Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 19 → 17 of 84
2 categories · Named, not rankedWarpStream
18Judge labels
3First choices
0Negative labels
7 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
8 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. WarpStream was named 8 times in Streaming and 1 other category, where Confluent Cloud led with 39%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business17 of 88
2%5 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market11 of 98
2%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise7 of 81
2%5 labels
under the label threshold
In streaming · 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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streaming platforms | Data platform | 2% | 11 of 98 | 0% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Confluent Cloud at 39% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Telemetry pipelines | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 75 of 124 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37% |
Movement
Since September 2026, WarpStream held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Streaming · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 7 → 10 of 94
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 15 → 7 of 64
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streaming | 4% | 2% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 4% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 7 → 11 of 98 |
| Telemetry pipelines | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 75 of 124, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated WarpStream across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated WarpStream across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 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
Paraphrase3 labels1
Comparative5 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labels2
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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 & Medium-to-High Volume)... slashes infrastructure bills by up to 70% to 80%” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Streaming · budget prompt · first choice
“A diskless, brokerless Kafka alternative built entirely on top of S3/object storage. Eliminates expensive cross-AZ networking fees.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Streaming · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“Choose WarpStream or AutoMQ if: Your primary bottleneck is your cloud bill.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Streaming · comparative prompt · alternative
“WarpStream is excellent if you want to run it cheap in your own VPC.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Streaming · scale 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 WarpStream, over the 18 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as WarpStream, over the 18 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 WarpStream. 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 18 of the 18 answers that named WarpStream and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
redpanda.com11
automq.com9
conduktor.io8
confluent.io8
warpstream.comYour site8
tinybird.co7
devopsschool.com6
estuary.dev6
medium.com6
reddit.com6
Sixty-seven of the seventy-five domain citations in answers naming WarpStream came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
warpstream.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, WarpStream takes 2% of first choices and Confluent Cloud takes 39%.ShowHide
Search and answers
warpstream.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, WarpStream takes 2% of first choices and Confluent Cloud takes 39%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “event streaming platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “event streaming platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 880 a month (“warpstream”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 26 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 463 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 157 · 15 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 559
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 8 clicks and $191 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 11 of 98 in streaming
Segment leader
39%
Confluent Cloud
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 18 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 18 of the answers that named it
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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on warpstream.com
337
subdomains included
Content
72
counted in the table below
Documentation
237
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 68 | 61 | 2026-09-22 | Object storage | |
| Case study | 2 | 2 | 2026-09-01 | ||
| Comparison | 2 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-22Knock kinesis to warpstream migration blog
- 2026-09-02Anatomy of a serverless usage based billing system blog
- 2026-09-02Announcing bento the open source fork of the project formerly known as benthos blog
- 2026-09-02Announcing schema validation with aws glue schema registry blog
- 2026-09-02Announcing warpstream schema validation blog
- 2026-09-02Boring by design character ai blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page warpstream.com 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. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as WarpStream
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as WarpStream; a claim can dispute any of them.
WarpStream (BYOC) 1
Follow WarpStream
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
WarpStream is its own company.ShowHide
The company
WarpStream is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The original diskless, Apache Kafka®-compatible data streaming platform, built directly on top of object storage.
- For
- Developers
- Price stated
- Free tier available with paid plans warpstream.com
- Starting price
- 0 warpstream.com
- Free plan or trial
- Free tier available warpstream.com
- Integrations claimed
- 100 warpstream.com/pricing
- Certifications
- SOC 2 CertificationSOC 2 Type I and Type II compliantSOC 2 compliant
- Customers named
- Character.AIGoldskyGrafana LabsShareChatCursorRobinhoodSuperwallEternal
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What WarpStream's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: warpstream.com, warpstream.com/pricing, warpstream.com/customers, warpstream.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 WarpStream'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 WarpStream, 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 WarpStream by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where WarpStream 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 WarpStream, 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.