Every category where a model named BlueCat Micetro 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
DDI and IP address management	Network and edge	15%	1 of 115	0%	11	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for BlueCat Micetro 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 BlueCat Micetro 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	2	1	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	2

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

Direct11 labels6

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative8 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained5 labels2

Scale-constrained2 labels1

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 10 of the 13 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.

“Choose BlueCat Micetro if you already use Windows Active Directory ... It is the most robust, low-risk way to get commercial-grade DDI on a budget.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDI and IPAM · budget prompt · first choice

“*Top Choice:* BlueCat Micetro (formerly Men & Mice) is the industry gold standard for this.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDI and IPAM · scale prompt · first choice

“Mid-Market (500–2,000 devices): Micetro is excellent for its flexibility” Muse Glimmer 30B · DDI and IPAM · direct prompt · first choice

“For most mid-market B2B companies, BlueCat Micetro is the best choice.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDI and IPAM · direct 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 BlueCat Micetro, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BlueCat Micetro was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

EfficientIP SOLIDserver18 of 290Compare →

BlueCat Integrity12 of 292Compare →

Infoblox Universal DDI10 of 292Not among the top eight

SolarWinds IP Address Manager10 of 291Compare →

Infoblox8 of 291Not among the top eight

phpIPAM7 of 291Compare →

NetBox7 of 290Compare →

ManageEngine DDI Central5 of 291Not among the top eight

Infoblox NIOS4 of 291Not among the top eight

ManageEngine OpUtils4 of 290Compare →

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 BlueCat Micetro. 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 29 of the 29 answers that named BlueCat Micetro and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bluecatnetworks.comYour site25

infoblox.com16

efficientip.com14

sourceforge.net13

devopsschool.com10

peerspot.com10

blog.domotz.com8

g2.com8

gartner.com8

itechguides.com8

Ninety-five of the 120 domain citations in answers naming BlueCat Micetro came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison9

blog.domotz.com/all/ipam-solutions8

sourceforge.net/software/ddi-management/for-small-business8

cotocus.com/blog/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison7

infoblox.com/products/nios7

bluecatnetworks.com/products/integrity6

peerspot.com/categories/ddi6

controld.com/blog/top-infoblox-alternatives5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where BlueCat Micetro stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “ddi platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “ddi platforms”

Searches for its name, Google: 40 a month (“bluecat micetro”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 49,586 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 3,087 · 166 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 2,517
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

3 ads · 3 text · 2 shown in the last 30 days

First shown June 2025, as BlueCat Networks Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 2 in the year, 1 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

15%

rank 1 of 115 in DDI and IPAM

First choices

across its categories

Named in: 29 answers
Its own site cited: in 29 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 bluecatnetworks.com

3,305

subdomains included

Content

1,022

counted in the table below

Documentation

596

Product · Integration

68 · 23

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	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

Most recent

2026-11-09Cisco live melbourne 2026 conference or event
2026-10-28Onug ai networking summit new york 2026 conference or event
2026-10-27It sa nuremberg stand 6 343 conference or event
2026-10-02Get answers from the livenx data you already have with liveassist blog
2026-10-01Livewire gen3 device offerings blog
2026-10-01Infotech ignite washington d c 2026 conference or event

Events in person

Upcoming

October 28, 2026 to October 29, 2026ONUG AI Networking Summit New YorkMidtown Manhattan (Penn District), New York, US · hybrid · sponsors

Last twelve months

September 22, 2026 to September 23, 2026Infotech LIVE BarcelonaGrand Hyatt Barcelona, Barcelona, ES · exhibited

As the event pages on bluecatnetworks.com state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

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.

Follow BlueCat Micetro

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

BlueCat Micetro is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: an easy-to-deploy, intuitive DDI orchestration platform that centralizes network management
bluecatnetworks.com
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What BlueCat Micetro's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: bluecatnetworks.com, trust.bluecatnetworks.com, bluecatnetworks.com/products. 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 BlueCat Micetro'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 Micetro, 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 BlueCat Micetro by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where BlueCat Micetro 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 BlueCat Micetro, 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 BlueCat Micetro 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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AI models recommend BlueCat Micetro first in DDI and IP address management 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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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/ddi-and-ipam/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/bluecat-micetro--ddi-and-ipam-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in DDI and IP address management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the DDI and IP address management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/ddi-and-ipam/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/bluecat-micetro--ddi-and-ipam-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in DDI and IP address management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the DDI and IP address management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/ddi-and-ipam/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/bluecat-micetro--ddi-and-ipam-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in DDI and IP address management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the DDI and IP address management 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.