Application performance monitoring for small business buyers
Asked as “APM tool”, and as “application performance monitoring solution”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 53 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each.
Standing · first-choice share
60%
Clear leader
60New Relic11Sentry06Atatus23others
60% of first choices, clear leader.
Since October 2026▲+7Since October 2026: 53% → 60%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.New Relic held the lead, +7 points on 53%, 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.This pageMid-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.Standing →
New Relic60%Clear leader▲+7Since October 2026: 53% → 60%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.This pageMid-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.Standing →The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01New Relic60%18%72endorsed leader▲+7Since October 2026: 53% → 60%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.53% → 60%
New Relic60%18%72endorsed leader▲+7Since October 2026: 53% → 60%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.53% → 60%02
Sentry11%2%40accepted challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 15% → 11%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.15% → 11%
Sentry11%2%40accepted challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 15% → 11%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.15% → 11%03
Atatus6%0%15accepted challenger▲+3Since October 2026: 3% → 6%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.3% → 6%
Atatus6%0%15accepted challenger▲+3Since October 2026: 3% → 6%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.3% → 6%04
Datadog APM6%64%64criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 6% → 6%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.6% → 6%
Datadog APM6%64%64criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 6% → 6%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.6% → 6%05
Scout APM4%0%25accepted challenger▲+4Since October 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 4%
Scout APM4%0%25accepted challenger▲+4Since October 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 4%06
SigNoz4%4%25accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 6% → 4%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.6% → 4%
SigNoz4%4%25accepted challenger▼−2Since October 2026: 6% → 4%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.6% → 4%07
Grafana Cloud2%13%30accepted challenger▼−1Since October 2026: 3% → 2%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.3% → 2%
Grafana Cloud2%13%30accepted challenger▼−1Since October 2026: 3% → 2%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.3% → 2%08
Site24x72%0%12accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%
Site24x72%0%12accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 2%Show the six products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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AppDynamics0%86%21criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
AppDynamics0%86%21criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%14Dynatrace0%82%38criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Dynatrace0%82%38criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%12
IBM Instana0%40%10criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
IBM Instana0%40%10criticized challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%11
Elastic APM0%15%13accepted challenger▼−5Since October 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.5% → 0%
Elastic APM0%15%13accepted challenger▼−5Since October 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.5% → 0%09
AppSignal0%0%16accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
AppSignal0%0%16accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%10
Honeycomb0%0%11accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
Honeycomb0%0%11accepted 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 small business.
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
One product takes 60% of first choices here, so the chart would put thirteen markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. Four products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category.
What they warned about
Three of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Grok 4.20, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX, MiniMax M2.5 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.
Dynatrace82%
31 of 38 labels negative · 14 of 14 models · 13 hard negative
“Enterprise-focused APM tools that require dedicated administrators or have steep learning curves, such as Dynatrace and ServiceNow APM” Mistral Small, negative prompt
AppDynamics86%
18 of 21 labels negative · 14 of 14 models · 10 hard negative
“expensive for small companies on a budget; deployment is more complex than many small teams need” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
Datadog APM64%
41 of 64 labels negative · 13 of 14 models · 9 hard negative
“Avoid Datadog initially unless its unified infrastructure, logs, and security features justify the higher per-host cost.” Perplexity Sonar, budget prompt
New Relic18%
13 of 72 labels negative · 11 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“complex pricing with a usage-based model that can lead to unexpectedly high bills as you scale” Claude Haiku 4.5, 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
69 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. 749 links across 144 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 Relic37 answers · 60 citations · 12 models
vendor site · G231 answers · 49 citations · 12 models
vendor site · Atatus30 answers · 55 citations · 11 models
29 answers · 29 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Scout APM24 answers · 39 citations · 11 models
vendor site · ManageEngine18 answers · 25 citations · 9 models
vendor site · CubeAPM18 answers · 18 citations · 6 models
17 answers · 17 citations · 10 models
vendor site · PostHog14 answers · 16 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Coralogix13 answers · 14 citations · 6 models
vendor site · Middleware.io12 answers · 12 citations · 6 models
11 answers · 12 citations · 8 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.
