# InfluxDB 3 Core: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/influxdb-3-core

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Time series databases](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/time-series-databases/index.md) | 0% | 45 | 50% | 2 |

## What the models said for it

- "a very cost-effective option is InfluxDB 3 Core" (GPT-5.4 mini, Time series DBs)

## And against it

- "InfluxDB's licensing changes - InfluxData has shifted focus toward enterprise/cloud; v3 doesn't have an open-source version yet." (Kimi K2, Time series DBs)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named InfluxDB 3 Core, from 6 of the 6 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- docs.influxdata.com: 5
- prometheus.io: 4
- clickhouse.com: 3
- docs.victoriametrics.com: 3
- influxdata.com: 3
- tigerdata.com: 2
- docs.controlplane.com: 1
- g2.com: 1
- gane.ai/index: 1
- github.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/what-is-time-series-database: 3
- https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/comparison: 3
- https://docs.influxdata.com/: 2
- https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb3/core: 2
- https://docs.influxdata.com/platform/faq: 2
- https://docs.victoriametrics.com/victoriametrics/faq: 2
- https://influxdata.com/storing-time-series-data: 2
- https://docs.controlplane.com/template-catalog/templates/timescaledb: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.
