Every category where a model named Ardoq 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
Enterprise architecture tools	IT operations and endpoint	18%	2 of 113	15%	47	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Ardoq 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 Ardoq across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	1	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	3	0	2	6
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	2	2	6
Mistral Small	0	1	2	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	0	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	0	0	3
Kimi K2	3	1	0	1	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	0	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	3	0	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	1	0	1	4

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

Direct30 labels7

Paraphrase12 labels2

Comparative35 labels9not counted in share

Budget-constrained19 labels5

Scale-constrained24 labels13

Negative25 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative145 labels in all, every segment counted; 27 of the 37 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.

“Dynamic visualization & linking complex relationships. Very user-friendly for non-architects. | Great for "living repository" approach.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · EA tools · scale prompt · first choice

“Ardoq is the most cited "modern" option for teams that want browser-based real-time collaboration and automated dependency mapping.” Muse Glimmer 30B · EA tools · direct prompt · first choice

“LeanIX and Ardoq are usually the strongest fits because they prioritize portfolio views, impact analysis, and change planning” Perplexity Sonar · EA tools · comparative prompt · first choice

“Start with Ardoq if you have ~50–200 applications and want professional APM capabilities without enterprise bloat.” Kimi K2 · EA tools · paraphrase 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.

“Avoid high-end tools like LeanIX, Bizzdesign, or Ardoq” Grok 4.1 Fast · EA tools · budget prompt · hard negative

“High Risk: Pricing/Packaging Changes ... Ardoq if you have a very large application portfolio (>1,000 apps) and budget sensitivity.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · EA tools · negative prompt · soft negative

“Ardoq is an example often flagged for this: ... exclusively a cloud-hosted SaaS platform — there is no on-premises deployment option” Muse Glimmer 30B · EA tools · negative prompt · soft negative

“frequently cost upwards of $10,000 to $50,000+ per year, placing them far out of reach for companies with limited budgets” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EA tools · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Ardoq, over the 145 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Ardoq was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

SAP LeanIX95 of 14529Compare →

Bizzdesign Horizzon78 of 1453Compare →

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect57 of 14514Compare →

LeanIX42 of 1458Compare →

MEGA HOPEX38 of 1451Not among the top eight

OrbusInfinity34 of 1450Not among the top eight

Sparx Enterprise Architect33 of 1453Not among the top eight

Avolution ABACUS33 of 1450Not among the top eight

Archi29 of 1458Compare →

ServiceNow Enterprise Architecture21 of 1450Not 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 Ardoq. 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 139 of the 145 answers that named Ardoq and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

superblocks.com80

ardoq.comYour site76

erstudio.com75

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com60

leanix.net60

research.oz.spotlightar.com52

catio.tech48

gartner.com48

thectoclub.com47

ciopages.com46

516 of the 592 domain citations in answers naming Ardoq came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

superblocks.com/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools80

erstudio.com/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools75

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tools/10-best-enterprise-arch/13170569460

catio.tech/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools48

research.oz.spotlightar.com/reports/magic-quadrant-enterprise-architecture-tools-2024/lead47

thectoclub.com/tools/best-enterprise-architecture-software47

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/enterprise-architecture-tool46

archiq.app/enterprise-architecture-tools40

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

ardoq.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Ardoq takes 18% of first choices and SAP LeanIX takes 25%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “enterprise architecture tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “enterprise architecture tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 1,300 a month (“ardoq”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 21 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 10,546 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,645 · 273 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 2,137
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 88 text, 26 image, 6 video · 56 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2022, as Ardoq AS, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 54 in the year, 66 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

18%

rank 2 of 113 in EA tools

Segment leader

25%

SAP LeanIX

First choices: 27 across its categories
Named in: 145 answers
Its own site cited: in 139 of the answers that named it

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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on ardoq.com

1,139

subdomains included

Content

489

counted in the table below

Documentation

452

Product · Integration

30 · 9

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	306	16	2026-09-24
Case study	58	2	2026-09-14
Webinar or virtual event	51	undated
News or press	44	1	2026-08-26
Conference or event	15	0	2021-08-24
Comparison	9	1	2026-08-17
Glossary or explainer	4	0	2024-01-16
Template or tool	2	undated

Most recent

2026-09-248 new architecture agents blog
2026-09-23Enterprise ai trust inflection point blog
2026-09-22Ardoq ai assistant upgrades blog
2026-09-18Operational resilience dora nist2 blog
2026-09-15Ardoq ai assistant blog
2026-09-14Liantis executive insight case study

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page ardoq.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.

Follow Ardoq

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

Ardoq is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Enterprise Architecture Software
ardoq.com
For: Enterprise Architects
ardoq.com
Price stated: Unlimited users. Simple, predictable app-based pricing. ardoq.com/plans
Free plan or trial: We do not offer a generic free trial, but we frequently offer guided pilots. ardoq.com/plans
Certifications: Gartner® Leader for the fifth consecutive year in the 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Architecture ToolsCertification ProgramArdoq Affinity Partner Certification Program
Customers named: Serta SimmonsAsdaSTIHLTenneco7 ElevenSmartestEnergyPremier TechJack in the Box
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, hosting

What Ardoq's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: ardoq.com, ardoq.com/plans, ardoq.com/platform-overview, ardoq.com/customers, ardoq.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 Ardoq'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 Ardoq, 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 Ardoq by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Ardoq 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 Ardoq, 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 Ardoq is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Ardoq is among the products AI models recommend first in Enterprise architecture tools 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

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Enterprise architecture tools standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Enterprise architecture tools standing, where the claim can be checked.

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.