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 53 → 39 of 39
2 categories · RankedJenkins
190Judge labels
1First choices
119Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in CI/CD for enterprise buyers
Rank 43 of 43 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 52% of its 65 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Jenkins →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business41 of 41
0%61 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market43 of 43
0%65 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise11 of 47
2%62 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 Jenkins 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 | 0% | 43 of 43 | 52% | 65 | criticized challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Source control hosting | Developer platform | 0% | 14 of 33 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by GitHub at 70% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Jenkins held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · CI/CD · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 → 39 of 39
Enterprise▼−6Since September 2026: 8% → 2%, −6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 8% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 5 → 10 of 43
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CI/CD | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 5 → 43 of 43 |
| Source control | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 14 of 33, 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 Jenkins 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 Jenkins 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 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 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
Direct28 labelsNone
Paraphrase31 labels1
Comparative35 labelsNone
Budget-constrained29 labelsNone
Scale-constrained26 labelsNone
Negative41 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative190 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.
“For maximum flexibility on a tight budget, Jenkins or GitLab Community Edition are excellent free, self-hosted options” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CI/CD · budget prompt · alternative
“Jenkins — Best for Complete Control (Self-Hosted) ... Cons: Requires dedicated DevOps expertise to maintain” Kimi K2 · CI/CD · budget prompt · alternative
“If you need maximum customization and have the DevOps resources, Jenkins is a strong open-source option.” Mistral Small · CI/CD · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Jenkins dominates self-hosted regulated environments where on-prem build infrastructure is non-negotiable.” Muse Glimmer 30B · CI/CD · scale 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.
“"Jenkins is often described as a legacy platform with high maintenance overhead... the maintenance burden outweighs the benefits."” Muse Glimmer 30B · CI/CD · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid fully self-hosted CI/CD control planes (like Jenkins) unless you have strict regulatory requirements that mandate it.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CI/CD · scale prompt · hard negative
“Many organizations are actively migrating away from Jenkins to more modern platforms due to these challenges.” Mistral Small · CI/CD · negative prompt · hard negative
“Skip unless you're in a regulated industry requiring fully self-hosted infra. It's operationally heavy” DeepSeek V4 Flash · CI/CD · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Jenkins, over the 190 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Jenkins was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Jenkins, over the 190 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Jenkins 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 Jenkins. 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 158 of the 190 answers that named Jenkins and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
blog.jetbrains.com92
atlassian.com58
dev.to53
harness.io48
cloud.folio3.com44
octopus.com42
circleci.com37
deployhq.com37
learn.g2.com37
drizz.dev36
484 of the 484 domain citations in answers naming Jenkins came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
jenkins.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Jenkins takes 0% of first choices and GitHub Actions takes 68%.ShowHide
Search and answers
jenkins.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Jenkins takes 0% of first choices and GitHub Actions takes 68%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ci/cd platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “ci/cd platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 33,100 a month (“jenkins”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 22,088 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 182,143 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 5,229 · 1,344 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 21,100
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 43 of 43 in CI/CD
Segment leader
68%
GitHub Actions
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 190 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 158 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on jenkins.io
10,949
subdomains included
Content
1,237
counted in the table below
Documentation
7,070
Product · Integration
22 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 965 | 20 | 2026-09-21 | ||
| Conference or event | 129 | 1 | 2026-08-24 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 47 | 0 | 2023-10-16 | ||
| Comparison | 46 | 0 | 2025-07-16 | ||
| Case study | 22 | 0 | 2026-03-29 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 10 | 1 | 2026-08-24 | ||
| Report or ebook | 8 | 0 | 2026-05-25 | ||
| Template or tool | 5 | 0 | 2025-08-05 | ||
| Podcast or video | 3 | 0 | 2015-02-01 | ||
| News or press | 2 | 0 | 2023-07-24 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-21Admin blog 02 blog
- 2026-09-11Arjun 713 final blog blog
- 2026-09-10Investigating build regressions from the last known good build blog
- 2026-09-08Daniele caldarigi gsoc final blog post blog
- 2026-09-07Adopt a modern idp without replacing your ci blog
- 2026-09-01Plugin of the month oras artifact manager blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- January 30, 2026Jenkins Contributor SummitBrussels · hosted
As the event pages on jenkins.io state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page jenkins.io 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 Jenkins
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Jenkins; a claim can dispute any of them.
Jenkins (with plugins) 1
Follow Jenkins
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
Jenkins is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Jenkins is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- the leading open source automation server
- For
- developers around the world
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Jenkins's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: jenkins.io, jenkins.io/security, jenkins.io/solutions. 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 Jenkins'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 Jenkins, 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 Jenkins by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Jenkins 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 Jenkins, 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.