Microsoft 365 management for enterprise buyers
Asked as “Microsoft 365 management tool”, and as “Microsoft 365 governance and administration tool”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 54 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. 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: how the two compare.
Standing · first-choice share
31%
Contested · Rencore Governance 11%
31CoreView11Rencore Governance07Microsoft Purview50others
31% of first choices, contested.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Show the two products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
For buyers
All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight products, each against each
CoreView vs Microsoft PurviewCoreView vs Syskit PointCoreView vs Microsoft 365 Admin CenterCoreView vs CIPPAdminDroid vs ManageEngine M365 Manager PlusAdminDroid vs BetterCloudAdminDroid vs Microsoft PurviewAdminDroid vs Syskit PointAdminDroid vs Microsoft 365 Admin CenterAdminDroid vs CIPPManageEngine M365 Manager Plus vs BetterCloudManageEngine M365 Manager Plus vs Microsoft PurviewManageEngine M365 Manager Plus vs Syskit PointManageEngine M365 Manager Plus vs Microsoft 365 Admin CenterManageEngine M365 Manager Plus vs CIPPBetterCloud vs Microsoft PurviewBetterCloud vs Syskit PointBetterCloud vs Microsoft 365 Admin CenterBetterCloud vs CIPPMicrosoft Purview vs Syskit PointMicrosoft Purview vs Microsoft 365 Admin CenterMicrosoft Purview vs CIPPSyskit Point vs Microsoft 365 Admin CenterSyskit Point vs CIPPMicrosoft 365 Admin Center vs CIPP
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
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Key
01CoreView31%
CoreView31%02Rencore Governance11%
Rencore Governance11%03ShareGate7%
ShareGate7%04Microsoft Purview7%
Microsoft Purview7%05Orchestry7%
Orchestry7%06AvePoint Confidence Platform6%
AvePoint Confidence Platform6%07ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus6%
ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus6%08AvePoint Cloud Management4%
09Microsoft 365 Admin Center4%
10Syskit Point2%
Syskit Point2%11Microsoft Intune2%
Microsoft Intune2%12Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 3650%
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 3650%13AdminDroid0%
AdminDroid0%What they warned about
Two of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX, MiniMax M2.5 and Muse Glimmer 30B changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Microsoft 365 Admin Center
29%
5 of 17 labels negative · 4 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“Do not use the native portals as your sole management layer. They are too fragmented for large-scale governance.” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus13%
3 of 23 labels negative · 3 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“**Avoid** tools like ManageEngine's per-100-user pricing at your scale, as costs compound unpredictably.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt
AvePoint Confidence Platform10%
3 of 30 labels negative · 3 of 14 models
“The learning curve comes up repeatedly, with customers saying the interface feels overwhelming initially with too many options and limited onboarding guidance” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse
43%
3 of 7 labels negative · 3 of 14 models
“it is **not** the best answer for a large single enterprise seeking predictable cost across thousands of users” GPT-5.4 mini, budget prompt
What they cite
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: fourteen of the fourteen in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.
Sites the answers cite
80 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 1155 links across 204 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. None of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category.
vendor site · G262 answers · 111 citations · 12 models
51 answers · 51 citations · 12 models
vendor site · CloudFuze41 answers · 44 citations · 11 models
vendor site · Microsoft40 answers · 107 citations · 12 models
vendor site · CoreView37 answers · 71 citations · 13 models
vendor site · Microsoft35 answers · 105 citations · 13 models
vendor site · SourceForge31 answers · 31 citations · 11 models
vendor site · ManageEngine24 answers · 37 citations · 9 models
vendor site · FitGap20 answers · 26 citations · 10 models
vendor site · Rencore17 answers · 33 citations · 7 models
vendor site · Microsoft16 answers · 30 citations · 10 models
15 answers · 21 citations · 8 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
51 answers · 12 models
39 answers · 11 models
37 answers · 12 models
34 answers · 11 models
31 answers · 11 models
19 answers · 10 models
17 answers · 10 models
14 answers · 7 models
14 answers · 6 models
13 answers · 7 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “best microsoft 365 management tool”, “microsoft 365 management tool”, “microsoft 365 management tools”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
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| CoreView coreview.com | 31% | 110 | 1,600 | 22 | 12,834 | 30 | ||
| Microsoft parent site Microsoft Purview 7%, Microsoft 365 Admin Center 4%, Microsoft Intune 2%, Microsoft Entra ID Governance 2% and 1 more | 15% | 480 | 2,240,000 | 403,136 | ||||
| Rencore Governance rencore.com | 11% | 35 | 10 | 0 | 716 | 0 | ||
| ShareGate sharegate.com ShareGate 7%, ShareGate Protect 0% | 7% | 58 | 2,900 | 121 | 8,630 | $224 | 120 | |
| Orchestry orchestry.com | 7% | 34 | 260 | 4 | 1,300 | 6 | ||
| AvePoint Cloud Governance avepoint.com AvePoint Confidence Platform 6%, AvePoint Cloud Governance 2% | 7% | 56 | 50 | 0 | 8,445 | $33 | 42 | |
| ManageEngine parent site ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus 6% | 6% | 64 | 8,100 | 675 | ||||
| AvePoint Cloud Management | 4% | 10 | 0 | |||||
