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Cacti

Cacti is a network and infrastructure monitoring tool that uses SNMP to track bandwidth and device activity and presents the history as graphs · cacti.net ↗

–Too few to rank
4/14Models named it
0First choices
9Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inInfrastructure monitoring #73 mid-marketNetwork monitoring and management #76
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Cacti has 4.

Why models recommend it

No positive label carried a quote.

What gives them pause

“Tools and categories to avoid or approach with caution include... Cacti, Ganglia, and Classic Zenoss”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“it relies on RRDtool, which is considered obsolete technology by modern standards”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Old forks of Nagios, Cacti, or MRTG that rely on obsolete PHP/Python dependencies.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Cacti, over the 10 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Cacti's own site, not checked by Gane.

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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.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Cacti came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 5 of the 10 answers that named Cacti and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

checkmk.com3
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kentik.com3
cisa.gov2
faddom.com2
manageengine.com2
paessler.com2
pathsolutions.com2
techtarget.com2
arista.com1

Twenty-two of the twenty-two domain citations in answers naming Cacti came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Cacti across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00022
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2000000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00112
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000