Index › Vendors › IBM Watson Assistant · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

IBM Watson Assistant

7Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. IBM Watson Assistant was named 3 times in Support chatbots, where Intercom led with 35%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business77 of 84

under the label threshold

Mid-market36 of 106

under the label threshold

Enterprise97 of 122

under the label threshold

In support chatbots · 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 IBM Watson Assistant 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
Chatbots and conversational AI for support	Customer	0%	36 of 106	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Intercom at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for IBM Watson Assistant yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. 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 IBM Watson Assistant 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	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
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	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 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.

“IBM Watson Assistant: Strong compliance and on-prem options” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Support chatbots · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

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

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ada7 of 71Not in the top three

Botpress6 of 70Not in the top three

Intercom5 of 72Not in the top three

Google Dialogflow CX5 of 70Not in the top three

Amazon Lex4 of 70Not in the top three

Kore.ai4 of 70Not in the top three

Rasa4 of 70Not in the top three

Tidio3 of 72Not in the top three

Freshchat3 of 71Not in the top three

Cognigy3 of 70Not 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 IBM Watson Assistant. 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 1 of the 7 answers that named IBM Watson Assistant and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.happyfox.com1

blog.hubspot.com1

botpress.com1

capterra.com1

chatling.ai1

chatty.net1

eesel.ai1

elfsight.com1

featurebase.app1

fin.ai1

No domain is on file for IBM Watson Assistant, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

blog.happyfox.com/best-chatbot-for-customer-support1

blog.hubspot.com/service/customer-service-bots1

botpress.com/blog/customer-service-chatbot-platforms1

capterra.com/resources/customer-service-chatbot-platforms1

chatling.ai/blog/best-customer-support-chatbots1

chatty.net/blog/chatbot-for-customer-support1

eesel.ai/blog/best-ai-customer-support-chatbot1

elfsight.com/blog/best-chatbots-for-customer-service1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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