4 categories · Rankedgroundcover
groundcover is a full-stack observability platform for engineers and agents, covering application performance monitoring and log management · groundcover.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.
Grafana is first at 38%.
Grafana is first at 32%.
Datadog is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“Very cost-predictable (no surprise bills from log spikes)... Newer player; less mature ecosystem than leaders.”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Groundcover offers flat per-node pricing that won't change with data volume spikes.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Offers cost predictability with a flat per-node pricing model”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 groundcover, over the 29 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 6 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 3 | View → | |
| 12 | 6 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on groundcover's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- engineers & agents
- Price stated
- Every signal. One price.
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Start Free
- Certifications
- CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS
- Customers named
- Slickdeals, b.well, Cresta, Riskified, ex-co, Proofpoint, Ironclad, Workday
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 29 of the 29 answers that named groundcover and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy of the ninety-seven domain citations in answers naming groundcover 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 146 | 1 | 2026-08-12 | APM, Logs | |
| Glossary or explainer | 119 | 26 | 2026-08-29 | Observability | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 57 | undated | APM | ||
| Report or ebook | 49 | 28 | 2026-09-03 | APM, Observability | |
| Comparison | 49 | 0 | 2026-02-12 | ||
| Case study | 27 | 3 | 2026-08-19 | ||
| News or press | 25 | 8 | 2026-09-24 | Observability, Infra monitoring | |
| Template or tool | 2 | 1 | 2026-08-19 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Ceo of groundcover shahar azulay overviews new opportunities post wand deal news or press
- 2026-09-24Groundcover acquires wand to build toward autonomous infrastructure news or press
- 2026-09-15Groundcover becomes an approved google kubernetes engine autopilot partner news or press
- 2026-09-15Groundcover gains google cloud gke autopilot approval news or press
- 2026-09-03Ai observability evaluation platforms compared report or ebook
- 2026-09-03Apm tools comparison engineering teams report or ebook
Events in person
- March 25, 2026From Billions of Rows to Sub-Second Queries for K8s StacksAmsterdam · spoke
- March 24, 2026 to March 26, 2026KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Amsterdam 2026Amsterdam · exhibited
- March 23, 2026Tulips & Taps: Welkom to Kubecon Happy HourHeineken Experience, Amsterdam · hosted
As the event pages on groundcover.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page groundcover.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 September 29, 2026.