4 categories · RankedAnsible
Ansible is an automation tool used for configuration management on servers and virtual machines, including legacy on-premise environments · ansible.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Terraform is first at 49%.
Terraform is first at 58%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Terraform is first at 62%.
Why models recommend it
“For a budget-constrained company, Ansible is the safest bet if you need a free, open-source solution”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Ansible if your focus is more on app deployment/config than pure infrastructure ... less ideal for complex cloud resource graphs”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Choose Ansible if your main need is configuration and automation of systems rather than provisioning cloud resources.”GPT-5.4 mini · Comparative question · alternative
“Choose Ansible when the main need is configuring existing servers rather than provisioning cloud infrastructure.”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Why avoid for IaC: Weak state-tracking engines compared to purpose-built IaC tools.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Ansible, Chef, Salt, and Puppet for primary provisioning. These are primarily configuration-management tools, not infrastructure-provisioning engines.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“More focused on configuration than pure infrastructure provisioning; Terraform/OpenTofu are better for infrastructure lifecycle management.”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Not ideal for pure infrastructure provisioning (creating VPCs, instances) compared to Terraform; state management is less robust”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Ansible, over the 145 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 118 | 72 | Compare → | |
| 112 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 101 | 0 | View → | |
| 85 | 38 | Compare → | |
| 64 | 0 | View → | |
| 62 | 0 | View → | |
| 53 | 0 | View → | |
| 42 | 0 | View → | |
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Ansible →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Ansible's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Ansible users, customers, partners, and vendors
- Price stated
- It is free to use
- Free plan or trial
- It is free to use
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
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. These counts come from 117 of the 145 answers that named Ansible and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
288 of the 288 domain citations in answers naming Ansible came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Events in person
- August 31, 2026 to September 3, 2026Red Hat at LEAP 2026RECC Malham, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · exhibited
- May 14, 2026 to May 17, 2026Red Hat at PyCon 2026Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach · exhibited
- May 11, 2026 to May 13, 2026SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference OrlandoOrange County Convention Center, Orlando · sponsored
- March 19, 2026 to March 21, 2026SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference MadridIFEMA Madrid, Madrid · sponsored
- March 17, 2026 to March 19, 2026SAPinsider Las Vegas 2026Bellagio, Las Vegas · sponsored
- November 5, 2025Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Toronto, ONFairmont Royal York, Toronto, Canada · took part
As the event pages on ansible.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page ansible.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.