Index › IT › Products › Steampipe · November 2026 Edition
3 categories · Named, not ranked

Steampipe

steampipe.io ↗

–Too few to rank
3/14Models named it
0First choices
1Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inCloud security posture management #38 mid-marketCloud-native application protection #60Data security posture management #83
What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Steampipe has 5.

Why models recommend it

“or Steampipe (for SQL-like queries on cloud configs) for enhanced capabilities”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Steampipe (*Best for SQL-based Security Customization*)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

“relying on unmaintained open-source projects for ongoing enterprise protection creates maintenance drift”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Steampipe, over the 9 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

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

The sites and pages the answers that named Steampipe came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 6 of the 9 answers that named Steampipe and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com4
csoonline.com3
github.com3
aikido.dev2
comparitech.com2
guideflow.com2
sourceforge.net2
startupstash.com2
azure.microsoft.com1
bestdefense.io1

Twenty-two of the twenty-two domain citations in answers naming Steampipe came from a third party's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Steampipe across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01012
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2001001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200202
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000