Every category where a model named Port 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
Internal developer portals	Developer platform	53%	1 of 52	7%	59	endorsed leader
Digital employee experience	IT operations and endpoint	0%	100 of 219	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by ControlUp at 13%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Port yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Port across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	0	2	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	1	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	4	2	0	1	7
Perplexity Sonar	1	3	0	0	4
Grok 4.20	1	0	0	1	2
Mistral Small	1	2	0	1	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	5	0	0	0	5
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	3	0	0	0	3
Kimi K2	5	1	0	0	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	2	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	3	1	1	0	5
GPT-6 Luna	3	2	0	1	6
Muse Glimmer 30B	4	0	0	0	4

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

Direct32 labels25

Paraphrase30 labels13

Comparative35 labels22not counted in share

Budget-constrained29 labels18

Scale-constrained27 labels11

Negative24 labels7not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative177 labels in all, every segment counted; 67 of the 96 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.

“Port is the best starting point for most teams in 2026, because it gives you a production portal in days without a platform team babysitting it.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Developer portals · budget prompt · first choice

“For most mid-sized B2B software companies today, Port gives the best balance of time-to-value, governance and mid-market pricing” Muse Glimmer 30B · Developer portals · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Port is often the best default for a mid-market B2B company because it offers a commercial, lower-effort path” Perplexity Sonar · Developer portals · direct prompt · first choice

“For most teams with limited budgets: Port is the best choice because it offers a genuinely useful free tier” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Developer portals · budget prompt · first choice

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.

“Port, if fully self-hosted/on-prem deployment is a hard requirement... confirm that those meet your actual data-residency and isolation requirements before committing.” GPT-6 Luna · Developer portals · negative prompt · soft negative

“Some portals, like Backstage and Port, are essentially user interfaces or catalogs that sit on top of your existing tools. They do not provide an execution layer” Mistral Small · Developer portals · negative prompt · soft negative

“High-Cost Enterprise SaaS Portals (e.g., Port, Cortex) ... Who should be cautious: Startups with tight budgets” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Developer portals · negative prompt · soft negative

“Blueprint learning curve | Fast setup, mid-large teams” Grok 4.20 · Developer portals · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Port, over the 177 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Port was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Backstage154 of 17732Compare →

Palo Alto Networks Cortex Cloud115 of 1772Compare →

OpsLevel97 of 1772Compare →

Roadie65 of 1774Not among the top eight

Humanitec54 of 1772Compare →

Atlassian Compass50 of 1771Not among the top eight

Qovery16 of 1773Not among the top eight

Red Hat Developer Hub15 of 1774Not among the top eight

Cycloid15 of 1770Not among the top eight

Spotify Backstage14 of 1770Not among the top eight

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 Port. 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 166 of the 177 answers that named Port and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

port.ioYour site95

cycloid.io92

dupple.com87

guideflow.com72

gartner.com66

opslevel.com55

lucaberton.com52

itechguides.com51

cortex.io49

northflank.com44

568 of the 663 domain citations in answers naming Port came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dupple.com/learn/best-internal-developer-portals87

gartner.com/reviews/market/internal-developer-portals64

guideflow.com/blog/internal-developer-platform60

lucaberton.com/blog/internal-developer-platforms-202652

cycloid.io/blog/top-11-internal-developer-platforms-idps-in-202647

port.io/blog/top-5-internal-developer-platform-tools47

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-6-internal-developer-portals-202639

northflank.com/blog/top-internal-developer-portals36

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Port stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “internal developer portal”

Position for “internal developer portals”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 90,500 a month (“port”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 598,288 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 7,729 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 2,282 · 185 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,335
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

53 ads · 31 text, 12 video, 10 image · 26 shown in the last 30 days

First shown February 2024, as Port IO LTD, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 35 in the year, 18 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

53%

rank 1 of 52 in developer portals

First choices

across its categories

Named in: 177 answers
Its own site cited: in 166 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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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Addresses on port.io

1,619

subdomains included

Content

335

counted in the table below

Documentation

1,182

Product · Integration

8 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Report or ebook	169	undated		AI coding, APM
Blog	97	90	2026-10-05	Developer portals
News or press	24	7	2026-09-22
Conference or event	12	1	2026-08-10	Developer portals
Comparison	11	6	2026-09-29
Case study	10	2	2026-08-10
Template or tool	8	undated
Glossary or explainer	4	1	2026-08-10

Most recent

2026-10-05Splitting integration pipeline blog
2026-10-04Github external custom properties blog
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2026-10-04Port plugin for coding agents blog
2026-10-01Gartner names port ai software factory platform blog
2026-10-01Scaling agentic sdlc without losing control blog

Events in person

Last twelve months

June 10, 2026Practical AI in Platform EngineeringTel Aviv · took part

As the event pages on port.io state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page port.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 October 5, 2026.

Names read as Port

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Port; a claim can dispute any of them.

Port (Port.io) 2Port (getport.io) 1Port/Cortex 1

Follow Port

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

Port is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The Agentic SDLC platform for building your own AI software factory that includes context, agent management and governance.
port.io
Certifications: SOC 2 Type 2 CertifiedGDPR CompliantISO 27001 CompliantCCPA CompliantOWASP Top TenISO 27001:2022SOC 2GDPR
Hosting: USAIrelandGermanyEurope
Customers named: dLocal
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations

What Port's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: port.io, trust.port.io. 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 Port'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 Port, 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 Port by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Port 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 Port, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Port is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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AI models recommend Port first in Internal developer portals this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

Show the code

<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/developer/internal-developer-portals/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/port--internal-developer-portals-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Internal developer portals, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Internal developer portals standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/developer/internal-developer-portals/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/port--internal-developer-portals-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Internal developer portals, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Internal developer portals standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

Show the code

<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/developer/internal-developer-portals/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/port--internal-developer-portals-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Internal developer portals, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Internal developer portals standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.