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Azure · 1 category · Named, not ranked

Azure OpenAI Service

4Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

4 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. Azure OpenAI Service was named 1 time in LLM gateways, where LiteLLM led with 38%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market24 of 63

under the label threshold

Enterprise33 of 62

under the label threshold

In llm gateways · 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 Azure OpenAI Service 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
LLM gateways and observability	Data platform	0%	24 of 63	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by LiteLLM at 38%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
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	1	1
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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Azure OpenAI Service, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI (major cloud providers)” Kimi K2 · LLM gateways · negative 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 Azure OpenAI Service, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure OpenAI Service was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Amazon Bedrock2 of 40Not in the top three

Akkio1 of 41Not in the top three

Confident AI1 of 41Not in the top three

Obviously AI1 of 41Not in the top three

Pinecone1 of 41Not in the top three

Amazon SageMaker1 of 40Not in the top three

Anthropic1 of 40Not in the top three

Arize AX1 of 40Not in the top three

Arize Phoenix1 of 40Not in the top three

Azure AI Search1 of 40Not 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 Azure OpenAI Service. 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 4 answers that named Azure OpenAI Service and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

arxiv.org1

atlan.com1

braintrust.dev1

confident-ai.com1

costbench.com1

cribl.io1

cybernews.com1

cybersecuritynews.com1

edpb.europa.eu1

fast.io1

Ten of the ten domain citations in answers naming Azure OpenAI Service came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

arxiv.org/html/2505.01976v11

arxiv.org/html/2508.16765v11

atlan.com/know/top-vector-databases-enterprise-ai1

braintrust.dev/articles/best-llm-gateways-observability-20261

confident-ai.com/knowledge-base/compare/10-llm-observability-tools-to-evaluate-and-monitor1

confident-ai.com/knowledge-base/compare/best-enterprise-llm-observability-tools1

costbench.com/best/vector-databases-for-enterprise1

cribl.io/resources/comparison-guides/top-11-ai-observability-platforms1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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