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Index Vendors › Tencent RTC · September 2026 Edition
1 category · Named, not ranked

Tencent RTC

5Judge labels
1First choices
0Negative labels
5 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
4 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Tencent RTC was named 4 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.
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 Tencent RTC 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
In-app messaging and customer communicationsCustomer2%13 of 1130%4under 10 labels · led by Intercom at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Tencent RTC 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 Tencent RTC across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick10001
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.501001

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
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained4 labels1
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“The best in-app messaging platform for a company with a limited budget is Tencent RTC, as it offers a generous free tier with 100 MAU forever” Llama 4 Maverick · In-app messaging · budget prompt · first choice
“Tencent RTC (Top Pick): Currently offers one of the best "forever free" tiers” Qwen 3.7 Flash · In-app messaging · budget prompt · alternative
“Developer-Friendly: Tencent RTC ... Free tier: 100 MAU forever” Mistral Small · In-app messaging · budget prompt · alternative
“Free (100 MAU) | Enterprise features at no cost” MiniMax M2.5 · In-app messaging · budget 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 Tencent RTC, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Tencent RTC was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
OneSignal4 of 51Not in the top three
Pushwoosh3 of 52Not in the top three
Braze2 of 50Not in the top three
UserGuiding2 of 50Not in the top three
CometChat1 of 51Not in the top three
Crisp1 of 51Not in the top three
Airship1 of 50Not in the top three
Appcues1 of 50Not in the top three
Customer.io1 of 50Not in the top three
Ethora1 of 50Not 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.
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