2 categories · RankedAxiom
Axiom is a machine data platform for log management and observability, built for engineers and their agents · axiom.co ↗
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.
Better Stack is first at 29%.
Datadog Log Management is first at 31%.
Splunk is first at 45%.
Why models recommend it
“Start with Axiom if you need generous storage and retention on a free tier”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For startups or small tech teams: Start with Axiom or Grafana Cloud.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Safer or highly recommended alternatives... Budget-friendly/low-volume: Axiom”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
“Provides a free 500 GB tier and a Team plan starting at $25/month”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Axiom, over the 41 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 8 | View → | |
| 21 | 1 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 5 | View → | |
| 18 | 4 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 2 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Axiom's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- engineers and their agents
- Price stated
- Pay only for what you use. Automatic volume discounts in-console. Permanent free tier. Self-serve enterprise add-ons. Per-unit rates drop at higher tiers, so total cost grows sub-linearly with usage.
- Starting price
- 25
- Free plan or trial
- Permanent free tier. Sign up in 30 seconds. No credit card.
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA
- Customers named
- Asana, Bedrock Robotics, Carbon3D, Convex, Eventim, Factory, Framer, Luma AI
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 30 of the 41 answers that named Axiom and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-one of the ninety-one domain citations in answers naming Axiom 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 127 | 14 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Report or ebook | 30 | undated | |||
| Case study | 15 | 1 | 2026-08-10 | ||
| Comparison | 6 | 1 | 2026-08-08 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28The agents would like a word with you blog
- 2026-09-24Adaptive tiering blog
- 2026-09-22Hermes agent plugin blog
- 2026-09-03Introducing axiom for splunk move your data not your team blog
- 2026-09-01Why does splunk cost so much blog
- 2026-09-01How much does it cost to store machine data in splunk blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page axiom.co 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. Read September 29, 2026.