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NATS Streaming

2Judge labels
0First choices
1Negative labels
2 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
2 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. NATS Streaming was named 2 times in Streaming, where Confluent Cloud led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market61 of 78
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
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 NATS Streaming 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Streaming platformsData platform0%61 of 7850%2under 10 labels · led by Confluent Cloud at 32%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for NATS Streaming 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 NATS Streaming across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200011
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 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.

“Best for: Real‑time control systems, edge computing, and scenarios where latency is critical.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Streaming · comparative 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.

“Deprecated 2023, EOL ... Officially deprecated in favor of NATS JetStream” Kimi K2 · Streaming · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as NATS Streaming, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and NATS Streaming was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Apache Kafka2 of 22Not in the top three
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams2 of 20Not in the top three
Apache Pulsar2 of 20Not in the top three
RabbitMQ2 of 20Not in the top three
Redpanda2 of 20Not in the top three
Apache Storm 2.x1 of 20Not in the top three
Azure Event Hubs1 of 20Not in the top three
Google Cloud Pub/Sub1 of 20Not in the top three
Knative eventing-rabbitmq1 of 20Not in the top three
NATS JetStream1 of 20Not 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 NATS Streaming. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named NATS Streaming and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

devopsschool.com2
acemq.com1
aitorcto.substack.com1
arxiv.org1
automq.com1
bestdevops.com1
blobstreaming.org1
confluent.io1
docs.dynatrace.com1
eventlive.pro1

Eleven of the eleven domain citations in answers naming NATS Streaming came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-event-streaming-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison2
acemq.com/blogs/why-not-use-rabbitmq1
aitorcto.substack.com/p/kafka-alternatives-for-real-time1
arxiv.org/html/2510.04404v21
automq.com/blog/pulsar-as-a-kafka-alternative-benefits-limits-and-migration-risks1
automq.com/blog/top-10-event-streaming-platforms-confluent-msk-redpanda-alternatives1
bestdevops.com/top-10-event-streaming-platforms-tools-in-2025-features-pros-cons-compariso1
blobstreaming.org/notes/event-streaming-platforms-20261

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as NATS Streaming

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as NATS Streaming; a claim can dispute any of them.
NATS Streaming (STAN) 1
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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 NATS Streaming'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 NATS Streaming, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at nats.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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