28 answers · 10 models
24 answers · 10 models
19 answers · 9 models
17 answers · 10 models
16 answers · 8 models
14 answers · 8 models
13 answers · 6 models
13 answers · 7 models
13 answers · 8 models
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Relic newrelic.com | 60% | 595 | 14,800 | 843 | 83,276 | $412 | 89 | 4 |
| Sentry sentry.io | 11% | 266 | 90,500 | 21,086 | 254,686 | 120 | ||
| Atatus atatus.com | 6% | 32 | 90 | 10 | 2,881 | |||
| Datadog datadoghq.com Datadog APM 6% | 6% | 185 | 74,000 | 3,541 | 159,408 company | $633 | 120 | |
| Scout scoutapm.com Scout APM 4% | 4% | 28 | 170 | 0 | 4,420 company | 1 | ||
| SigNoz signoz.io | 4% | 179 | 2,400 | 52 | 7,244 | 1 | 5 | |
| OpenObserve openobserve.ai | 4% | 85 | 1,600 | 9 | 4,825 | 7 | 5 | |
| Site24x7 site24x7.com Site24x7 2%, Site24x7 Applications Manager 2% | 4% | 304 | 1,300 | 61 | 174,542 | $522 | 120 | |
| Grafana Cloud grafana.com | 2% | 183 | 2,400 | 40 | 84,520 | 116 | ||
| AppSignal appsignal.com | 0% | 31 | 880 | 2 | 13,372 | 1 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 15 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (manageengine.com, newrelic.com, thectoclub.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 a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which application performance monitoring solution would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top APM tools for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best APM tool for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a APM tool. What should we look at?”Negative“Which APM tools should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceagainst: Datadog APM, DynatraceNew RelicChangedScout APM, Sentryagainst: Datadog APMAtatus, New Relicno first choiceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, New Relic, Pilot
Three alternatives
Elastic APM, Sentry, SolarWinds AppOpticsThree alternatives
AppSignal, Honeybadger, New RelicFour alternatives
Scout APM, Sentry, SolarWinds APM, UptraceGPT-5.4 miniSentryNew RelicChangedagainst: SolarWinds AppOpticsDatadog APM, New Relicagainst: AppDynamics, DynatraceNew Relicagainst: Datadog APMno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
Datadog APM, New Relic, Site24x7Two alternatives
Datadog APM, DynatraceTwo alternatives
Elastic APM, Grafana CloudOne alternative
Elastic APMGemini 3.5 FlashNew Relic, Sentryagainst: Datadog APMSentryChangedagainst: Datadog APMSentryagainst: Datadog APMNew Relicagainst: Datadog APMSentryagainst: Datadog APM, Elastic APM, Jaeger, Prometheusagainst: AppDynamics, BMC Helix, CA Application Performance Management, DIY ELK Stack, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, Micro Focus, New Relic, Raw OpenTelemetry + Prometheus + Jaeger
Three alternatives
AppSignal, Scout APM, SigNozThree alternatives
AppSignal, Honeycomb, New RelicThree alternatives
Honeycomb, New Relic, SigNozFive alternatives
AppSignal, Grafana Cloud, Scout APM, Sentry, SigNozThree alternatives
Grafana Cloud, New Relic, SigNozPerplexity SonarNew Relicagainst: Datadog APMNew RelicHeldSentryagainst: Datadog APM, New RelicNew Relicagainst: Datadog APMno first choiceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, Grafana Cloud, Jaeger, Lightstep, Prometheus, ServiceNow Cloud Observability, SigNoz
Three alternatives
Grafana Cloud, Sentry, SigNozOne alternative
Datadog APMFive alternatives
AppSignal, Grafana Cloud, Honeybadger, Scout APM, SigNozFour alternatives
Grafana Cloud, ManageEngine Applications Manager, Sentry, SigNozGrok 4.20Atatus, Datadog APMagainst: Dynatrace, Jaeger, Prometheus + GrafanaNew RelicChangedagainst: AppDynamics, DynatraceNew Relic, SigNozagainst: Dynatrace, IBM Instana, SplunkNew Relicagainst: Datadog APMNew Relicagainst: Datadog APM, Dynatraceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, Elastic APM, Flexera APM, IBM Instana, Jaeger, Prometheus, ServiceNow, Splunk Observability Cloud
Three alternatives
Google Cloud Monitoring, New Relic, SentryThree alternatives
Datadog APM, Sentry, Site24x7Three alternatives
Datadog APM, Elastic Observability, PostHogSix alternatives
Atatus, Grafana Cloud, ManageEngine Applications Manager, Prometheus, Sentry, Site24x7Three alternatives
AppSignal, Scout APM, SentryMistral SmallAtatus, Datadog APM, New Relicno first choiceChangedAppSignal, Honeybadger, Scout APM, Sentryagainst: Datadog APM, New RelicNew Relic, OpenObserveno first choiceagainst: AppDynamicsagainst: Dynatrace, ServiceNow APM
Two alternatives
Elastic Observability, RollbarFour alternatives
Atatus, Scout APM, Sentry, Site24x7DeepSeek V4 FlashNew Relicagainst: Datadog APM, DynatraceNew RelicHeldagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, SplunkAppSignal, Honeybadgeragainst: Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Loki, TempoNew RelicNew Relic, Sentryagainst: Datadog APM, Dynatraceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, New Relic, Sentry
Three alternatives
Atatus, Google Cloud Monitoring, SentryThree alternatives
AppSignal, Scout APM, SentryThree alternatives
New Relic, Scout APM, SentryThree alternatives