| Syskit Point syskit.com | 2% | 43 | 90 | 0 | 12,411 | 45 | 1 | |
| Cost Management | 2% |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 15 sites; 4 of them are among the sites the models cited here (g2.com, learn.microsoft.com, manageengine.com, microsoft.com). The first result for “best microsoft 365 management tool” is syskit.com.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best Microsoft 365 management tool for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which Microsoft 365 governance and administration tool would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade Microsoft 365 management tools and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best Microsoft 365 management tool for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a Microsoft 365 management tool. What should we look at?”Negative“Which Microsoft 365 management tools should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5AvePoint Cloud ManagementMicrosoft Entra ID (Azure AD) Admin Center, Microsoft Purview Governance PortalChangedno first choiceCoreViewno first choiceagainst: AvePoint Confidence Platform, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft OneDrive
Three alternatives
CoreView ONE, ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, OrchestryThree alternatives
Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Teams Admin Center, SharePoint Admin CenterSix alternatives
AvePoint Cloud Management, BetterCloud, CoreView, ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, ShareGateTwo alternatives
AvePoint Cloud Management, ManageEngine M365 Manager PlusGPT-5.4 miniMicrosoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft PurviewMicrosoft Entra ID GovernanceChangedno first choiceMicrosoft 365 Enterprise with an Enterprise Agreement (EA) or Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) billingagainst: Microsoft 365 Lighthouseno first choiceagainst: The Microsoft 365 admin center
Three alternatives
AdminDroid, AvePoint Confidence Platform, Microsoft 365 LighthouseThree alternatives
Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Purview, SharePoint Advanced ManagementOne alternative
Microsoft 365 Admin CenterGemini 3.5 FlashCoreViewAvePoint Cloud GovernanceChangedCoreViewEasy365Manager, ShareGateagainst: AdminDroidCoreViewagainst: Azure AD Graph API, Entra Portal, Exchange Admin Center, Exchange Web Services, M365 Admin Center, MSOnline (MSOL) and AzureAD / AzureADPreview Modules, User Settings
Four alternatives
AdminDroid, AvePoint Confidence Platform, Rencore Governance, Syskit PointThree alternatives
CoreView, Rencore Governance, Syskit PointSix alternatives
AdminDroid, AvePoint Confidence Platform, Quest Software, Rencore Governance, ShareGate, Syskit PointFive alternatives
CoreView, InfraSOS, Rencore Governance, SeatPrune, SysClawThree alternatives
AvePoint Confidence Platform, Cayosoft, Rencore GovernancePerplexity SonarShareGateRencore GovernanceChangedAvePoint Cloud Management, CoreViewCoreView, ManageEngine M365 Manager Plusno first choiceagainst: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, PowerShell/Microsoft Graph
Two alternatives
AvePoint Cloud Management, ManageEngine M365 Manager PlusTwo alternatives
CoreView, ShareGate ProtectFour alternatives
AdminDroid, ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, Simeon Cloud, SyncroOne alternative
AvePoint Cloud ManagementGrok 4.1 FastCoreView, OrchestryMicrosoft PurviewChangedagainst: AvePoint Confidence Platform, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Entra ID Governance, Rencore GovernanceCoreView, ShareGateagainst: Microsoft 365 LighthouseCost Managementagainst: AvePoint Cloud Management, BetterCloud, ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, ShareGateShareGateagainst: Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Center, PowerShell for Microsoft 365
Four alternatives
AvePoint Confidence Platform, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft PurviewOne alternative
ShareGateFour alternatives
AdminDroid, AvePoint Confidence Platform, Orchestry, Syskit PointTwo alternatives
CoreView, Microsoft 365 LighthouseFour alternatives
AvePoint Confidence Platform, CoreView, Orchestry, Veeam Data Cloud for M365Mistral SmallOrchestryMicrosoft PurviewChangedCoreViewCoreViewMicrosoft 365 Admin Centernothing named
Two alternatives
IdentityIQ, PowerReviewThree alternatives
AvePoint Confidence Platform, CoreView, Rencore GovernanceTwo alternatives
Orchestry, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365Two alternatives
ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, ShareGateEleven alternatives
AvePoint Confidence Platform, CoreView, ManageEngine ADManager Plus, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Purview, Quest On Demand, ShareGate, Titus Classification, Veeam Microsoft 365 BackupDeepSeek V4 FlashCoreViewagainst: Microsoft 365 Admin CenterCoreViewHeldCoreViewAvePoint Cloud Managementagainst: ManageEngine M365 Manager PlusCoreViewagainst: Veeam Data Cloud for M365, inforceragainst: Native Admin Center, PowerShell
Two alternatives
AdminDroid, ManageEngine M365 Manager PlusFour alternatives
AvePoint Cloud Governance, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft PurviewSix alternatives
AvePoint Confidence Platform, ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, Rencore Governance, ShareGate, Syskit Point, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365Two alternatives
BetterCloud, CoreViewTwo alternatives
AdminDroid, AvePoint Confidence PlatformLlama 4 Maverickno first choiceRencore GovernanceChangedOrchestryCoreViewno first choicenothing named
Two alternatives
CloudFuze Manage, Powell GovernanceTwo alternatives
CloudFuze Manage, ShareGateQwen 3.7 FlashAvePoint Confidence PlatformRencore GovernanceChangedCoreView, OrchestryCoreViewagainst: Microsoft 365 Endpoint Manager + PurviewCoreView, Orchestryagainst: Exchange Online, Microsoft Entra ID, SharePoint "My Site" Hosts, Skype for Business
