10 categories · RankedSolarWinds
SolarWinds is hybrid IT observability and IT management software for IT professionals · solarwinds.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.
Better Stack is first at 29%.
Datadog Log Management is first at 31%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Splunk is first at 45%.
Why models recommend it
“For most mid-market B2B companies, Graylog or SolarWinds offer the best balance of features, cost, and scalability.”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · first choice
“Look toward competitors like SolarWinds, Datadog, or dedicated ITFM providers that are stable.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“SolarWinds — Best for Hybrid IT Environments”Kimi K2 · Direct question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Strong "avoid at all costs" sentiment in sysadmin communities, often tied to past security breaches”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Avoid enterprise-heavy tools like SolarWinds or Datadog unless your needs are very advanced”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
“Avoid if possible: Fully commercial tools like SolarWinds, LogicMonitor, or Auvik”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Avoid using standard SQL query monitors for data observability.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds, over the 63 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 1 | View → | |
| 18 | 3 | View → | |
| 18 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 2 | View → | |
| 11 | 3 | View → | |
| 11 | 2 | View → | |
| 10 | 3 | View → | |
| 10 | 3 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on SolarWinds's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- IT professionals
- Price stated
- Simple, transparent pricing.
- Starting price
- 8
- Free plan or trial
- Free Product Trials
- Customers named
- Corevist, Silverback Systems, Pine Labs, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, National Sugar Marketing Cooperative, Inc., Kilvington Grammar School, Expo City Dubai
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 51 of the 63 answers that named SolarWinds and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-nine of the 120 domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds came from a third party's page. Nine 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 2,197 | 8 | 2026-09-21 | SIEM, Observability | |
| News or press | 320 | 0 | 2026-04-15 | Observability | |
| Podcast or video | 225 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 164 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 71 | undated | |||
| Case study | 51 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 46 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 46 | 0 | 2026-03-26 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 8 | 2 | 2026-09-07 | ||
| Template or tool | 8 | 0 | 2020-10-07 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-21Enterprise service management is for more than it hr facilities and finance use cases blog
- 2026-09-15Red cards comeback wins and the unsung defense keeping modern business online blog
- 2026-09-15September 15 solarwinds service desk release blog
- 2026-09-095 findings from the 2026 state of itsm report for service desk leaders blog
- 2026-09-09Sap hana architecture explained blog
- 2026-09-07September database webinars webinar or virtual event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page solarwinds.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.