# Posit

Posit sells open-source data science tools for R and Python as an enterprise platform. Positron is a free code editor for data analysis, and Posit Workbench provides hosted development environments in Positron, RStudio, VS Code and Jupyter. Posit Connect publishes apps, dashboards, APIs and reports, and Posit Package Manager governs R and Python package repositories. IT teams can run these products on their own infrastructure and set access, security and package policies centrally.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/posit · data of 2026-11-02

## Facts

- Founded: 2009
- Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Employees: 201–500
- Company type: Private, public benefit corporation
- Latest funding: Series D
- Deployment: Self-managed on the customer's own servers, Kubernetes or cloud environments, and natively within Snowflake, AWS and Databricks
- Best for: Enterprise data science teams that build in R and Python and need IT governance over data, compute and packages

## Products

- Positron: Free code editor for data science and analysis with Python and R, including notebooks and an AI assistant.
- Posit Workbench: Centrally managed, governed server environment for Positron, RStudio, VS Code and Jupyter.
- Posit Connect: Publishing platform for Python and R apps, dashboards, APIs, reports and notebooks.
- Posit Package Manager: Curated, governed repositories for R and Python packages with vulnerability reporting and blocking rules.
- Posit AI: AI assistant embedded in Positron and RStudio that works with the user's live R or Python session.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| MLOps Platforms | 41 of 61 | 0.7 | 2 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 2.2 | 7.4% |
| google_ai_mode | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| perplexity | 0.0 | 0.0% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Posit AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/posit, data of 2026-11-02. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).