3 categories · RankedFaddom
Faddom is an application dependency mapping tool for hybrid IT environments · faddom.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.
Zero Networks Segment is first at 30%.
ColorTokens Xshield is first at 36%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
No model named it for this buyer.
Why models recommend it
“the best starting point is usually Faddom for agentless application-dependency mapping”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with Faddom (for quick, affordable visibility)”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best Dedicated Budget-Friendly Tool: Faddom”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Excellent if your priority is automated discovery and mapping without agents, at a lower cost point.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Faddom, over the 44 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 11 | View → | |
| 14 | 4 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 2 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 2 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Faddom's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- IT and security teams managing hybrid environments
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial
- Customers named
- Redpath mining, Suresurve, CHG Healthcare, Gatestone, SIBS Romania, Mount Royal University, Coreso, Ornge
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 44 of the 44 answers that named Faddom and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
116 of the 148 domain citations in answers naming Faddom came from a third party's page. Nineteen were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 214 | 8 | 2026-09-24 | IT documentation, Microsegmentation | |
| Comparison | 51 | 1 | 2026-09-28 | ITSM, ITAM | |
| Report or ebook | 31 | 2 | 2026-08-20 | ITSM, Microsegmentation | |
| Case study | 28 | 12 | 2026-09-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 13 | 0 | 2025-12-27 | Microsegmentation | |
| Template or tool | 9 | 1 | 2026-07-18 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 8 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Nagios alternatives comparison
- 2026-09-24Enterprise network monitoring tools blog
- 2026-09-22Best tools for mapping application dependencies in hybrid environments blog
- 2026-09-14Nutanix flow 5 key features use cases and limitations blog
- 2026-09-01Ornge Customer Story.pdf case study
- 2026-09-01Coreso Customer Story.pdf case study
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page faddom.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.