Every category where a model named Qdrant 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
Vector databases	Data platform	37%	1 of 24	5%	63	endorsed leader

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Qdrant 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 Qdrant across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	1	1	4
GPT-5.4 mini	3	0	2	0	5
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	5	0	0	6
Perplexity Sonar	3	0	1	1	5
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	4	1	0	6
Mistral Small	1	1	2	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	1	2	0	6
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	0	1	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	3	1	0	5
Kimi K2	1	5	0	0	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	3	2	0	7
MiniMax M2.5	2	4	0	0	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

Direct31 labels7

Paraphrase26 labels12

Comparative35 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained36 labels23

Scale-constrained23 labels2

Negative28 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative179 labels in all, every segment counted; 44 of the 54 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 a budget-conscious company, Qdrant or Weaviate are generally recommended. Qdrant offers the best performance-to-cost ratio” MiniMax M2.5 · Vector databases · budget prompt · first choice

“the best default choice is usually Qdrant if you want a production-ready open-source vector database with low operational cost” GPT-5.4 mini · Vector databases · budget prompt · first choice

“Best overall budget pick: Qdrant — it is repeatedly described as the strongest price-performance option” Perplexity Sonar · Vector databases · budget prompt · first choice

“If I had to pick one best general-purpose option for a mid-market B2B company, I'd say: Qdrant” GPT-5.4 mini · Vector databases · direct 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.

“Weaviate, Milvus, Pinecone, and Qdrant are all losing adoption share to custom stacks and provider-native retrieval options.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Vector databases · negative prompt · soft negative

“Vector-only DBs such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus | When you also need SQL/JSON/transactions in the same system” Perplexity Sonar · Vector databases · negative prompt · soft negative

“it may not be the best choice for those that want zero ops overhead” Llama 4 Maverick · Vector databases · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Qdrant, over the 176 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Qdrant was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Pinecone167 of 17635Compare →

Weaviate162 of 1763Not in the top three

pgvector140 of 17648Compare →

Milvus100 of 1761Not in the top three

Chroma74 of 1764Not in the top three

Milvus / Zilliz Cloud29 of 1760Not in the top three

Zilliz Cloud23 of 1763Not in the top three

LanceDB23 of 1760Not in the top three

Redis22 of 1760Not in the top three

Elasticsearch20 of 1760Not 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 Qdrant. 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 151 of the 176 answers that named Qdrant and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

firecrawl.dev100

encore.dev86

dev.to61

iternal.ai45

g2.com42

medium.com38

marktechpost.com36

atlan.com32

redis.io30

zenml.io30

500 of the 500 domain citations in answers naming Qdrant came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

firecrawl.dev/blog/best-vector-databases100

encore.dev/articles/best-vector-databases86

iternal.ai/insights/best-vector-databases-202645

g2.com/articles/best-vector-databases42

dev.to/michaelaiglobal/beyond-pinecone-a-developers-deep-dive-into-the-top-10-vector-datab32

atlan.com/know/top-vector-databases-enterprise-ai31

marktechpost.com/2026/05/10/best-vector-databases-in-2026-pricing-scale-limits-and-archite30

zenml.io/blog/vector-databases-for-rag30

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Qdrant

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

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