Small business▲+9Since September 2026: 5% → 14%, +9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
14%from 5% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 2 pointsRank 2 of 39, unchanged
GitLab · 1 category · RankedGitLab CI/CD
225Judge labels
44First choices
25Negative 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
42% in CI/CD for enterprise buyers
Rank 2 of 43 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 7% of its 73 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of GitLab CI/CD →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business2 of 41
15%76 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market2 of 43
23%73 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise1 of 47
42%76 labels
endorsed leader
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 GitLab CI/CD 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 | 23% | 2 of 43 | 7% | 73 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 27% → 27%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, GitLab CI/CD held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CI/CD · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 27% → 27%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
27%from 27% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 2 of 39, unchanged
Enterprise▼−1Since September 2026: 44% → 43%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
43%from 44% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 1 of 43, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI/CD | 27% | 27% | =heldSince September 2026: 27% → 27%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 2 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 GitLab CI/CD 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 GitLab CI/CD 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 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
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
Direct39 labels13
Paraphrase41 labels17
Comparative41 labels6not counted in share
Budget-constrained37 labels5
Scale-constrained30 labels9
Negative37 labels6not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative225 labels in all, every segment counted; 44 of the 56 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.
“Some of the top recommendations include: 1. GitLab CI: A comprehensive CI/CD solution integrated within the GitLab DevSecOps platform.” Llama 4 Maverick · CI/CD · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD offer the best combination of features, ease of use, and generous free tiers.” Kimi K2 · CI/CD · budget prompt · first choice
“GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD are the safest defaults if you're already on those ecosystems” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CI/CD · scale prompt · first choice
“Startups/Open Source: GitHub Actions or GitLab CI (free tiers are generous)” Kimi K2 · 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.
“Over 810 hours, caused by faulty updates and overload of CI/CD services during periods of heavy traffic.” Muse Glimmer 30B · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative
“GitLab specifically warns about shared non-ephemeral runners and privileged containers” GPT-6 Luna · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative
“Vendor Lock-in Risk ... Self-hosted GitLab is notoriously resource-hungry.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative
“Steeper learning curve ... Cost – Enterprise pricing can be significant” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as GitLab CI/CD, over the 223 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GitLab CI/CD was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as GitLab CI/CD, over the 223 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GitLab CI/CD 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 GitLab CI/CD. 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 188 of the 223 answers that named GitLab CI/CD and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
blog.jetbrains.com107
atlassian.com61
dev.to53
cloud.folio3.com49
harness.io49
learn.g2.com49
circleci.com43
deployhq.com43
octopus.com43
zendikt.com41
538 of the 538 domain citations in answers naming GitLab CI/CD came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
gitlab.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, GitLab CI/CD takes 23% of first choices and GitHub Actions takes 68%.ShowHide
Search and answers
gitlab.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, GitLab CI/CD takes 23% of first choices and GitHub Actions takes 68%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ci/cd platform”
5
Position for “ci/cd platforms”
5
- Searches for its name, Google
- not counted (“gitlab ci/cd”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 186 a month
- Its company's site
- gitlab.com shared with GitLab's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 603,028 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 45,795 · 4,976 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 200,375
- Paid Google search
- 4 searches its ads show for, about 39 clicks and $884 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
23%
rank 2 of 43 in CI/CD
Segment leader
68%
GitHub Actions
- First choices
- 44 across its categories
- Named in
- 223 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 188 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.
Names read as GitLab CI/CD
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as GitLab CI/CD; a claim can dispute any of them.
GitLab CI 14GitLab 3GitLab CE/EE 1GitLab Community Edition (CE) 1GitLab Premium 1
Follow GitLab CI/CD
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
GitLab is the company behind GitLab CI/CD.ShowHide
The company
GitLab is the company behind GitLab CI/CD.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Draft and validate GitLab CI pipelines without leaving your editor.
- For
- A compatible editor or agent
- Price stated
- A free AI skill about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci-skill
- Free plan or trial
- A free AI skill that drafts and validates your `.gitlab-ci.yml` in your local editor. about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci-skill
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What GitLab CI/CD's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci-skill. 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 GitLab CI/CD'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 GitLab CI/CD, 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 GitLab CI/CD by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where GitLab CI/CD 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 GitLab CI/CD, 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 GitLab CI/CD 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 GitLab CI/CD is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideGitLab CI/CD is among the products AI models recommend 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.