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Archi

55Judge labels
19First choices
4Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
20% in EA tools for small business buyers
Rank 4 of 113 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 14 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Archi →
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In ea tools · 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 Archi 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Enterprise architecture toolsIT operations and endpoint11%4 of 1130%14accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Archi yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Archi across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.511002
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash10102
Perplexity Sonar01001
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash10102
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K210001
GLM 4.7 FlashX10001
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna01001
Muse Glimmer 30B10001

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
Direct9 labels3
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative9 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained23 labels16
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative8 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative55 labels in all, every segment counted; 19 of the 26 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.

“For the most budget-conscious approach, Archi is an excellent starting point due to its simplicity, active community, and zero cost.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · EA tools · budget prompt · first choice
“If your budget is truly limited, Archi (the free, open‑source ArchiMate editor) is still the best starting point for most companies.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · EA tools · budget prompt · first choice
“If you need absolutely no cost and can work desktop-based, Archi is the standard starting point.” Muse Glimmer 30B · EA tools · budget prompt · first choice
“If budget is extremely tight: Start with Archi — it's free, standards-compliant” Kimi K2 · EA tools · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Archi, over the 55 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Archi was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Sparx Enterprise Architect15 of 553Not among the top eight
Lucidchart14 of 550Not among the top eight
Avolution ABACUS11 of 550Not among the top eight
MEGA HOPEX11 of 550Not among the top eight
UrbaHive9 of 551Not among the top eight
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 Archi. 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 51 of the 55 answers that named Archi and are not a share of its labels.

Search and answers

Where Archi stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
5,400 a month (“archi”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
24,245 a month
Its own site
No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
11%
rank 4 of 113 in EA tools
Segment leader
25%
SAP LeanIX
First choices
19 across its categories
Named in
55 answers
Its own site cited
No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

Follow Archi

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.

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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 Archi'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 Archi, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Archi by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

  • where Archi 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 Archi, 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.

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at the vendor's own domain is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.