4 categories · Named, not rankedCloud Custodian
Cloud Custodian is an open-source rules engine that uses YAML policies to manage cloud accounts · cloud.nl ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Cloud Custodian has 7.
Why models recommend it
“Pairing these native tools with Cloud Custodian ... gives enterprise-grade cleanup without paying a dime”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Consider open-source alternatives like Cloud Custodian or Infracost for lighter-weight needs”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“Prowler + Kubescape + Checkov + Cloud Custodian for multi-cloud at $0 license”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“An OSS stack of Prowler + Kubescape + Checkov + Cloud Custodian”Muse Glimmer 30B · 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 Cloud Custodian, over the 13 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 6 | View → | |
| 8 | 2 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 1 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cloud Custodian's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Customers named
- Junior Einstein
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 11 of the 13 answers that named Cloud Custodian and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Thirty-nine of the thirty-nine domain citations in answers naming Cloud Custodian 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 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | 3 | 0 | 2026-05-12 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2026-03-26 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | 0 | 2026-03-26 |
Most recent
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cloud.nl 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.