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
CI/CD platforms	Developer platform	27%	2 of 45	5%	64	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for GitLab CI/CD 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 GitLab CI/CD across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	2	0	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	1	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	3	0	0	6
Perplexity Sonar	1	3	0	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	4	0	1	6
Mistral Small	2	2	3	0	7
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	5	0	0	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	1	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	4	2	0	6
Kimi K2	1	5	0	0	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	2	1	6
MiniMax M2.5	2	3	1	0	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

Direct35 labels13

Paraphrase33 labels11

Comparative36 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained34 labels5

Scale-constrained25 labels8

Negative33 labels8not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative196 labels in all, every segment counted; 37 of the 48 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.

“the best overall CI/CD platform is usually GitLab CI/CD if you want an integrated platform with built-in DevSecOps” Perplexity Sonar · CI/CD · direct prompt · first choice

“Shortlist: GitHub Actions (if GitHub-centric), GitLab (end-to-end), CircleCI (speed-focused).” Grok 4.1 Fast · CI/CD · scale prompt · first choice

“GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD are the undisputed leaders for mid-market B2B companies” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CI/CD · direct prompt · first choice

“For most mid-sized B2B companies, GitLab CI/CD or CircleCI are excellent choices” Mistral Small · CI/CD · paraphrase 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.

“When to be cautious: SaaS users needing high availability; self-hosted setups amplify risks if not updated.” Grok 4.1 Fast · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative

“The Caution: Stability & Downtime. ... Avoid GitLab.com (SaaS)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative

“its pricing model is also based on per-minute usage on SaaS” Llama 4 Maverick · CI/CD · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as GitLab CI/CD, over the 191 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GitHub Actions172 of 19193Compare →

Jenkins159 of 1913Not in the top three

CircleCI157 of 1912Compare →

Azure DevOps68 of 1912Not in the top three

Buildkite54 of 1912Not in the top three

JetBrains TeamCity48 of 1910Not in the top three

Harness38 of 1911Not in the top three

Bitbucket Pipelines23 of 1910Not in the top three

Argo CD21 of 1910Not in the top three

Azure Pipelines19 of 1910Not 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 GitLab CI/CD. 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 149 of the 191 answers that named GitLab CI/CD and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

toolradar.com91

deployhq.com69

blog.jetbrains.com63

checkthat.ai56

devopsness.com52

octopus.com49

devopsplatforms.com43

saaspedia.dev38

circleci.com31

technologymatch.com31

523 of the 523 domain citations in answers naming GitLab CI/CD came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

toolradar.com/blog/best-ci-cd-tools84

deployhq.com/blog/best-ci-cd-software-top-10-tools-to-know-in-202567

blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2026/03/best-ci-tools57

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-ci-cd-tools52

devopsness.com/blog/best-cicd-platforms51

octopus.com/devops/ci-cd/ci-cd-tools-for-enterprise42

devopsplatforms.com/buying-guides/best-ci-cd-platforms38

saaspedia.dev/posts/best-ci-cd-platforms38

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 9GitLab 5GitLab (SaaS) 1GitLab (Self-Managed CE) 1GitLab CI self-managed 1GitLab CI/CD Components 1GitLab Ultimate 1

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