Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 32 → 27 of 42
1 category · Named, not rankedHelm
8Judge labels
0First choices
3Negative labels
5 / 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.
Standing
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Helm was named 4 times in IaC, where Terraform led with 57%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business28 of 47
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market43 of 59
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise27 of 69
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
In iac · 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 Helm 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure as code | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 43 of 59 | 50% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Terraform at 57% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Helm held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · IaC · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 19 → 39 of 51
EnterprisenewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 24 of 57, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IaC | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 19 → 43 of 59 |
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 Helm 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 Helm 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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
Comparative3 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 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.
“✅ Kubernetes: Helm/Kustomize + Argo CD or Flux (GitOps)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · alternative
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.
“Helm is useful, but it's easy to overuse for infrastructure-like deployments; security and chart-complexity concerns are well documented” GPT-5.4 mini · IaC · negative prompt · soft negative
“Over-reliance on Helm for infrastructure provisioning can lead to security and maintainability issues” Mistral Small · IaC · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Helm, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Helm was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Helm, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Helm 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 Helm. 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 8 of the 8 answers that named Helm and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pulumi.com7
spacelift.io5
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com4
firefly.ai4
guideflow.com4
sentinelone.com4
trendmicro.com4
claranet.com3
harness.io3
linkedin.com3
Forty-one of the forty-one domain citations in answers naming Helm came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
What it publishes
ShowHide
What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on helm.sh
568
subdomains included
Content
95
counted in the table below
Documentation
336
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 86 | 0 | 2025-08-19 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 2 | 0 | 2019-04-18 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2025-08-19Debian helm repository move blog
- 2024-11-08Experience helm release kubecon na 24 blog
- 2021-03-05Helm 2nd security audit blog
- 2020-11-13Helm 2 becomes unsupported blog
- 2020-10-30Charts repo deprecation blog
- 2020-04-30Celebrating helms cncf graduation blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page helm.sh 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 September 29, 2026.
Names read as Helm
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Helm; a claim can dispute any of them.
Helm/Kustomize 1Kubernetes YAML/Kustomize/Helm 1
Follow Helm
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
Helm is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Helm is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The package manager for Kubernetes
- For
- security researchers and users
- Certifications
- a graduated project in the CNCFCNCF graduated project
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting, customers
What Helm's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: helm.sh, helm.sh/community/SECURITY. 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 Helm'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 Helm, 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 Helm by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Helm 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 Helm, 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.