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Index › Vendors › Semaphore · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Semaphore

17Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

7 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

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Semaphore was named 6 times in CI/CD, where GitHub Actions led with 65%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business6 of 55

under the label threshold

Mid-market11 of 45

under the label threshold

Enterprise14 of 41

under the label threshold

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 Semaphore 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
CI/CD platforms	Developer platform	0%	11 of 45	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by GitHub Actions at 65%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative17 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.

“Choose Semaphore or CircleCI if build speed, parallelism, or pipeline performance is your top priority” Perplexity Sonar · CI/CD · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Semaphore is a strong option when speed and cost efficiency matter most” Perplexity Sonar · CI/CD · direct 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Semaphore, over the 17 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Semaphore was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GitHub Actions17 of 1712Not in the top three

GitLab CI/CD16 of 173Not in the top three

CircleCI15 of 170Not in the top three

Jenkins13 of 172Not in the top three

Buildkite10 of 170Not in the top three

JetBrains TeamCity5 of 170Not in the top three

Azure DevOps4 of 170Not in the top three

CloudBees CI2 of 171Not in the top three

AWS CodeBuild2 of 170Not in the top three

Azure Pipelines2 of 170Not 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 Semaphore. 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 17 of the 17 answers that named Semaphore and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

deployhq.com12

toolradar.com12

blog.jetbrains.com11

checkthat.ai10

semaphore.ioYour site10

devopsplatforms.com8

kuberns.com7

octopus.com7

topickz.com6

learn.g2.com5

Seventy-eight of the eighty-eight domain citations in answers naming Semaphore came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

deployhq.com/blog/best-ci-cd-software-top-10-tools-to-know-in-202512

blog.jetbrains.com/teamcity/2026/03/best-ci-tools11

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-ci-cd-tools10

toolradar.com/blog/best-ci-cd-tools10

semaphore.io/blog/best-ci-cd-tools9

devopsplatforms.com/buying-guides/best-ci-cd-platforms7

kuberns.com/blogs/best-cicd-tools7

octopus.com/devops/ci-cd/ci-cd-tools-for-enterprise6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Semaphore

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

Semaphore CE 1

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 Semaphore'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 Semaphore, 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 semaphore.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.