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Index › Vendors › Stream · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Stream

26Judge labels

2First choices

2Negative labels

6 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

9 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Stream was named 9 times in In-app messaging, where Intercom led with 20%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business15 of 112

under the label threshold

Mid-market23 of 113

under the label threshold

Enterprise13 of 96

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 Stream 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
In-app messaging and customer communications	Customer	0%	23 of 113	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by Intercom at 20%

Movement

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

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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative9 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained4 labels1

Scale-constrained6 labels1

Negative3 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 6 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.

“Stream and Tencent RTC Chat consistently rank highest for developer experience, feature completeness, and security posture” DeepSeek V4 Flash · In-app messaging · negative prompt · first choice

“Known as the developer favorite... Choose Stream if you want to launch quickly with polished, modern UI elements.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · In-app messaging · comparative prompt · first choice

“Look into competitors like Stream, CometChat, or open-source self-hosted alternatives like Matrix.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · In-app messaging · negative prompt · alternative

“Pick Stream/TalkJS/CometChat for fast, pre-built UIs” DeepSeek V4 Flash · 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 Stream, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Stream was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CometChat23 of 262Not in the top three

Sendbird22 of 261Not in the top three

Appcues18 of 261Not in the top three

Intercom17 of 262Not in the top three

Userpilot16 of 262Not in the top three

PubNub13 of 261Not in the top three

Braze12 of 261Not in the top three

OneSignal11 of 262Not in the top three

Twilio Conversations11 of 260Not in the top three

Chameleon8 of 261Not 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.

Names read as Stream

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

Stream (GetStream) 3Stream (formerly GetStream) 1

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

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at streamcreative.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.