Application performance monitoring for enterprise buyers
Asked as “APM tool”, and as “application performance monitoring solution”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 60 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
55%
Clear leader
55Dynatrace15Datadog APM10CubeAPM20others
55% of first choices, clear leader.
Since October 2026▲+8Since October 2026: 47% → 55%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Dynatrace held the lead, +8 points on 47%, inside the 11-point floor.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small business
New Relic60%Clear leader▲+7Since October 2026: 53% → 60%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →Mid-marketNew Relic61%Clear leader▲+15Since October 2026: 46% → 61%, +15 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.Standing →Enterprise
Dynatrace55%Clear leader▲+8Since October 2026: 47% → 55%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This page
New Relic60%Clear leader▲+7Since October 2026: 53% → 60%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →Mid-marketNew Relic61%Clear leader▲+15Since October 2026: 46% → 61%, +15 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.Standing →EnterpriseDynatrace55%Clear leader▲+8Since October 2026: 47% → 55%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This pageThe standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01Dynatrace55%17%70endorsed leader▲+8Since October 2026: 47% → 55%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.47% → 55%
Dynatrace55%17%70endorsed leader▲+8Since October 2026: 47% → 55%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.47% → 55%02
Datadog APM15%29%75criticized challenger▼−1Since October 2026: 16% → 15%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.16% → 15%
Datadog APM15%29%75criticized challenger▼−1Since October 2026: 16% → 15%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.16% → 15%03New Relic8%24%66accepted challenger▼−3Since October 2026: 11% → 8%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.11% → 8%
New Relic8%24%66accepted challenger▼−3Since October 2026: 11% → 8%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.11% → 8%04
AppDynamics5%21%43accepted challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 9% → 5%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.9% → 5%
AppDynamics5%21%43accepted challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 9% → 5%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.9% → 5%05
Splunk Observability Cloud2%15%13accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%
Splunk Observability Cloud2%15%13accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%06
Elastic APM2%25%12criticized challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%
Elastic APM2%25%12criticized challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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SigNoz0%30%10criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
SigNoz0%30%10criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%09
Grafana Cloud0%18%11accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Grafana Cloud0%18%11accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%08
Elastic Observability0%10%10accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Elastic Observability0%10%10accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%07
IBM Instana0%6%16accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
IBM Instana0%6%16accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%The floor is 11 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 can't be told apart from repeat variation, and both are shown. Each index measures its own floor from its own repeat, over its own categories, so the floor differs from one index to the next. Both editions asked the same fourteen models. How the floor is measured
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Head to headHead-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not enterprise.
All twenty-one head-to-head pages: the top seven products, each against each
New Relic vs DynatraceNew Relic vs SigNozNew Relic vs Site24x7Datadog APM vs Grafana CloudDatadog APM vs ManageEngine Applications ManagerDatadog APM vs DynatraceDatadog APM vs SigNozDatadog APM vs Site24x7Grafana Cloud vs ManageEngine Applications ManagerGrafana Cloud vs DynatraceGrafana Cloud vs SigNozGrafana Cloud vs Site24x7ManageEngine Applications Manager vs DynatraceManageEngine Applications Manager vs SigNozManageEngine Applications Manager vs Site24x7Dynatrace vs SigNozDynatrace vs Site24x7SigNoz vs Site24x7
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
01020304050607080910Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative70%
Key
01Dynatrace55%
Dynatrace55%02Datadog APM15%
Datadog APM15%03New Relic8%
New Relic8%04AppDynamics5%
AppDynamics5%05Splunk Observability Cloud2%
Splunk Observability Cloud2%06Elastic APM2%
Elastic APM2%07IBM Instana0%
IBM Instana0%08Elastic Observability0%
Elastic Observability0%09Grafana Cloud0%
Grafana Cloud0%10SigNoz0%
SigNoz0%What they warned about
Eight of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-6 Luna and Muse Glimmer 30B changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Datadog APM29%
22 of 75 labels negative · 14 of 14 models · 5 hard negative
“Avoid as the default for thousands of users: Datadog, because its per-host pricing and usage add-ons can make growth harder to forecast.” Perplexity Sonar, budget prompt
New Relic24%
16 of 66 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“What to avoid for predictable cost: ... New Relic ... per-seat costs become massive and data ingest fees are inherently unpredictable.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
Dynatrace17%
12 of 70 labels negative · 9 of 14 models
“Dynatrace's subscription accrues consumption against a contractual commitment. Both can work well, but unmanaged growth can make spend harder to predict.” GPT-6 Luna, negative prompt
AppDynamics21%
9 of 43 labels negative · 7 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“AppDynamics (post-acquisition concerns)” Kimi K2, negative prompt
What they cite
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted.
