Gartner Markets Search API — Find Software Categories
Send a keyword and this source searches Gartner Peer Insights markets — software categories, not products or vendors — and returns matches with the market alias you need for a Gartner market or Gartner market products lookup.
{
"session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
"kind": "gartner_market_search",
"query": "data loss prevention",
"max_items": 2,
"partial": false,
"human": "# Gartner Peer Insights market search\n\n- **Search term:** data loss prevention\n- **Max items:** 2\n- **Records returned:** 1\n- **Proxy traffic:** 12.0 KB",
"machine": {
"total_items": 1,
"items": [
{
"id": "caa14cb1-c6f6-4ffc-a05d-3160564d2cc6",
"ref_id": "412",
"name": "Data Loss Prevention",
"alias": "data-loss-prevention",
"review_count": 3898,
"has_profile": true,
"description": "Gartner defines data loss prevention (DLP) as a technical control designed to prevent data loss in order to comply with personal data regulations, prevent unintended disclosure, minimize insider risk and ensure that sensitive data is not overly accessible. DLP controls are typically applied to reduce the data risk for two states of unstructured data: data at rest and data in motion. Depending on t",
"url": "https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/data-loss-prevention",
"position": 1
}
],
"proxy_traffic_bytes": 12262
},
"total_points": 1
}- You send
- A search keyword, with an optional max_items cap
- You get back
- Matching markets (software categories) with their aliases
- Coverage
- Markets (software categories) with a public Gartner Peer Insights profile.
- Price
- 1 point per returned result, up to 250 per request — $1 per 1,000
- Billed per record actually returned, capped by max_items. A search that matches nothing costs nothing.
Ways to get this data
Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.
| Approach | What it takes | Cost | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Browsing Gartner Peer Insights categories by hand | Use the site's own category navigation or search box and copy the alias from the URL | Free, and slow | Fine for one market, tedious across several |
| Pulling the full taxonomy and filtering it yourself | Call Gartner categories and search the result client-side | Flat 5 points, plus your own filtering logic | Works, but is more than you need for a single keyword lookup |
| NeuralVerge | One request per keyword | $1 per 1,000, misses not billed | Returns what Gartner indexes under that keyword as a market, not a product |
What you get back
Every field in the response shown above.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
total_items | number | How many markets matched the keyword. |
id | string | Gartner's internal market ID. |
ref_id | string | Gartner's market reference ID. |
name | string | Market name. |
alias | string | Market alias, for feeding into Gartner market or Gartner market products. |
review_count | number | Total number of reviews across products in this market. |
has_profile | boolean | Whether the market has a full Peer Insights profile page. |
description | string | Market description as Gartner publishes it. |
url | string | Direct link to the market's Peer Insights page. |
position | number | Rank position within the search results. |
How to run it
The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.
query is required; max_items is optional, 1-250, defaulting to 25.
curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-gartner-markets-search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "query": "data loss prevention", "max_items": 25 }'What teams use it for
Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.
Turn a category name you already know into the alias Gartner market or Gartner market products needs.
Search a broad keyword to see every related market Gartner tracks separately.
Find the exact market before running a peer-segmented ranking against it.
See multiple close matches side by side rather than guessing which market alias is right.
Coverage, freshness and limits
What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.
Markets (software categories) with a public Gartner Peer Insights profile.
Searched at request time.
This source returns publicly visible market information, stamped with the query it was read from and a session id you can trace.
- —It returns what the search index matches, not a guarantee the top result is the category you meant.
- —Adjacent or overlapping categories can both match a broad keyword, so a tight keyword resolves faster than a broad one.
- —It searches markets only — for products, use Gartner products search instead.
Questions, answered
No. This finds markets — software categories. Gartner products search finds individual products. Keep the two separate: one returns a category alias, the other returns a product alias.
Related sources
Try gartner markets search on your own data
One request format across every source in the catalog.