Three alternatives
Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Intune, OrchestryTwo alternatives
Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft PurviewTwo alternatives
Kronos, ZluriOne alternative
ManageEngine M365 Manager PlusOne alternative
AvePoint Cloud GovernanceKimi K2CoreViewRencore GovernanceChangedCoreViewRencore Governanceagainst: CoreView, ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, Orchestryno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
AdminDroid, AvePoint Confidence Platform, ManageEngine M365 Manager PlusFive alternatives
AvePoint Confidence Platform, CoreView, Microsoft Entra ID Governance, Microsoft Purview, ShareGateFour alternatives
AvePoint Confidence Platform, Quest On Demand Migration, ShareGate, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365One alternative
AvePoint Confidence PlatformGLM 4.7 FlashXCoreViewagainst: Native M365 Admin CenterMicrosoft Purview, OrchestryChangedAdminDroidMicrosoft Intuneno first choiceagainst: AvePoint Confidence Platform, CIPP, Exchange Admin Center, Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Microsoft 365 Lighthouse, ShareGate, SharePoint Admin Center
Four alternatives
AdminDroid, AvePoint Confidence Platform, ShareGate, Syskit PointOne alternative
CoreViewSeven alternatives
AvePoint Confidence Platform, CoreView, Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune, ShareGate, Syskit Point, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365Three alternatives
AvePoint Cloud Management, CloudFuze Manage, CoreViewMiniMax M2.5AvePoint Confidence Platform, Syskit PointRencore Governance, ShareGateChangedCoreViewno first choiceno first choicenothing named
Three alternatives
CoreView, ShareGate, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365One alternative
AvePoint Confidence PlatformTwo alternatives
AvePoint Cloud Management, Syskit PointGPT-6 LunaCoreViewCoreViewHeldCoreView, Microsoft's native admin centersManageEngine M365 Manager Plusno first choiceagainst: AzureAD, PnP PowerShell, SharePoint Add-Ins
Three alternatives
AvePoint Confidence Platform, Microsoft native tools, Quest On DemandTwo alternatives
AvePoint Cloud Governance, Microsoft PurviewFive alternatives
AvePoint Confidence Platform, ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, Quest On Demand, ShareGate Protect, Syskit PointOne alternative
CoreViewMuse Glimmer 30BManageEngine M365 Manager PlusAvePoint Confidence PlatformChangedAvePoint EnPower / AvePoint Confidence PlatformCoreViewno first choiceagainst: Entra ID Protection, Exchange Web Services, IDCRL – Identity Client Run Time Library, Microsoft Graph, PowerShell, SharePoint One-Time Passcode, The Admin app in Teams, Outlook and Microsoft365.com
Two alternatives
AvePoint Confidence Platform, CloudFuze ManageThree alternatives
CoreView, Microsoft Purview, ShareGate ProtectThree alternatives
ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, Orchestry, Quest On DemandTwo alternatives
ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
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| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:23 | yes | 18 | 8 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 01:15 | yes | 4 | 6 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:29 | yes | 12 | 25 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:20 | yes | 15 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:15 | yes | 21 | 12 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 00:28 | yes | 12 | 7 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:19 | yes | 20 | 30 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:28 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:40 | yes | 8 | 17 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:06 | yes | 13 | 27 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:32 | yes | 20 | 104 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:29 | yes | 12 | 15 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 01:07 | yes | 4 | 15 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:55 | yes | 12 | 14 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:15 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 22:12 | yes | 4 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:02 | yes | 15 | 27 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:26 | yes | 20 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:44 | yes | 23 | 15 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:51 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:16 | yes | 24 | 53 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:25 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:35 | yes | 5 | 29 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:09 | yes | 19 | 20 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-04 22:39 | yes | 24 | 31 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 23:20 | yes | 9 | 19 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:05 | yes | 3 | 15 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:53 | yes | 22 | 33 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-04 22:18 | yes | 15 | 9 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 00:30 | yes | 6 | 9 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-04 23:57 | yes | 20 | 31 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 00:20 | yes | 20 | 8 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 01:16 | yes | 21 | 13 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:41 | yes | 9 | 6 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:27 | yes | 23 | 74 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:15 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:37 | yes | 19 | 45 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:30 | yes | 19 | 34 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:14 | yes | 20 | 67 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 23:59 | yes | 12 | 30 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 01:16 | yes | 7 | 25 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:27 | yes | 23 | 40 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 00:24 | yes | 17 | 8 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 00:50 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 00:02 | yes | 27 | 32 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:11 | yes | 16 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-05 00:38 | yes | 22 | 10 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-05 01:16 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 01:42 | yes | 23 | 50 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-04 23:38 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-05 01:45 | yes | 10 | 74 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-05 01:32 | yes | 23 | 44 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:47 | yes | 21 | 18 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 00:45 | yes | 20 | 62 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 23:59 | yes | 3 | 17 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 01:28 | yes | 20 | 37 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:38 | yes | 18 | 14 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-05 00:01 | yes | 4 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:20 | yes | 9 | 29 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:03 | yes | 17 | 5 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 22:40 | yes | 23 | 13 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:24 | no | 0 | 9 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:36 | yes | 23 | 68 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 00:04 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 23:54 | yes | 10 | 60 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:59 | yes | 21 | 31 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 01:26 | yes | 13 | 101 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-05 01:05 | no | 0 | 58 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-04 22:54 | yes | 2 | 24 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-05 00:48 | yes | 14 | 27 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-10-05 01:37 | yes | 18 | 10 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-10-04 22:10 | yes | 6 | 8 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.5-flash | 2026-10-05 01:16 | yes | 17 | 29 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-10-05 01:27 | yes | 17 | 4 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.1 Fast | spacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex | 2026-10-04 22:27 | yes | 24 | 13 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-10-04 23:55 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-10-05 00:41 | yes | 22 | 66 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-10-05 01:20 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-10-04 22:31 | no | 0 | 28 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-10-04 23:06 | yes | 25 | 37 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-10-05 00:40 | yes | 22 | 432 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-10-04 22:47 | yes | 20 | 41 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-10-05 00:57 | yes | 4 | 25 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-10-04 23:54 | yes | 23 | 35 s |
Normalization in this category
Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.
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Category-scoped readings
AvePoint read as AvePoint Confidence Platform
AvePoint (Cloud Governance + EnPower + Elements) read as AvePoint Confidence Platform
AvePoint (Cloud Governance / Elements) read as AvePoint Confidence Platform
AvePoint (Cloud Governance or Fly) read as AvePoint Confidence Platform
AvePoint (Confidence Platform) read as AvePoint Confidence Platform
CloudFuze read as CloudFuze Manage
Cloudfuze read as CloudFuze Manage
ManageEngine read as ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus
Rencore read as Rencore Governance
Veeam read as Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
Veeam (Backup) read as Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
Unresolved, counted raw
AvePoint EnPower / AvePoint Confidence Platform
AvePoint FLY
Azure Automation
AzureAD
Binary Tree
BitTitan
Cloud PC Settings
Cost Management
Easy365Manager (or EasyEntra)
Entra ID Privileged Identity Management (PIM)
Entra Portal
Exchange Online
Frontier Suite
Group Policy/Cloud Policy
IdentityIQ
InfraSOS
Kronos
MSOnline (MSOL) and AzureAD / AzureADPreview Modules
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
Microsoft 365 Endpoint Manager + Purview
Microsoft 365 Enterprise with an Enterprise Agreement (EA) or Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) billing
Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance Center (now Purview)
Microsoft 365 admin tooling
Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) Admin Center
Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Graph Data Connect
Microsoft Purview Governance Portal
Microsoft native tools
Native Admin Center (admin.microsoft.com)
Native M365 Admin Center
Office Deployment Tool
PaperCut/PrinterLogic
PowerReview
Quest On Demand Migration
Quest Software (Quest On Demand & Metalogix)
SeatPrune
SharePoint "My Site" Hosts (Personal Sites)
SharePoint Add-Ins
SharePoint Framework (SPFx)
SharePoint One-Time Passcode
Simplicate
SysClaw
The Admin app in Teams, Outlook and Microsoft365.com
Titus Classification
User Settings
Veeam Backup for M365
Veeam Microsoft 365 Backup
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.