Sites the answers cite
74 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 814 links across 206 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 16 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.
vendor site · New Relic52 answers · 96 citations · 14 models
vendor site · ManageEngine26 answers · 36 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Atatus24 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
vendor site · G222 answers · 38 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Dynatrace21 answers · 23 citations · 8 models
vendor site · Coralogix20 answers · 20 citations · 10 models
vendor site · CubeAPM14 answers · 17 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Middleware.io14 answers · 14 citations · 8 models
publisher (Gane)13 answers · 14 citations · 6 models
13 answers · 14 citations · 4 models
vendor site · Netdata12 answers · 13 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Instatus11 answers · 11 citations · 6 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
39 answers · 12 models
23 answers · 10 models
22 answers · 9 models
18 answers · 10 models
13 answers · 7 models
12 answers · 7 models
11 answers · 8 models
11 answers · 6 models
11 answers · 7 models
10 answers · 5 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “apm tool”, “apm tools”, “best apm tool”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dynatrace dynatrace.com | 55% | 676 | 22,200 | 1,106 | 62,738 | $3,941 | 120 | 2 |
| Datadog datadoghq.com Datadog APM 15% | 15% | 185 | 74,000 | 3,541 | 159,408 company | $633 | 120 | |
| CubeAPM cubeapm.com | 10% | 42 | 40 | 0 | 846 | |||
| New Relic newrelic.com | 8% | 595 | 14,800 | 843 | 83,276 | $412 | 89 | 4 |
| AppDynamics splunk.com | 5% | 116 | 2,900 | 211 | 892,906 | 120 | ||
| Splunk parent site Splunk Observability Cloud 2% | 2% | 173 | 40,500 | 6,832 | ||||
| Elastic elastic.co Elastic APM 2%, Elastic Observability 0% | 2% | 142 | 74,000 | 34,672 | 208,306 company | 105 | ||
| OpManager Nexus | 2% | |||||||
| ManageEngine parent site ManageEngine Applications Manager 2%, ManageEngine OpManager Nexus 0% | 2% | 33 | 8,100 | 675 | ||||
| IBM parent site IBM Instana 0% | 0% | 108 | 201,000 | 34,098 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 15 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (dynatrace.com, manageengine.com, newrelic.com). The first result for “apm tool” is blazemeter.com.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best APM tool for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which application performance monitoring solution would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade APM tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best APM tool for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a APM tool. What should we look at?”Negative“Which APM tools should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5Datadog APM, DynatraceDatadog APMChangedDatadog APM, DynatraceCubeAPM, Dynatraceagainst: New Relicno first choiceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Elastic APM, New Relic, SigNoz
Two alternatives
AppDynamics, New RelicTwo alternatives
AppDynamics, DynatraceFive alternatives
AppDynamics, Elastic APM, ManageEngine OpManager Nexus, New Relic, Splunk Observability CloudGPT-5.4 miniDynatraceDynatraceHeldDatadog APM, DynatraceDynatraceagainst: Datadog APMno first choiceagainst: Datadog APM
Two alternatives
Datadog APM, New RelicTwo alternatives
Datadog APM, New RelicThree alternatives
AppDynamics, Elastic APM, New RelicOne alternative
New RelicGemini 3.5 FlashDynatraceDynatraceHeldDatadog APM, DynatraceAppDynamics, Elastic APMagainst: Datadog APM, New Relicno first choiceagainst: AppSignal, Broadcom DX APM, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, Honeybadger, Jaeger, New Relic, OpenText, Prometheus + Grafana, Raygun, Scout APM, Zipkin, legacy IBM Tivoli/APM suites
Five alternatives
AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Grafana Enterprise Stack, Honeycomb, New RelicFour alternatives
AppDynamics, Datadog APM, New Relic, SplunkThree alternatives
AppDynamics, New Relic, Splunk Observability CloudTwo alternatives
Dynatrace, Grafana Enterprise StackPerplexity SonarDynatraceDynatraceHeldDynatraceCubeAPM, New Relicagainst: Datadog APM, Dynatraceno first choiceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, Elastic APM, Honeycomb, Sentry
Five alternatives
Amazon CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Elastic APM, SigNozFour alternatives
AppDynamics, Datadog APM, ManageEngine OpManager Nexus, New RelicSeven alternatives
AWS X-Ray, Amazon CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Elastic APM, New Relic, Splunk Observability CloudGrok 4.20Dynatraceagainst: AppDynamics, Atatus, BMC, Coralogix, Elastic Observability, Splunk Observability CloudDynatraceHeldDynatraceagainst: Grafana Cloud, SigNozAppDynamicsagainst: Datadog APM, New Relic, Prometheus + Grafana, SigNoz, SplunkDatadog APM, Dynatrace, New Relicagainst: Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, Broadcom, Broadcom DX APM, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, Google Operations, Jaeger, New Relic, Prometheus, Splunk
Two alternatives
Datadog APM, New RelicTwo alternatives
Datadog APM, New RelicFive alternatives