Grafana Cloud, Sentry, SigNozFour alternatives
AppSignal, Elastic APM, Grafana Cloud, Scout APMLlama 4 MaverickScout APMno first choiceChangedno first choiceOpenObserveno first choiceagainst: AppDynamics, Dynatrace, New Relic
Three alternatives
Atatus, Datadog APM, New RelicQwen 3.7 FlashDatadog APMNew RelicChangedAppSignal, Sentryagainst: Datadog APM, New RelicNew Relicagainst: Datadog APM, Dynatraceno first choiceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatraceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, Full Elastic Stack, Nagios, Prometheus + Grafana, Splunk, Zabbix
Three alternatives
New Relic, Sentry, SigNozThree alternatives
Datadog APM, ManageEngine Applications Manager, Site24x7One alternative
HoneybadgerTwo alternatives
Atatus, OpenObserveTwo alternatives
Honeycomb, New RelicKimi K2New Relic, Scout APMagainst: Datadog APM, DynatraceNew RelicChangedagainst: Datadog APM, DynatraceNew Relic, PostHogagainst: Datadog APM, DynatraceNew RelicSigNozagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatraceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk
Two alternatives
AppSignal, SentryTwo alternatives
ManageEngine Applications Manager, Site24x7One alternative
SentryFour alternatives
Atatus, Grafana Stack, OpenObserve, SigNozThree alternatives
Honeycomb, New Relic, Scout APMGLM 4.7 FlashXNew Relicagainst: Datadog APM, DynatraceSite24x7ChangedScout APMGrafana Cloud, New Relicagainst: Datadog APM, Netdatano first choiceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, Grafana Cloud, IBM Instana, New Relic, Prometheus, Raygun, UptimeRobot
Three alternatives
Atatus, ManageEngine OpManager Nexus, Scout APMTwo alternatives
AppSignal, Scout APMSeven alternatives
Coralogix, Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb, IBM Instana, New Relic, SigNozFour alternatives
Atatus, Jaeger, Prometheus, SigNozMiniMax M2.5no first choiceSite24x7 Applications ManagerChangedagainst: Datadog APM, New RelicScout APMagainst: Datadog APM, Dynatrace, New RelicNew Relicno first choiceagainst: Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud, OpenTelemetryagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, New Relic
One alternative
ManageEngine Applications ManagerThree alternatives
AppSignal, PostHog, SentryThree alternatives
Atatus, ManageEngine Applications Manager, OpenObserveGPT-6 LunaNew RelicNew RelicHeldNew Relic, SentryNew Relicno first choiceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog APM, Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk Observability Cloud
One alternative
Datadog APMTwo alternatives
Datadog APM, SentryThree alternatives
Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud, HoneycombOne alternative
Grafana CloudFive alternatives
Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud, Honeycomb, New Relic, SentryMuse Glimmer 30BNew RelicNew Relic, SentryChangedCubeAPM, New Relicagainst: DynatraceNew Relic, SigNozagainst: Datadog APMno first choiceagainst: AppDynamics, Datadog Full-Stack, Dynatrace, IBM Instana
Three alternatives
Atatus, Site24x7, UptraceTwo alternatives
Better Stack, Site24x7Five alternatives
Coralogix, Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud, Scout APM, SigNozTwo alternatives
Atatus, Elastic 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 11:14 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 10:44 | yes | 3 | 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 09:50 | no | 0 | 13 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 10:40 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 13:56 | yes | 5 | 8 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 10:41 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 12:28 | yes | 22 | 43 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 14:27 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 15:24 | no | 0 | 27 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 13:39 | yes | 10 | 45 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 19:09 | yes | 23 | 64 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 16:56 | yes | 5 | 132 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 15:05 | yes | 2 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 13:14 | yes | 13 | 22 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 14:32 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:30 | yes | 4 | 4 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 09:21 | no | 0 | 17 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 09:01 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:29 | yes | 5 | 9 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 09:39 | no | 0 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 15:08 | yes | 24 | 33 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 15:26 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:38 | yes | 5 | 43 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 10:33 | yes | 19 | 65 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 17:34 | yes | 25 | 25 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 13:33 | yes | 15 | 41 