| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDI and IP address management | Network and edge | 6% | 6 of 115 | 27% | 48 | criticized challenger | |
| Managed DNS | Network and edge | 0% | 29 of 78 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare DNS at 84% |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Strong candidates to shortlist would be BlueCat, Men & Mice, EfficientIP, and DNSBOX” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDI and IPAM · scale prompt · first choice
“The leading DDI platforms are generally Infoblox- and BlueCat-based offerings” Perplexity Sonar · DDI and IPAM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Choose BlueCat for flexibility and DevOps automation workflows.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DDI and IPAM · comparative prompt · first choice
“I'd suggest starting with BlueCat Integrity or SolarWinds” MiniMax M2.5 · DDI and IPAM · direct prompt · first choice
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 enterprise platforms like Infoblox, BlueCat, and EfficientIP SOLIDserver” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDI and IPAM · budget prompt · hard negative
“BlueCat characterizes these as inadequate for modern enterprise environments because they do not scale well across multi-cloud, SD-WAN, SDDC, and IoT complexity.” Perplexity Sonar · DDI and IPAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“BlueCat is a highly capable enterprise competitor, but it has specific operational overhead and cost dynamics to keep in mind.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDI and IPAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“their proprietary hardware/virtual appliances and licensing models can easily exceed tens of thousands of dollars annually” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDI and IPAM · budget prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 147 of the 158 answers that named BlueCat Integrity and are not a share of its labels.
502 of the 573 domain citations in answers naming BlueCat Integrity came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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.
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 782 | 42 | 2026-10-02 | SD-WAN, DDI and IPAM | |
| News or press | 117 | 1 | 2026-08-03 | Infra monitoring, DDI and IPAM | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 29 | 1 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 29 | 0 | 2025-03-05 | Firewalls | |
| Case study | 18 | 0 | 2025-06-01 | ||
| Conference or event | 17 | 7 | 2026-11-09 | ||
| Comparison | 14 | 1 | 2026-08-04 | ||
| Report or ebook | 13 | 0 | 2026-04-10 | ||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 1 | 2026-07-09 |
As the event pages on bluecatnetworks.com state them, read October 5, 2026.
Every page bluecatnetworks.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.
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.
What BlueCat Integrity's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: bluecatnetworks.com, trust.bluecatnetworks.com, bluecatnetworks.com/products. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 BlueCat Integrity'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 BlueCat Integrity, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for BlueCat Integrity by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows: