DDI and IP address management · RankedphpIPAM
phpIPAM is an open-source IP address management application for documenting and managing IP address space, with reporting and change history · phpipam.net ↗
Strongest at small business, contested with SolarWinds IP Address Manager. Thin evidence at enterprise: two labels.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first, contested: SolarWinds IP Address Manager has 21%.
BlueCat Micetro is first at 15%.
Infoblox Universal DDI is first at 60%.
Why models recommend it
“Highly recommended for budget-conscious teams, especially if you need a simple, flexible, and self-hosted IP address management tool.”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“phpIPAM and NetBox Both are free and widely used as a best-value starting point for a small / limited-budget team.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“open-source solutions like phpIPAM or entry-level commercial options like SolarWinds tend to offer the best value”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best overall: phpIPAM + ISC Kea + AD DNS (if you have Linux expertise)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Use phpIPAM only if you have a small network, strong in-house Linux skills, and can accept the trade-offs in automation and support.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Paraphrase question · warning
“Open-source IPAM tools (e.g., unmaintained phpIPAM setups or custom GitHub wrappers) ... often lack automated sync features”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“It lacks the built-in DHCP/DNS servers of commercial suites but manages addresses efficiently.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Comparative question · warning
“it's not the same as getting one integrated DDI platform”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as phpIPAM, over the 83 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 15 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 45 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 33 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 30 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 28 | 0 | View → | |
| 19 | 6 | View → | |
| 14 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of phpIPAM →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on phpIPAM's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Price stated
- free
- Starting price
- 0.00
- Free plan or trial
- Download free or try the live demo.
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 77 of the 83 answers that named phpIPAM and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
227 of the 270 domain citations in answers naming phpIPAM came from a third party's page. Forty-three 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 26 | undated | |||
| Blog | 22 | 0 | 2026-05-20 |
Most recent
- 2026-05-20Phpipam installation on ubuntu 26 04 LTS blog
- 2026-05-10Phpipam v1 8 released blog
- 2024-11-06Phpipam v1 7 released blog
- 2023-01-23Phpipam installation on centos7 php8 nginx blog
- 2022-05-03Phpipam v1 5 released blog
- 2019-07-02Phpipam v1 4 released blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page phpipam.net 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. Read October 5, 2026.