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MSCI

8Judge labels
0First choices
5Negative labels
6 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
5 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. MSCI was named 5 times in ESG and carbon reporting, where Greenly led with 36%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In esg and carbon reporting · 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 MSCI 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 rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
ESG and carbon reportingEquity and corporate0%110 of 11060%5under 10 labels · led by Greenly at 36%=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, MSCI held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 10 points.

Best category · ESG and carbon reporting · by segment

Mid-market=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 71 → 93 of 96
EnterprisenewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 61 of 75, unchanged

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
ESG and carbon reporting0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 10-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 71 → 110 of 110

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 MSCI across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500011
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200011
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00112

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
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative8 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“MSCI's 40/30/30 weighting (Environmental/Social/Governance) can overemphasize environmental factors, potentially masking social and governance risks” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ESG and carbon reporting · negative prompt · soft negative
“That divergence is a long-standing criticism of providers such as Morningstar Sustainalytics and MSCI.” Muse Glimmer 30B · ESG and carbon reporting · negative prompt · soft negative
“Criticized for "superficial research," "inconsistent analysis," and methodology lacking transparency.” Kimi K2 · ESG and carbon reporting · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as MSCI, over the 8 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MSCI was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
SAP Sustainability Control Tower3 of 80Not among the top eight
Sustainalytics3 of 80Not among the top eight
Workiva3 of 80Not among the top eight
Bloomberg2 of 80Not among the top eight
EcoVadis2 of 80Not among the top eight
IBM Envizi2 of 80Not among the top eight
Morningstar Sustainalytics2 of 80Not among the top eight
Watershed2 of 80Not among the top eight
Bloomberg ESG1 of 80Not among the top eight
Clarity AI1 of 80Not among the top eight
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 MSCI. 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 8 of the 8 answers that named MSCI and are not a share of its labels.

What it publishes

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Addresses on msci.com
9,353
subdomains included
Content
2,162
counted in the table below
Documentation
1
Product · Integration
7 · 0
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog1,157undated
Podcast or video511undated
Conference or event399undated
Comparison31undated
Webinar or virtual event23undated
Report or ebook1802022-12-08
Glossary or explainer10undated
News or press7undated
Case study6undated

Most recent

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Every page msci.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 MSCI

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.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

MSCI is its own company.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Bringing clarity to investment decisions
For
corporate finance and sustainability leaders
Hosting
Global
Not stated on the pages read
Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, customers

What MSCI's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: msci.com, msci.com/research-and-insights/contributor/pricing-rm, msci.com/solutions/corporate-solutions. 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 MSCI'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 MSCI, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for MSCI by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where MSCI 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 MSCI, 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.

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at msci.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.