SONiC
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.
Arista Networks is first at 22%.
Arista Networks is first at 42%.
Arista Networks is first at 52%.
Why models recommend it
“best value usually comes from a white-box or merchant-silicon platform running SONiC”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Open / white-box SONiC as the lowest CapEx path”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“SONiC (Switch ON Linux). Microsoft created this, and it is becoming the global standard for data centers.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Choose SONiC / Open Networking if you have strong internal software engineering/DevOps capabilities”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“If you lack a dedicated network DevOps team, avoid SONiC/white box solutions — the risk/reward calculus doesn't favor you.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“SONiC is multi-vendor and open source, but the project's own FAQ says it is community-supported”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as SONiC, over the 32 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 17 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of SONiC →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
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 22 of the 32 answers that named SONiC and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
No domain is on file for SONiC, so its own site is not marked. Five 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |