Every category where a model named WarpStream 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
Streaming platforms	Data platform	4%	7 of 78	27%	11	criticized challenger

Movement

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

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels2

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative23 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“WarpStream (Best for Cloud-Native & Zero Cross-AZ Fees) ... reduces infrastructure costs by up to 80%” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Streaming · budget prompt · first choice

“Best overall cost pick: WarpStream” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Streaming · budget prompt · first choice

“A high-volume, cost-sensitive streaming solution that provides a simplified approach to using Apache Kafka” Llama 4 Maverick · Streaming · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Choose WarpStream if you are running massive, high-throughput pipelines” Gemini 3.5 Flash · 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.

“it is Confluent-owned, so it may not satisfy teams trying to diversify away from a single vendor ecosystem” Perplexity Sonar · Streaming · negative prompt · soft negative

“Kafka-compatible "drop-in" replacements (e.g., Redpanda, WarpStream, AutoMQ) — Why to be wary” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Streaming · negative prompt · soft negative

“it's owned by Confluent and may not be a neutral Apache Kafka broker replacement” Llama 4 Maverick · Streaming · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as WarpStream, over the 23 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and WarpStream was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Redpanda22 of 236Not in the top three

Confluent Cloud17 of 236Not in the top three

Apache Kafka17 of 232Not in the top three

Amazon MSK16 of 232Not in the top three

Apache Pulsar12 of 231Not in the top three

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams11 of 230Not in the top three

Google Cloud Pub/Sub11 of 230Not in the top three

Azure Event Hubs10 of 230Not in the top three

Aiven for Apache Kafka7 of 232Not in the top three

AutoMQ6 of 230Not 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 WarpStream. 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 13 of the 23 answers that named WarpStream and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

automq.com9

confluent.io8

estuary.dev7

guideflow.com7

devopsschool.com6

tinybird.co6

modern-datatools.com5

redpanda.com5

cotocus.com4

gartner.com3

Sixty of the sixty domain citations in answers naming WarpStream came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/event-streaming-software7

automq.com/blog/top-10-event-streaming-platforms-confluent-msk-redpanda-alternatives5

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-event-streaming-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison5

estuary.dev/blog/confluent-alternatives5

cotocus.com/blog/top-10-event-streaming-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison4

estuary.dev/blog/kafka-alternatives4

tinybird.co/blog/apache-kafka-alternatives4

confluent.io/compare/redpanda-vs-kafka-vs-confluent3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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