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AWS Budgets

3Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

3 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. AWS Budgets was named 1 time in FinOps, where Vantage led with 54%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business29 of 78

under the label threshold

Mid-market13 of 79

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In finops · 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 AWS Budgets 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
Cloud cost management	Cloud and infrastructure	2%	13 of 79	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 54%

Movement

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

By model

How each model treated AWS Budgets across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained1 label1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 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.

“If you're mostly on AWS: start with AWS Budgets + AWS Cost Management. Budget monitoring is free” GPT-5.4 mini · FinOps · 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 AWS Budgets, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and AWS Budgets was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AWS Cost Explorer2 of 32Not in the top three

CAST AI2 of 30Not in the top three

Google Cloud Cost Management2 of 30Not in the top three

IBM Apptio Cloudability2 of 30Not in the top three

Vantage2 of 30Not in the top three

AWS Billing and Cost Management1 of 30Not in the top three

Archera1 of 30Not in the top three

Azure Advisor1 of 30Not in the top three

CLOUD TOGGLE1 of 30Not in the top three

CloudZero1 of 30Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 AWS Budgets. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 3 of the 3 answers that named AWS Budgets and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudzero.com2

amnic.com1

aws.amazon.com1

bminfotrade.com1

cast.ai1

cloud.google.com1

cloudaware.com1

cloudcapital.co1

cloudtoggle.com1

emma.ms1

No domain is on file for AWS Budgets, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

cloudzero.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools2

amnic.com/blogs/cloud-cost-management-tools1

amnic.com/blogs/multi-cloud-cost-management-platform1

aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-budgets/pricing1

bminfotrade.com/blog/cloud-computing/top-5-hidden-cloud-costs1

cast.ai/blog/top-6-cloud-cost-management-tools1

cloud.google.com/cost-management1

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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