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 51 → 31 of 84
IBM Event Streams
16Judge labels
0First choices
3Negative labels
8 / 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
0% in Streaming for enterprise buyers
Rank 98 of 98 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 67% of its 3 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business33 of 88
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market98 of 98
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise13 of 81
0%11 labels
accepted challenger
In streaming · 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 IBM Event Streams 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streaming platforms | Data platform | 0% | 98 of 98 | 67% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Confluent Cloud at 39% | =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, IBM Event Streams held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Streaming · 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 59 → 94 of 94
Enterprise=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 13 → 12 of 64
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streaming | 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 59 → 98 of 98 |
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 IBM Event Streams 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 IBM Event Streams 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 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 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
Direct3 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained1 labelNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 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.
“Officially deprecated — no new enhancements, only security fixes until end of support” Kimi K2 · Streaming · negative prompt · hard negative
“Deprecated — End of Marketing announcement. No further enhancements will be provided.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Streaming · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as IBM Event Streams, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Event Streams was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as IBM Event Streams, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Event Streams 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 IBM Event Streams. 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 16 of the 16 answers that named IBM Event Streams and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
dacast.com9
ibm.comYour site8
g2.com7
myhospitalnow.com7
apidog.com5
automq.com5
confluent.io5
devopsschool.com5
estuary.dev5
redpanda.com5
Fifty-three of the sixty-one domain citations in answers naming IBM Event Streams came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where IBM Event Streams stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where IBM Event Streams stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 90 a month (“ibm event streams”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 2 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on IBM's site (ibm.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 98 of 98 in streaming
Segment leader
39%
Confluent Cloud
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 16 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 16 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.
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The company
IBM is the company behind IBM Event Streams.ShowHide
The company
IBM is the company behind IBM Event Streams.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Build powerful event-streaming applications with IBM Event Streams.
- Hosting
- LondonUS-WestWashingtonDallas
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, customers
What IBM Event Streams's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: developer.ibm.com/series/java-streams, developer.ibm.com/articles/alternate-data-streams, developer.ibm.com/learningpaths/ibm-event-streams-badge, developer.ibm.com/articles/ha-dr-kafka-ibm-event-streams, developer.ibm.com/tutorials/developing-a-streams-processor-with-apache-kafka. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where IBM Event Streams 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 IBM Event Streams, 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.