3 categories · RankedMicrosoft Fabric
Microsoft Fabric is a unified data platform from Microsoft that brings together data warehousing, ETL and ELT, dashboards and data visualization, and machine learning work · microsoft.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.
Starburst Galaxy is first at 25%.
Denodo is first at 31%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Denodo is first at 84%.
Why models recommend it
“Top Recommendation: Microsoft Fabric (with Starburst Galaxy integration)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Choose Microsoft Fabric/Azure or AWS services when minimizing cloud-platform fragmentation matters most.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“wants an integrated Microsoft analytics platform rather than a source-agnostic virtualization layer”Perplexity Sonar · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Already invested in Microsoft ecosystem | Most comprehensive end-to-end solution among hyperscalers”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Fully sunset by Google years ago”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Microsoft Fabric or Databricks used as "pure" virtualization by default... can create unnecessary platform, storage, and skills overhead”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Capacity-based pricing (~$32K-$100K+ annually); requires architecture rebuild if migrating”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Fabric, over the 45 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 16 | Compare → | |
| 22 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 13 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 10 | 6 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Microsoft Fabric →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Microsoft Fabric's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and business users
- Free plan or trial
- Try Microsoft Fabric free
- Customers named
- Melbourne Airport, Iceland Foods, Dener Motorsport, Bridgestone EMEA, Flora Food Group, Zeiss, Milliman, Ferguson
- Also from Microsoft
- Microsoft 365, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft 365 Administration, Microsoft 365 Backup, Microsoft 365 Compliance Center, Microsoft 365 Copilot and 165 more
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 38 of the 45 answers that named Microsoft Fabric and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-one of the ninety-six domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Fabric 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |