4 categories · RankedSolarWinds Orion
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“Because of the historic SUNBURST incident and the extremely critical advisory on Orion, organizations that still run SolarWinds asset / monitoring components are typically advised to do a thorough risk assessment”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“CISA issued a rare emergency directive calling on all federal agencies to "review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products immediately."”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“This is the clearest case of a tool to avoid or approach with extreme skepticism.”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“This is the most significant cautionary tale... the breach was devastating.”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Orion, over the 21 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 1 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on SolarWinds Orion's own site, not checked by Gane.
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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 18 of the 21 answers that named SolarWinds Orion and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-eight of the fifty-two domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds Orion 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 | 2 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |