Small business▼−17Since September 2026: 93% → 76%, −17 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
76%from 93% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 6 pointsRank 1 of 39, unchanged
GitHub · 1 category · RankedGitHub Actions
210Judge labels
93First choices
24Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
75% in CI/CD for small business buyers
Rank 1 of 43 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
10 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 7% of its 68 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of GitHub Actions →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business1 of 41
75%74 labels
endorsed leader
Mid-market1 of 43
68%68 labels
endorsed leader
Enterprise2 of 47
19%65 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 GitHub Actions 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 | 68% | 1 of 43 | 7% | 68 | endorsed leader | ▼−2Since September 2026: 65% → 63%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, GitHub Actions held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CI/CD · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 65% → 63%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
63%from 65% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 1 of 39, unchanged
Enterprise▲+1Since September 2026: 16% → 17%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
17%from 16% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 2 of 43, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI/CD | 65% | 63% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 65% → 63%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 1 of 43, 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 GitHub Actions 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 GitHub Actions 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 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
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
Direct36 labels30
Paraphrase34 labels21
Comparative39 labels25not counted in share
Budget-constrained40 labels27
Scale-constrained25 labels15
Negative36 labels12not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative210 labels in all, every segment counted; 93 of the 130 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 is the right default for the vast majority of teams in 2026, and it's where I'd start unless you have a specific reason not to."” Muse Glimmer 30B · CI/CD · budget prompt · first choice
“If teams are already on GitHub, GitHub Actions is the de facto default: bundled with GitHub Enterprise, 20,000+ marketplace actions.” Muse Glimmer 30B · CI/CD · scale prompt · first choice
“GitHub Actions | Teams already on GitHub Enterprise | Native integration, 20,000+ marketplace actions, SOC 2 certified” Kimi K2 · CI/CD · scale prompt · first choice
“If your code lives in GitHub, GitHub Actions is usually the most natural fit because of its repo-native workflows.” Perplexity Sonar · CI/CD · comparative 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.
“GitHub Actions workflows that trust third-party actions or pull-request code too much” GPT-6 Luna · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative
“This is currently the easiest place to start, but it can become the most expensive.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative
“Moderate Caution: GitHub Actions ... Common misconfigs in public pipelines” Grok 4.20 · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative
“Not exactly "avoid," but be aware of the caveats.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as GitHub Actions, over the 210 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GitHub Actions was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as GitHub Actions, over the 210 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GitHub Actions 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 GitHub Actions. 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 175 of the 210 answers that named GitHub Actions and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
blog.jetbrains.com98
atlassian.com58
dev.to55
cloud.folio3.com46
harness.io45
deployhq.com44
circleci.com42
octopus.com40
drizz.dev39
learn.g2.com39
506 of the 506 domain citations in answers naming GitHub Actions came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where GitHub Actions stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where GitHub Actions stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 18,100 a month (“github actions”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 2,044 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on GitHub's site (github.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
68%
rank 1 of 43 in CI/CD
First choices
93
across its categories
- Named in
- 210 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 175 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.
Follow GitHub Actions
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
GitHub is the company behind GitHub Actions.ShowHide
The company
GitHub is the company behind GitHub Actions.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows, now with world-class CI/CD.
- Free plan or trial
- GitHub Actions is free for public repositories. github.com/features/actions
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What GitHub Actions's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: github.com/features/actions, github.com/manual/gh_workflow, github.com/manual/gh_workflow_enable, github.com/manual/gh_workflow_disable, securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2026-225_actions_attest. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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 GitHub Actions'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 GitHub Actions, 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 GitHub Actions by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where GitHub Actions 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 GitHub Actions, 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 GitHub Actions 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 GitHub Actions is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideAI models recommend GitHub Actions 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.