Data quality and observability · RankedElementary
Elementary is a data quality and observability product for teams that build their data stack in dbt · elementary-data.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.
Metaplane is first at 40%.
Metaplane is first at 23%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Monte Carlo is first at 43%.
Why models recommend it
“Soda Core or Elementary would be excellent starting points”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Top Recommendation: Elementary (Open Source, Self-Hosted)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Elementary is a popular open-source option that integrates well with dbt projects and is free to use”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Start with open-source: Tools like Elementary (for dbt), Soda Core, or built-in warehouse features”Kimi K2 · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Open-source options like dbt tests or Elementary can be starters but may lack full automation.”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Elementary, over the 43 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 37 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 35 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 29 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 28 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 21 | 0 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Elementary →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Elementary's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Engineers, business users, and AI
- Price stated
- Our pricing is based on number of seats and environments, making it simple, predictable and scalable.
- Free plan or trial
- Start free
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II
- Customers named
- Elastic, RGA, Now Pensions, Fiverr, StubHub International, Scalapay
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 42 of the 43 answers that named Elementary and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
147 of the 147 domain citations in answers naming Elementary 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 63 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 25 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 25 | undated | |||
| Case study | 11 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 4 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 3 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page elementary-data.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 October 5, 2026.