2 categories · RankedPuppet
Puppet is an infrastructure operations platform for automation, configuration management, DevSecOps, compliance, CI/CD and patching · puppet.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“Excellent at enforcing desired state over time (self-heals drift), very mature enterprise tool”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Other notable options include Puppet (overall pick in some rankings)”Mistral Small · Direct question · alternative
“Best For: Large enterprises, complex configuration management”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Why avoid for IaC: Weak state-tracking engines compared to purpose-built IaC tools.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Puppet | ⚠️ Avoid for new projects | Declining, community fragmented”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Chef and Puppet — ⚠️ In decline ... Avoid for new work”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Only choose Puppet if you have massive scale requirements... because Puppet is expensive and rigid”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Puppet, over the 48 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 25 | View → | |
| 42 | 5 | View → | |
| 40 | 5 | View → | |
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 34 | 14 | View → | |
| 30 | 1 | View → | |
| 23 | 0 | View → | |
| 22 | 0 | View → | |
| 21 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Puppet →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Puppet's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- DevOps teams
- Price stated
- Free; Custom; Contact Sales
- Starting price
- Free
- Free plan or trial
- Developer
- Customers named
- Ambit Energy, ANZ Bank, Fannie Mae, Transurban, 1-800-Flowers, athenahealth, CERN, Daiwa Capital
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 40 of the 48 answers that named Puppet and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
109 of the 109 domain citations in answers naming Puppet 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 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 305 | 10 | 2026-09-28 | Patching, IaC | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 53 | undated | |||
| Case study | 44 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 43 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 19 | 2 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 11 | 0 | 2026-04-14 | IaC | |
| Conference or event | 9 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Trusted infrastructure sovereign ai blog
- 2026-09-24Soci compliance blog
- 2026-09-18Chef vs puppet fact check chef 360 comparison comparison
- 2026-09-01Puppet vs chef comparison
- 2026-08-26Solve compliance challenges blog
- 2026-08-21Financial services continuous compliance blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page puppet.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.