Zabbix vs Nagios
One of fourteen models named Zabbix first on the direct prompt; zero named Nagios. Zabbix was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Nagios by thirteen and Zabbix carries 49 labels and Nagios 37, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in eight categories this edition.
Named in five categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the network monitoring and management page.
By framing
ZabbixFirst choices, of fourteen modelsNagios
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Zabbix and Nagios were named in the same answer 142 times, of the 358 answers naming Zabbix and the 161 naming Nagios. In those answers Nagios took the first choice one time and Zabbix twenty-four.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | |||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | |||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | |||
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | | ||
| Grok 4.20 | | | | | ||
| Mistral Small | | |||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | |||
| Llama 4 Maverick | | | | |||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | | |
| Kimi K2 | | | ||||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | | | ||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | | | | |
| GPT-6 Luna | | | ||||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | |
Zabbix Nagios first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Zabbix on the left and Nagios on the right.The direct prompt
Zabbix first, Nagios not the choice
1 of 14 modelsNagios was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
2 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
11 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Zabbix2%#9 of 15Nagios2%#11 of 15What the models said about Zabbix
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“Free/Open Source. Extremely powerful and customizable, but requires significant Linux/sysadmin expertise to maintain and tune. Only choose this if you have strong engineering talent.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · scale prompt · soft negative
“The best network monitoring tool for a company with a limited budget is Zabbix, as it is open-source and free to self-host” Llama 4 Maverick · budget prompt · first choice
What the models said about Nagios
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“I'd suggest starting with Zabbix or Nagios Core since they're completely free and enterprise-grade” MiniMax M2.5 · budget prompt · first choice
“Stick to well-established, actively maintained tools like SolarWinds NPM, PRTG, Nagios, or Zeek” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · alternative
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.