Datadog APM, Elastic Observability, IBM Instana, New Relic, SplunkOne alternative
DynatraceOne alternative
AppDynamicsMistral SmallDynatraceDynatrace, New RelicChangedDynatraceCubeAPM, OpManager Nexusagainst: Dynatrace, New Relicno first choiceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace
One alternative
New RelicTwo alternatives
AppDynamics, Datadog APMFive alternatives
AppDynamics, Datadog APM, IBM Instana, Microsoft Azure Monitor, New RelicDeepSeek V4 FlashDatadog APM, DynatraceDynatraceChangedDynatraceDynatraceagainst: Datadog APM, New RelicDatadog APM, Dynatrace, New Relicagainst: AppDynamics, Broadcom DX APM, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, New Relic, SolarWinds AppOptics
Two alternatives
AppDynamics, New RelicTwo alternatives
Datadog APM, New RelicFour alternatives
AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud, New RelicOne alternative
ManageEngine OpManager NexusThree alternatives
Coralogix, Elastic Observability, Grafana CloudLlama 4 MaverickDynatraceDynatraceHeldDynatraceCubeAPMno first choiceagainst: Datadog APM, Dynatrace
Three alternatives
Azure Monitor, Datadog APM, New RelicTwo alternatives
Datadog APM, New RelicTwo alternatives
AppDynamics, New RelicFive alternatives
Datadog APM, Dynatrace, Middleware.io, New Relic, SigNozQwen 3.7 FlashDynatraceDynatraceHeldDynatraceagainst: SplunkManageEngine Applications Manageragainst: Datadog APM, New Relicno first choiceagainst: Broadcom Layer7 API Gateway, Coralogix, Datadog APM, Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana, IBM APM, Lightstep, New Relic, Pingdom, Prometheus, StatusCake, Uptrends
Four alternatives
AppDynamics, Datadog APM, New Relic, Splunk Observability CloudTwo alternatives
Datadog APM, IBM InstanaThree alternatives
AppDynamics, Datadog APM, New RelicTwo alternatives
Dynatrace, Self-Hosted Elastic APMKimi K2DynatraceDynatraceHeldDynatraceNew Relicagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APMDatadog APM, Dynatraceagainst: AppDynamicsagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, New Relic
One alternative
Datadog APMTwo alternatives
AppDynamics, Datadog APMFour alternatives
AppDynamics, Datadog APM, IBM Instana, New RelicThree alternatives
Dynatrace, ManageEngine Applications Manager, OpManager NexusThree alternatives
Elastic APM, Grafana Cloud, New RelicGLM 4.7 FlashXDynatraceDynatraceHeldDatadog APMDynatraceagainst: IBM Instana, New Relicno first choiceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, ManageEngine Applications Manager, New Relic, Stackify
Two alternatives
Datadog APM, New RelicThree alternatives
Datadog APM, IBM Instana, New RelicFour alternatives
Dynatrace, IBM Instana, New Relic, SplunkFive alternatives
Coralogix, Datadog APM, Elastic Observability, Middleware.io, SigNozMiniMax M2.5AppDynamics, DynatraceDynatraceChangedDynatraceCubeAPMagainst: Datadog APM, New RelicDatadog APM, Dynatraceagainst: Elastic APM, New Relic, Splunk Observability Cloudagainst: Alibaba Cloud APM
Two alternatives
Datadog APM, New RelicFive alternatives
AppDynamics, Datadog APM, IBM Instana, New Relic, Splunk Observability CloudThree alternatives
AppDynamics, Datadog APM, New RelicTwo alternatives
KloudMate, ManageEngine Applications ManagerGPT-6 LunaDatadog APMDynatraceChangedno first choiceSplunk Observability Cloudno first choiceagainst: CloudWatch, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, Grafana Cloud, Jaeger, Prometheus
Two alternatives
Dynatrace, New RelicOne alternative
Datadog APMOne alternative
New RelicMuse Glimmer 30BDatadog APMDynatraceChangedDynatraceCubeAPMagainst: Datadog APM, Dynatraceno first choiceagainst: Datadog APM, Dynatrace
Two alternatives
Dynatrace, New RelicTwo alternatives
Datadog APM, New RelicSix alternatives
Datadog APM, Elastic Observability, Grafana Cloud, IBM Instana, New Relic, Splunk Observability CloudThree alternatives
KloudMate, New Relic, Scout APMBold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 17:15 | yes | 18 | 10 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 18:20 | yes | 4 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 16:45 | no | 0 | 17 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 14:26 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:54 | yes | 5 | 13 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 14:05 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 15:23 | yes | 18 | 24 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 13:14 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 17:34 | yes | 5 | 20 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 10:55 | yes | 10 | 42 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 10:11 | yes | 13 | 46 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 19:37 | yes | 5 | 45 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 14:06 | yes | 3 | 15 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 16:30 | yes | 12 | 23 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 12:41 | yes | 17 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 13:43 | yes | 4 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 12:04 | yes | 5 | 19 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 13:43 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 17:22 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 08:38 