, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at drone.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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