Signal
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video conferencing | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 12 of 50 | 0% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by Zoom Workplace at 42% | |
| Client-side protection | Security operations | 0% | 67 of 120 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by cside at 13% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Signal across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If privacy is the primary requirement, Signal and Threema are the only video-call apps Mozilla singled out as "Best Of"” Muse Glimmer 30B · Video conferencing · negative prompt · first choice
“For high-sensitivity private conversations, switch to Signal or Jami.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Video conferencing · negative prompt · first choice
“Best for sensitive personal calls (true end-to-end encryption, open source)” Kimi K2 · Video conferencing · negative prompt · first choice
“Use communication platforms that fiercely resist CSS mandates (like Signal or Proton Mail)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Client-side protection · negative 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.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Signal, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Signal was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 11 of the 13 answers that named Signal and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for Signal, so its own site is not marked.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Signal stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 201,000 a month (“signal”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 115,772 a month
- Its own site
- No site of its own on file, so no site figures
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 13 answers
- Its own site cited
- No site on file to match
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.
Follow Signal
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.
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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 Signal'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 Signal, 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 Signal by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Signal 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 Signal, 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.