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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Google Looker Studio

4Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

4 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Google Looker Studio was named 2 times in Board and 1 other category, where OnBoard led with 25%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business35 of 97

under the label threshold

Mid-market70 of 97

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In board · 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 Google Looker Studio 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
Board and investor reporting	Planning and analysis	0%	70 of 97	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by OnBoard at 25%
Corporate performance management	Planning and analysis	0%	59 of 95	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Planful at 29%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative1 label1not counted in share

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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 Google Looker Studio, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Looker Studio was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Power BI3 of 40Not in the top three

Tableau3 of 40Not in the top three

Microsoft Excel2 of 40Not in the top three

Cube1 of 41Not in the top three

Fathom1 of 41Not in the top three

LivePlan1 of 41Not in the top three

15Five1 of 40Not in the top three

Anaplan1 of 40Not in the top three

Asana1 of 40Not in the top three

Azure DevOps1 of 40Not 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 Google Looker Studio. 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 3 of the 4 answers that named Google Looker Studio and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dashboardfox.com2

zipdo.co2

1clickreport.com1

appdeck.com1

assembly.com1

barchart.com1

biclaw.app1

business-software.com1

businessmodelanalyst.com1

capterra.com1

Twelve of the twelve domain citations in answers naming Google Looker Studio came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

1clickreport.com/blog/dashboard-reporting-tools-2026-comparison1

appdeck.com/blog/board-reporting-software-comparison1

assembly.com/blog/best-dashboard-software-for-small-business1

barchart.com/story/news/3006151/best1

biclaw.app/blog/business-intelligence-tools-smb1

business-software.com/blog/the-best-free-erp-systems1

businessmodelanalyst.com/business-model-canvas-maker1

capterra.com/board-management-software1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Google Looker Studio

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

Data Studio 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 Google Looker Studio'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 Google Looker Studio, 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 google.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.