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 16:30 | yes | 14 | 29 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:54 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 11:38 | yes | 5 | 25 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 08:40 | yes | 15 | 23 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 17:59 | yes | 19 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 15:54 | no | 0 | 53 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 11:21 | yes | 3 | 11 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 09:36 | yes | 15 | 21 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 13:53 | yes | 10 | 11 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 10:15 | yes | 6 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 11:29 | yes | 9 | 22 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 14:53 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 17:53 | yes | 5 | 12 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 19:44 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 19:29 | yes | 23 | 60 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 17:42 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 13:41 | no | 0 | 31 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 18:57 | yes | 20 | 32 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 17:43 | yes | 25 | 50 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 16:24 | yes | 9 | 26 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 14:11 | yes | 8 | 24 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 17:14 | yes | 13 | 29 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 09:32 | yes | 15 | 9 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 13:08 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 15:37 | no | 0 | 21 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 17:48 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:39 | yes | 10 | 13 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:41 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 09:38 | yes | 21 | 20 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 13:19 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 15:24 | yes | 9 | 52 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 11:39 | yes | 24 | 40 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 12:45 | yes | 17 | 191 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 16:46 | yes | 10 | 43 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 10:24 | yes | 3 | 14 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 09:00 | yes | 15 | 25 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 15:28 | yes | 18 | 11 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 14:12 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 09:54 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 10:54 | yes | 10 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 18:32 | yes | 13 | 20 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 15:04 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 14:47 | yes | 24 | 53 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:11 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 08:53 | no | 0 | 30 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 14:24 | yes | 14 | 28 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 09:23 | yes | 22 | 29 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 13:53 | no | 0 | 19 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 09:24 | yes | 4 | 22 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 18:04 | yes | 15 | 28 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 12:35 | yes | 15 | 10 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 14:51 | yes | 4 | 6 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 09:08 | no | 0 | 18 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 16:14 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 17:52 | yes | 9 | 12 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 08:47 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 13:58 | yes | 23 | 44 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 13:29 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 19:44 | no | 0 | 35 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 11:05 | yes | 25 | 64 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 17:05 | yes | 24 | 48 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:08 | yes | 5 | 71 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 11:47 | yes | 4 | 17 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 19:16 | yes | 25 | 30 s |
Normalization in this category
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Cisco AppDynamics read as AppDynamics
Cisco AppDynamics (Splunk) read as AppDynamics
Datadog read as Datadog APM
Elastic read as Elastic APM
Elastic Cloud read as Elastic APM
Grafana read as Grafana Cloud
Grafana (LGTM stack) read as Grafana Cloud
ManageEngine read as ManageEngine Applications Manager
Splunk APM read as Splunk Observability Cloud
Splunk APM (formerly SignalFx) read as Splunk Observability Cloud
Unresolved, counted raw
Alibaba Cloud APM
Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK)
Google Operations
IBM APM (formerly PureApplication)
Self-Hosted Elastic APM
Stackify
legacy IBM Tivoli/APM suites
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.