Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 59 → 71 of 107
1 category · Named, not rankedPubNub
11Judge labels
1First choices
2Negative labels
7 / 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
3 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. PubNub was named 3 times in In-app messaging, where Intercom led with 21%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business72 of 108
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market33 of 105
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise19 of 98
2%7 labels
under the label threshold
In in-app messaging · 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 PubNub 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-app messaging and customer communications | Customer | 0% | 33 of 105 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Intercom at 21% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, PubNub held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · In-app messaging · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 28 → 31 of 96
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 18 → 19 of 97
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In-app messaging | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 28 → 33 of 105 |
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 PubNub 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 PubNub 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained4 labels1
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.
“PubNub is a data stream network that powers real-time apps. Cost: Forever Free” GLM 4.7 FlashX · In-app messaging · budget prompt · alternative
“Ultra-low latency messaging backbone; you build the chat UI yourself” Kimi K2 · In-app messaging · 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 PubNub, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PubNub was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as PubNub, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PubNub 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 PubNub. 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 9 of the 11 answers that named PubNub and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cometchat.com8
guideflow.com7
bizbot.com6
pushwoosh.com5
ethora.com4
getstream.io4
knock.app4
userpilot.com4
dupple.com3
pubnub.comYour site3
Forty-five of the forty-eight domain citations in answers naming PubNub came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on pubnub.com
3,892
subdomains included
Content
1,368
counted in the table below
Documentation
2,040
Product · Integration
37 · 102
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 948 | undated | Mobile apps, Ecommerce | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 218 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 86 | undated | |||
| Case study | 58 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 29 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 17 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 9 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page pubnub.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow PubNub
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.
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The company
PubNub.ShowHide
The company
PubNub.
ShowHideOn record
Wikidata- Website
- pubnub.com
- Founded
- 2010
Fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata · Crunchbase
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The complete real-time developer platform
- For
- real-time, interactive applications
- Price stated
- PubNub’s pricing is based on monthly active users (MAUs), so cost scales with the audience your application actually serves. pubnub.com
- Starting price
- 0 pubnub.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Try for free pubnub.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2SOC 3HIPAAGDPRCCPAISO 27001EU–U.S. Data Privacy FrameworkA2A
- Hosting
- EU-onlyUS-onlyAPAC-onlyU.S.-only data centersNorth AmericaAsiaEuropeSouth America
- Customers named
- DAZNGameloftSwiggyManaDr17LIVEAyoaBeamableBusWhere
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations
What PubNub's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: pubnub.com, pubnub.com/pricing, pubnub.com/trust, pubnub.com/solutions/chat, pubnub.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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 PubNub'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 PubNub, 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 PubNub by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where PubNub 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 PubNub, 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.