Every category where a model named Avolution ABACUS 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	0%	18 of 113	0%	12	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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

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

Direct6 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative15 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative38 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“Best for: Large organizations (government/large enterprise) with legacy infrastructure and specific IT governance needs.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · EA tools · comparative prompt · alternative

“Safer bets (from positive contrasts): Tools like Avolution ABACUS, Bizzdesign, or ServiceNow EA” Grok 4.1 Fast · EA tools · negative prompt · alternative

“Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect or Avolution ABACUS would be excellent alternatives” Kimi K2 · EA tools · direct prompt · alternative

“Choose Avolution ABACUS if you need to run complex cost-benefit simulations” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EA tools · comparative prompt · alternative

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 Avolution ABACUS, over the 38 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Avolution ABACUS was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ardoq33 of 388Not among the top eight

SAP LeanIX28 of 3811Not among the top eight

Bizzdesign Horizzon24 of 382Not among the top eight

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect19 of 384Not among the top eight

OrbusInfinity15 of 380Not among the top eight

MEGA HOPEX14 of 380Not among the top eight

Archi11 of 384Not among the top eight

LeanIX8 of 382Not among the top eight

Bizzdesign Enterprise Studio8 of 380Not among the top eight

ServiceNow Enterprise Architecture8 of 380Not 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 Avolution ABACUS. 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 34 of the 38 answers that named Avolution ABACUS and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

erstudio.com22

ardoq.com21

superblocks.com21

research.oz.spotlightar.com19

catio.tech17

ciopages.com17

boardmix.com16

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com15

archiq.app14

capstera.com14

176 of the 176 domain citations in answers naming Avolution ABACUS came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

erstudio.com/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools22

superblocks.com/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools21

catio.tech/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools17

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/enterprise-architecture-tool17

research.oz.spotlightar.com/reports/magic-quadrant-enterprise-architecture-tools-2024/lead17

boardmix.com/articles/top-10-enterprise-architecture-tools15

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tools/10-best-enterprise-arch/13170569415

capstera.com/knowledge-hub/articles/enterprise-architecture-tools-guide14

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

avolutionsoftware.com ranks 4 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Avolution ABACUS takes 0% 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: not counted (“avolution abacus”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 1,117 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 468 · 32 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,119
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 edition

Share of first choices

rank 18 of 113 in EA tools

Segment leader

25%

SAP LeanIX

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 38 answers
Its own site cited: in 34 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 avolutionsoftware.com

509

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

17 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Conference or event	24	0	2026-01-27
Webinar or virtual event	21	0	2026-02-04
Case study	19	0	2025-11-21
Blog	17	4	2026-09-23	EA tools
Comparison	5	3	2026-09-15
Report or ebook	4	0	2026-05-29
Template or tool	3	0	2026-06-11
Glossary or explainer	1	0	2026-02-11
News or press	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-23Speak to an ea expert blog
2026-09-15Avolution terms and conditions blog
2026-09-15Abacus mega bizzdesign alternative comparison
2026-09-08Lp legacy ea alternative comparison
2026-08-14Https www avolutionsoftware com solutions ai governance blog
2026-08-12Book meeting gartner aibs 2026 blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page avolutionsoftware.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 October 5, 2026.

Follow Avolution ABACUS

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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The company

Avolution ABACUS is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Leading Enterprise Architecture Platform
avolutionsoftware.com
For: enterprise architects in organizations across all major industry segments
avolutionsoftware.com
Price stated: Request Pricing; Contact Sales; Contact our team for pricing avolutionsoftware.com/abacus/pricing
Certifications: Cyber EssentialsISO/IEC 27001:2022
Customers named: AmeritasArupUniversity of EdinburghCoventry Building SocietyHMRCInformaticaBantrabMedImpact
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, hosting

What Avolution ABACUS's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: avolutionsoftware.com, avolutionsoftware.com/abacus/pricing, trust.avolutionsoftware.com, avolutionsoftware.com/features, avolutionsoftware.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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

where Avolution ABACUS 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 Avolution ABACUS, 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.