Grafana vs Prometheus
One of fourteen models named Grafana first on the direct prompt; zero named Prometheus. Grafana was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Prometheus by thirteen and Grafana carries 33 labels and Prometheus 31, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in nine categories this edition.
Named in nine 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 infrastructure monitoring page.
By framing
GrafanaFirst choices, of fourteen modelsPrometheus
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Grafana and Prometheus were named in the same answer 110 times, of the 332 answers naming Grafana and the 351 naming Prometheus. In those answers Prometheus took the first choice four times and Grafana thirteen.
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 | | |
Grafana Prometheus first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Grafana on the left and Prometheus on the right.The direct prompt
Grafana first, Prometheus not the choice
1 of 14 modelsPrometheus 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
Grafana8%#5 of 16Prometheus0%#13 of 16What the models said about Grafana
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“Open-source like Zabbix/Prometheus + Grafana work if you have in-house talent for maintenance, but they add operational burden.” Grok 4.20 · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Be cautious if it's internet-facing without properly configured authentication, permissions, and network restrictions.” GPT-6 Luna · negative prompt · soft negative
“High learning curve; limited GUI configuration options; requires significant manual config file editing” GLM 4.7 FlashX · negative prompt · soft negative
What the models said about Prometheus
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“Open-source like Zabbix/Prometheus + Grafana work if you have in-house talent for maintenance, but they add operational burden.” Grok 4.20 · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Don't expose Prometheus, Alertmanager, exporters, or their metrics and debugging endpoints directly to the public internet.” GPT-6 Luna · negative prompt · soft negative
“Kubernetes & Cloud-Native (Budget Aware) | Prometheus + Grafana | Industry standard, native Kubernetes support, highly customizable.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
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.