4 categories · RankedNetBox
NetBox is an open-source IP address management tool that works as an API-first source of truth for infrastructure · netboxlabs.com ↗
Leads at small business. Thin evidence at enterprise: eight labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is openDCIM at 24%.
Sunbird DCIM is first at 26%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Nlyte DCIM is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“Start with NetBox if you have technical staff who can manage it. It's the most capable and actively maintained free option”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“NetBox is the other accepted open-source challenger. It is commonly recommended for solo or very small IT teams”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Choose NetBox / NetBox Cloud if your B2B company operates multi-cloud or hybrid environments”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“NetBox is almost certainly your best bet — it's free, powerful, and widely used”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“NetBox and similar tools can work when engineering resources are available, but they are not a turnkey replacement”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Great for smaller B2B teams but lacks advanced monitoring/analytics... Not ideal if you need vendor support.”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
“it's not the same as getting one integrated DDI platform”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · warning
“but not a full facilities-monitoring DCIM platform”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as NetBox, over the 163 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 68 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 64 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 61 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 47 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 47 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 35 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 34 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 27 | 0 | View → | |
| 26 | 8 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of NetBox →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on NetBox's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- your team (and agents)
- Free plan or trial
- Start for free
- Customers named
- CoreWeave, Cisco Systems, Dartmouth College, Presidio
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 148 of the 163 answers that named NetBox and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
399 of the 456 domain citations in answers naming NetBox came from a third party's page. Fifty-seven 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 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 394 | undated | DCIM, SD-WAN | ||
| Conference or event | 123 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 63 | undated | DCIM | ||
| Podcast or video | 20 | undated | |||
| News or press | 19 | undated | |||
| Case study | 14 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 11 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 3 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | undated | DCIM |
Events in person
- October 8, 2026Red Hat Summit: Connect 2026 LondonTobacco Dock, London, UK · exhibits
- October 8, 2026Presidio OktoberTekFestMecklenburg 3, Charlotte · sponsors
As the event pages on netboxlabs.com state them, read October 5, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page netboxlabs.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.