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 13:18 | yes | 2 | 14 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 09:45 | yes | 13 | 18 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 10:39 | yes | 16 | 10 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 14:41 | 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 09:56 | yes | 7 | 21 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 19:28 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 15:44 | yes | 5 | 16 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 19:36 | yes | 9 | 12 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 08:41 | yes | 25 | 40 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 14:09 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 08:54 | yes | 10 | 46 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 18:51 | yes | 14 | 40 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 12:00 | yes | 15 | 53 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 13:52 | yes | 13 | 50 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 12:08 | yes | 6 | 22 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 17:24 | yes | 14 | 31 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 14:20 | yes | 19 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 14:37 | yes | 3 | 11 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 12:10 | no | 0 | 14 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 08:59 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:26 | yes | 5 | 6 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:41 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 18:31 | yes | 22 | 38 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 08:49 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:26 | yes | 5 | 27 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 14:49 | yes | 10 | 20 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 09:55 | yes | 18 | 41 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 14:48 | yes | 5 | 18 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 12:52 | yes | 2 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 10:42 | yes | 13 | 21 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 10:54 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 14:13 | no | 0 | 7 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 11:35 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 14:45 | yes | 10 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 16:59 | yes | 15 | 14 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 14:28 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 16:37 | yes | 20 | 40 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:50 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 15:00 | no | 0 | 32 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 08:56 | yes | 10 | 42 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 13:27 | yes | 20 | 116 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:42 | no | 0 | 13 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 11:26 | yes | 6 | 15 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 13:05 | no | 0 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 11:30 | yes | 17 | 10 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 12:06 | yes | 3 | 4 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 19:17 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 09:26 | yes | 10 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:12 | yes | 13 | 14 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 17:07 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 12:14 | yes | 22 | 32 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 15:24 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 10:49 | no | 0 | 33 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 14:51 | yes | 25 | 34 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 15:03 | yes | 24 | 124 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 08:52 | yes | 5 | 32 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 12:30 | yes | 4 | 18 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 14:19 | yes | 13 | 39 s |
Normalization in this category
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Cisco AppDynamics read as AppDynamics
Datadog read as Datadog APM
Elastic read as Elastic APM
Grafana read as Grafana Cloud
Grafana (with Tempo/Pyroscope) read as Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud / Grafana stack read as Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud Free Tier read as Grafana Cloud
ManageEngine read as ManageEngine Applications Manager
Scout read as Scout APM
Scout Monitoring read as Scout APM
Splunk APM read as Splunk Observability Cloud
Unresolved, counted raw
Avo APM
CA Application Performance Management (Broadcom)
DIY ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Datadog Full-Stack
Flexera APM
Full Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Grafana with Prometheus
Librato
Pilot
Raw OpenTelemetry + Prometheus + Jaeger
Site24x7 Applications Manager
SolarWinds APM
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.