4 categories · RankedThanos
Thanos is a long-term storage tier that is layered on top of Prometheus to provide federated, distributed storage for metrics · thanos.io ↗
Why models recommend it
“Best for: Monitoring and alerting use cases ... Cons: Limited long-term storage capabilities”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Always pair Prometheus with a long-term remote-storage solution like Thanos”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“Not a database itself; it's a sidecar for Prometheus.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“self-hosted Prometheus/Thanos/Cortex at massive scale ... requires significant engineering overhead”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Thanos, over the 38 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 0 | View → | |
| 25 | 2 | View → | |
| 23 | 7 | View → | |
| 22 | 9 | View → | |
| 18 | 2 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Thanos →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Thanos's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Integrations
- 5
- Customers named
- Adfinis, Adform, Adobe, Aiven, Amadeus, Arlo, Authzed, Banco do Brasil
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 38 answers that named Thanos and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Seventy-two of the seventy-two domain citations in answers naming Thanos 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 8 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page thanos.io 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. Read September 29, 2026.