# DDI and IP address management: what AI models recommend, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "DDI platform" and as "IP address management tool", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026; its answers are read by the distilled judge (ai-indexes-judge-qwen3-14b-run3), not the claude-opus-5 judge of the earlier categories. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/network/ddi-and-ipam/

**Standing:** BlueCat Micetro leads with 15% of first choices; verdict contested. 53 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| # | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BlueCat Micetro | 15% | 0% | 11 |
| 2 | SolarWinds IP Address Manager | 13% | 18% | 39 |
| 3 | ManageEngine OpUtils | 11% | 0% | 11 |
| 4 | phpIPAM | 9% | 9% | 22 |
| 5 | NetBox | 8% | 15% | 13 |
| 6 | BlueCat Integrity | 6% | 27% | 48 |
| 7 | EfficientIP SOLIDserver | 4% | 16% | 32 |
| 8 | Micetro | 4% | 0% | 16 |
| 9 | Men&Mice | 4% | 10% | 10 |
| 10 | Infoblox Universal DDI | 4% | 20% | 10 |
| 11 | Infoblox | 2% | 48% | 42 |

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: no first choice
- GPT-5.4 mini: BlueCat Integrity; alternatives EfficientIP SOLIDserver, Infoblox
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: BlueCat Micetro; alternatives EfficientIP SOLIDserver
- Perplexity Sonar: Men&Mice, Micetro; alternatives Infoblox Universal DDI, ManageEngine DDI Central, SolarWinds IP Address Manager
- Grok 4.1 Fast: Micetro; alternatives Infoblox Universal DDI, SolarWinds IP Address Manager, TCPWave
- Mistral Small: Infoblox Universal DDI; alternatives BlueCat Integrity, EfficientIP SOLIDserver
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: BlueCat Micetro; alternatives BlueCat Integrity, SolarWinds IP Address Manager
- Llama 4 Maverick: Men&Mice, SolarWinds IP Address Manager; alternatives Infoblox Universal DDI
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Infoblox Universal DDI, SolarWinds IP Address Manager; alternatives BlueCat Integrity, Micetro
- Kimi K2: BlueCat Micetro; alternatives EfficientIP SOLIDserver, ManageEngine OpUtils
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Infoblox Universal DDI Management; alternatives BlueCat Integrity, SolarWinds IP Address Manager
- MiniMax M2.5: BlueCat Integrity, SolarWinds IP Address Manager; alternatives Men&Mice
- GPT-6 Luna: BlueCat Micetro; alternatives Infoblox Universal DDI, Windows Server's built-in IPAM
- Muse Glimmer 30B: BlueCat Micetro; alternatives EfficientIP SOLIDserver, Infoblox Universal DDI, TCPWave DDI

## Sources the answers cite

74 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- devopsschool.com: 34 answers, 35 citations
- bluecatnetworks.com: 33 answers, 79 citations
- peerspot.com: 29 answers, 43 citations
- itechguides.com: 28 answers, 55 citations
- blog.domotz.com: 27 answers, 27 citations
- sourceforge.net: 26 answers, 30 citations
- us.fitgap.com: 24 answers, 39 citations
- infoblox.com: 21 answers, 39 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://blog.domotz.com/all/ipam-solutions (27 answers)
- https://devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison (27 answers)
- https://peerspot.com/categories/ddi (20 answers)
- https://us.fitgap.com/search/ddi-management-platform (17 answers)
- https://cotocus.com/blog/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison (15 answers)
- https://gitnux.org/best/ddi-software (14 answers)
- https://itechguides.com/best/ddi-management-platform (13 answers)
- https://gartner.com/reviews/market/dns-dhcp-and-ip-address-management-ddi (12 answers)
- https://itechguides.com/best/ip-address-management-software (12 answers)
- https://us.fitgap.com/search/ddi-management-platform/enterprise (12 answers)

## Warned against

- Infoblox: 20 of 42 labels negative. "Avoid: Enterprise solutions like Infoblox or EfficientIP SOLIDserver unless you have a larger budget" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- BlueCat Integrity: 13 of 48 labels negative. "Avoid enterprise platforms like Infoblox, BlueCat, and EfficientIP SOLIDserver" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- SolarWinds IP Address Manager: 7 of 39 labels negative. "High Caution: SolarWinds ... The 2020 SUNBURST supply chain attack compromised SolarWinds Orion software" (Kimi K2, negative prompt)
- EfficientIP SOLIDserver: 5 of 32 labels negative. "Avoid: Enterprise solutions like Infoblox or EfficientIP SOLIDserver unless you have a larger budget" (Kimi K2, budget prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://it-ai-index.com/methodology/
- Raw judge labels and full responses: https://it-ai-index.com/data/
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition, it-ai-index.com.