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Adobe Creative Cloud

7Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative labels

6 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10-05.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Adobe Creative Cloud was named 5 times in Creative automation, where Bannerflow led with 19%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market40 of 109

under the label threshold

Enterprise28 of 88

under the label threshold

In creative automation · 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 Adobe Creative Cloud 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
Creative automation platforms	Marketing	0%	40 of 109	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by Bannerflow at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Adobe Creative Cloud yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Adobe Creative Cloud across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	0	1

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative4 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

“The industry standard for professional creatives. It combines the full suite of apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) with Adobe's generative AI, Firefly.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Creative automation · comparative prompt · first choice

“If you need professional-grade design tools with some automation, Adobe is best.” Mistral Small · Creative automation · comparative 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.

“Long history of billing complaints - Subscription complexity issues” Kimi K2 · Creative automation · negative prompt · soft negative

“professional quality but higher cost” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Creative automation · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Adobe Creative Cloud, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Adobe Creative Cloud was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Canva4 of 70Not among the top eight

Bannerflow3 of 70Not among the top eight

Figma3 of 70Not among the top eight

Celtra2 of 71Not among the top eight

Adobe Express2 of 70Not among the top eight

Bynder2 of 70Not among the top eight

Canva for Enterprise2 of 70Not among the top eight

Hunch2 of 70Not among the top eight

Smartly2 of 70Not among the top eight

HubSpot Content Hub1 of 71Not among the top eight

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 Adobe Creative Cloud. 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 4 of the 7 answers that named Adobe Creative Cloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bannerflow.com3

dataintelo.com3

tryatria.com3

cflowapps.com2

optiow.com2

tryholo.ai2

webrand.com2

ziflow.com2

abyssale.com1

adflow.jp1

Twenty-one of the twenty-one domain citations in answers naming Adobe Creative Cloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dataintelo.com/report/creative-automation-platform-market3

bannerflow.com/blog/best-creative-automation-platforms-20262

cflowapps.com/creative-automation-platform-tools2

optiow.com/blog/creative-automation-tools-comparison2

tryatria.com/blog/creative-automation-tools2

tryholo.ai/blog/creative-automation-tools2

webrand.com/blog/enterprise-top-7-creative-automation-platform-streamline-workflow-20252

abyssale.com/best-creative-automation-platforms-compared1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Adobe Creative Cloud

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

Adobe Creative Cloud + Firefly 2Adobe Creative Cloud + Firefly AI 1

Follow Adobe Creative Cloud

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

Adobe is the company behind Adobe Creative Cloud.

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On record

Wikidata

Website: adobe.com
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 1982
Employees: about 25,988 (2021)
Ownership: Public, ABS on London Stock Exchange
Also from Adobe: Adobe AEM, Adobe Acrobat Sign, Adobe Advertising, Adobe Advertising Cloud DSP, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Analytics / Customer Journey Analytics, Adobe Audience Manager, Adobe Brand Visibility and 37 more

Fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · LinkedIn · Crunchbase

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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 Adobe Creative Cloud'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 Adobe Creative Cloud, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Adobe Creative Cloud by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Adobe Creative Cloud 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 Adobe Creative Cloud, 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.