Every category where a model named MuleSoft 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
Workflow automation and iPaaS	GTM data and infrastructure	0%	75 of 76	59%	22	criticized challenger

Movement

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

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

Direct8 labelsNone

Paraphrase14 labels3

Comparative11 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained7 labelsNone

Scale-constrained11 labelsNone

Negative10 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative61 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 5 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.

“Choose MuleSoft if you are: very API-centric, already an enterprise-scale IT organization” GPT-5.4 mini · Automation & iPaaS · direct prompt · alternative

“Considerations: Higher price point, steeper learning curve” MiniMax M2.5 · Automation & iPaaS · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Have complex API-first enterprise architecture | MuleSoft” Kimi K2 · Automation & iPaaS · 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.

“you likely want to avoid bloated legacy enterprise platforms (like MuleSoft) that require expensive, certified developers” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Automation & iPaaS · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“Avoid: MuleSoft unless you're already deeply committed to Salesforce's ecosystem” Kimi K2 · Automation & iPaaS · scale prompt · hard negative

“Avoid MuleSoft, Workato, and Tray.io (unless you are a major enterprise)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Automation & iPaaS · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid unless you're already in the Salesforce ecosystem” Mistral Small · Automation & iPaaS · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as MuleSoft, over the 61 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MuleSoft was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Workato56 of 6122Not in the top three

Boomi44 of 614Not in the top three

Zapier40 of 614Not in the top three

Make33 of 616Not in the top three

n8n32 of 611Not in the top three

Microsoft Power Automate30 of 613Not in the top three

Tray.ai21 of 613Not in the top three

Celigo17 of 616Not in the top three

SnapLogic11 of 611Not in the top three

Pipedream8 of 610Not 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 MuleSoft. 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 8 of the 61 answers that named MuleSoft and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

boomi.com3

docs.workato.com2

gartner.com2

learn.g2.com2

mulesoft.comYour site2

alphabold.com1

analyticsinsight.net1

apideck.com1

appseconnect.com1

atlassian.com1

Fourteen of the sixteen domain citations in answers naming MuleSoft came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

alphabold.com/choosing-the-right-ipaas-platform1

analyticsinsight.net/automation/top-10-workflow-automation-platforms-in-20261

apideck.com/blog/top-embedded-ipaas-solutions1

appseconnect.com/top-10-ipaas-platforms-of-2026-for-cios-it-leaders1

atlassian.com/agile/project-management/workflow-automation-software1

ayautomate.com/blog/best-workflow-automation-platforms1

boomi.com/content/report/forrester-wave1

boomi.com/platform1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as MuleSoft

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

MuleSoft (Anypoint Platform) 1MuleSoft (Anypoint) 1MuleSoft (Salesforce) 1

The company

MuleSoft.

Website: mulesoft.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2006
Ownership: Part of Salesforce

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

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