Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 9 → 5 of 42
4 categories · RankedAnsible
135Judge labels
4First choices
35Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in IaC for mid-market buyers
Rank 3 of 59 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 24% of its 38 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Ansible →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business7 of 47
0%49 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market3 of 59
4%38 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise15 of 69
0%33 labels
criticized challenger
In iac · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Ansible for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure as code | Cloud and infrastructure | 4% | 3 of 59 | 24% | 38 | accepted challenger | ▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Network monitoring and management | Network and edge | 0% | 16 of 78 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Auvik at 26% | |
| Patch management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 63 of 85 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus at 29% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Workflow orchestration | Data platform | 0% | 46 of 79 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Prefect at 21% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Ansible held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · IaC · by segment
Mid-market▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 6 → 3 of 51
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 12 → 14 of 57
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IaC | 0% | 5% | ▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 3 of 59 |
| Network monitoring | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 16 of 78, unchanged |
| Patching | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 61 → 63 of 85 |
| Orchestration | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 46 of 79, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Ansible across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Ansible across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct18 labelsNone
Paraphrase16 labels2
Comparative36 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained20 labels2
Scale-constrained12 labelsNone
Negative33 labels6not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative135 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 11 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If you value simplicity and ease of hiring: Avoid Chef/Puppet; choose Ansible or Terraform.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · first choice
“the best default choice is usually Ansible or Terraform/OpenTofu” Perplexity Sonar · IaC · budget prompt · first choice
“is OpenTofu or Ansible, as they are suitable for budget-conscious teams” Llama 4 Maverick · IaC · budget prompt · first choice
“✅ Configuration management: Ansible” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“If someone suggests using Ansible as your primary IaC tool for cloud provisioning, that's a mistake” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IaC · direct prompt · hard negative
“Use Ansible/Chef/Puppet carefully when the job is configuration management rather than infrastructure provisioning” Perplexity Sonar · IaC · negative prompt · soft negative
“Choose Ansible for configuration and operational automation rather than infrastructure provisioning.” Perplexity Sonar · IaC · comparative prompt · soft negative
“it is best used for post-provisioning configuration, not for managing cloud-native infrastructure state” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Ansible, over the 135 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ansible was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Ansible, over the 135 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ansible was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Ansible. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 121 of the 135 answers that named Ansible and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pulumi.com80
guideflow.com57
spacelift.io49
checkthat.ai43
gartsolutions.com35
openxcell.com34
cortex.io33
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com28
facets.cloud27
sentinelone.com27
413 of the 413 domain citations in answers naming Ansible came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
ansible.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Ansible takes 4% of first choices and Terraform takes 57%.ShowHide
Search and answers
ansible.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Ansible takes 4% of first choices and Terraform takes 57%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “infrastructure-as-code tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “infrastructure-as-code tools”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 22,200 a month (“ansible”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3,168 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 50,787 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 6,200 · 1,369 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 20,541
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 3 of 59 in iac
Segment leader
57%
Terraform
- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 135 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 121 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on ansible.com
10,001
subdomains included
Content
1
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Events in person
Last twelve months
- August 31, 2026 to September 3, 2026Red Hat at LEAP 2026RECC Malham, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · exhibited
- May 14, 2026 to May 17, 2026Red Hat at PyCon 2026Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach · exhibited
- May 11, 2026 to May 13, 2026SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference OrlandoOrange County Convention Center, Orlando · sponsored
- March 19, 2026 to March 21, 2026SAP Sapphire & ASUG Annual Conference MadridIFEMA Madrid, Madrid · sponsored
- March 17, 2026 to March 19, 2026SAPinsider Las Vegas 2026Bellagio, Las Vegas · sponsored
- November 5, 2025Red Hat Summit: Connect 2025 Toronto, ONFairmont Royal York, Toronto, Canada · took part
As the event pages on ansible.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page ansible.com 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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Ansible
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Ansible; a claim can dispute any of them.
Ansible (Red Hat) 2Ansible (Open Source + Red Hat AAP) 1Ansible (by Red Hat) 1NetBox + Ansible 1Red Hat Ansible 1
Follow Ansible
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Ansible is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Ansible is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- A gathering space to build automation skills and success
- For
- Ansible users, customers, partners, and vendors
- Price stated
- It is free to use ansible.com
- Free plan or trial
- It is free to use ansible.com
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Ansible's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: ansible.com. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Ansible's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Ansible, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Ansible by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Ansible is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Ansible, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Ansible is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Ansible is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideAnsible is among the products AI models recommend first in Infrastructure as code this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.