Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 4 → 3 of 46
1 category · RankedMotherDuck
44Judge labels
4First choices
2Negative 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
5% in Data warehouses for small business buyers
Rank 7 of 26 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 13 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of MotherDuck →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business3 of 49
5%30 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market7 of 26
0%13 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise6 of 42
2%1 label
under the label threshold
In data warehouses · 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 MotherDuck 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data warehouses | Data platform | 0% | 7 of 26 | 8% | 13 | accepted challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, MotherDuck held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Data warehouses · 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 → 7 of 25
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 10 → 6 of 37
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data warehouses | 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 → 7 of 26 |
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 MotherDuck 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 MotherDuck 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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
Direct6 labels1
Paraphrase5 labels1
Comparative10 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained11 labels1
Scale-constrained4 labels1
Negative8 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative44 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 10 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.
“MotherDuck being a leading affordable option, providing a powerful and fast data warehouse experience with predictable, low-cost pricing” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Data warehouses · budget prompt · alternative
“An emerging "Smart Hub" tool perfect for small-to-mid data where running a massive Snowflake cluster is overkill.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data warehouses · direct prompt · alternative
“Consider newer alternatives like MotherDuck for smaller workloads that eliminate idle warehouse costs” Kimi K2 · Data warehouses · negative prompt · alternative
“Ultra-Budget (Almost Free) ... Perfect for small teams, data exploration, and lightweight analytics.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Data warehouses · budget 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.
“startups like ClickHouse, Tinybird, or MotherDuck are popular, they carry different risks” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Data warehouses · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as MotherDuck, over the 44 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MotherDuck was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as MotherDuck, over the 44 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MotherDuck 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 MotherDuck. 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 42 of the 44 answers that named MotherDuck and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
clickhouse.com28
motherduck.comYour site28
fortegrp.com27
ovaledge.com26
fivetran.com18
atlan.com15
tinybird.co14
airbyte.com11
domo.com11
fastero.com10
160 of the 188 domain citations in answers naming MotherDuck came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
motherduck.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, MotherDuck takes 0% of first choices and Snowflake takes 49%.ShowHide
Search and answers
motherduck.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, MotherDuck takes 0% of first choices and Snowflake takes 49%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cloud data warehouse”
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not in the top ten
Position for “cloud data warehouses”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 5,400 a month (“motherduck”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 66 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 22,212 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 5,420 · 220 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,110
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 7 of 26 in data warehouses
Segment leader
49%
Snowflake
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 44 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 42 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 motherduck.com
2,253
subdomains included
Content
1,164
counted in the table below
Documentation
699
Product · Integration
71 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 400 | undated | Data warehouses | ||
| Blog | 275 | 14 | 2026-09-22 | Data warehouses | |
| Conference or event | 244 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 142 | undated | Data warehouses | ||
| Report or ebook | 34 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 29 | 1 | 2026-09-02 | ||
| Case study | 22 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 18 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-22Querying the entire internet 100 billion rows with motherduck blog
- 2026-09-21Dbt Charts on MotherDuck Declarative Dashboards blog
- 2026-09-21prompt_jev(): Text Classification in SQL, 50x Faster at 1% the Cost | MotherDuck blog
- 2026-09-16DuckDB Ecosystem Newsletter : September 2026 | MotherDuck blog
- 2026-09-15How to pick the right database blog
- 2026-09-14Your DuckDB Flock Deserves A Mother | MotherDuck blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- July 9, 2026WeAreDevelopers World CongressMesse Berlin, Berlin, Germany · sponsored
As the event pages on motherduck.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page motherduck.com 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 MotherDuck
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as MotherDuck; a claim can dispute any of them.
DuckDB + MotherDuck 1MotherDuck (DuckDB Cloud) 1MotherDuck (DuckDB) 1MotherDuck / DuckDB 1
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The company
MotherDuck is its own company.ShowHide
The company
MotherDuck is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The Cloud Data Warehouse Built on DuckDB
- For
- teams, applications, and AI agents
- Price stated
- Lite plan motherduck.com
- Starting price
- 0 motherduck.com
- Free plan or trial
- Start free; Try 7 Days Free; 10 GB free storage and 10 hours of free compute per month. No credit card required. motherduck.com
- Certifications
- SOCGDPRAICPA SOC II
- Hosting
- US-East-1EU region support
- Customers named
- Ahead ComputingDO SomethingGoodshipTogether AIFinQoreAheadComputingZero HealthReflex
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What MotherDuck's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: motherduck.com, motherduck.com/docs/tags/security, motherduck.com/product, motherduck.com/case-studies, motherduck.com/docs/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 MotherDuck'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 MotherDuck, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for MotherDuck by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where MotherDuck 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 MotherDuck, 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.