Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 74 → 79 of 80
2 categories · RankedLooker
98Judge labels
4First choices
28Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
6% in SaaS metrics for enterprise buyers
Rank 14 of 78 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 45% of its 11 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Looker →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business84 of 85
0%9 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market14 of 78
2%11 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise4 of 109
6%27 labels
accepted challenger
In saas metrics · 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 Looker 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SaaS metrics and analytics | Planning and analysis | 2% | 14 of 78 | 45% | 11 | criticized challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Financial reporting and dashboards | Planning and analysis | 0% | 19 of 105 | 6% | 17 | accepted challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Looker held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 10 points.
Best category · SaaS metrics · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 15 → 13 of 75
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 7 → 5 of 99
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SaaS metrics | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 15 → 14 of 78 |
| Financial reporting | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 20 → 19 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 10 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 Looker 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 Looker 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 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
Direct15 labels3
Paraphrase9 labels1
Comparative31 labelsNone
Budget-constrained3 labelsNone
Scale-constrained8 labelsNone
Negative32 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative98 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 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.
“If you want one default recommendation, I'd usually pick Looker for a mid-market B2B company” GPT-5.4 mini · SaaS metrics · direct prompt · first choice
“Looker works well for Google Cloud organizations that want code-first governance through LookML.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Financial reporting · comparative prompt · alternative
“Governance & semantic consistency: Looker for metric definition in code across an organization.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Financial reporting · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose Looker if your biggest challenge is conflicting data definitions across departments” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Financial reporting · 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.
“too heavy and expensive for early-stage SaaS companies” Mistral Small · SaaS metrics · negative prompt · hard negative
“you might not yet have the massive data engineering resources required to build custom BI dashboards (like Looker or Tableau)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SaaS metrics · direct prompt · soft negative
“Modern BI Tools (e.g., Looker, PowerBI, Tableau): Better if you have a dedicated data team... requires technical resources.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SaaS metrics · scale prompt · soft negative
“Struggles with customer-facing analytics and has premium pricing that can be prohibitive” Claude Haiku 4.5 · SaaS metrics · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Looker, over the 98 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Looker was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Looker, over the 98 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Looker 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 Looker. 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 88 of the 98 answers that named Looker and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
baremetrics.com28
databox.com26
finance-ai-index.com21
designrevision.com19
kanerika.com14
domo.com13
linkedin.com13
worldmetrics.org13
medium.com12
qlik.com12
171 of the 171 domain citations in answers naming Looker came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
cloud.google.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Looker takes 2% of first choices and ChartMogul takes 49%.ShowHide
Search and answers
cloud.google.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Looker takes 2% of first choices and ChartMogul takes 49%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “saas metrics tools”
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not in the top ten
Position for “saas metrics dashboard”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 18,100 a month (“looker”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 2,051 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 7,405,347 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 70,320 · 16,032 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 201,334
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 14 of 78 in saas metrics
Segment leader
49%
ChartMogul
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 98 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 88 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on cloud.google.com
79
subdomains included
Content
67
counted in the table below
Documentation
6
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 37 | 14 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Case study | 19 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 4 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 2 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
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- 2026-09-252026 gartner magic quadrant for container management blog
- 2026-09-24Gemini 3 8 live with live avatar is now generally available blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cloud.google.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.
Names read as Looker
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Looker; a claim can dispute any of them.
Looker (Google Cloud) 3Google Looker 1Google Looker & Looker Studio 1Google Looker/Looker Studio 1Looker (Google Cloud Platform) 1Looker (by Google Cloud) 1Looker / Looker Studio 1
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The company
Looker is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Looker is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Platform for BI, data applications, and embedded analytics.
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Looker's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: cloud.google.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Looker'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 Looker, 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 Looker by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Looker 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 Looker, 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.