Every category where a model named Cisco ThousandEyes 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
Network monitoring and management	Network and edge	0%	22 of 78	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Auvik at 26%
Website and synthetic monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	21 of 67	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by UptimeRobot at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cisco ThousandEyes 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 Cisco ThousandEyes 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	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase13 labelsNone

Comparative12 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 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.

“Best for: Highly distributed companies heavily reliant on SaaS and public cloud networks.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Network monitoring · comparative prompt · alternative

“Cisco ThousandEyes is the best for network and internet path visibility” Muse Glimmer 30B · Uptime monitoring · paraphrase 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 Cisco ThousandEyes, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cisco ThousandEyes was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Dynatrace17 of 307Not among the top eight

LogicMonitor14 of 304Not among the top eight

Kentik14 of 303Not among the top eight

Datadog Synthetic Monitoring12 of 304Not among the top eight

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor11 of 303Not among the top eight

Datadog Network Monitoring11 of 300Not among the top eight

Paessler PRTG Network Monitor11 of 300Not among the top eight

Catchpoint9 of 301Not among the top eight

New Relic Synthetics8 of 301Not among the top eight

Auvik8 of 300Not 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 Cisco ThousandEyes. 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 28 of the 30 answers that named Cisco ThousandEyes and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

kentik.com19

motadata.com13

gartner.com10

logicmonitor.com10

contentsquare.com9

comparitech.com8

netdata.cloud7

newrelic.com7

worldmetrics.org7

zendikt.com7

Ninety-seven of the ninety-seven domain citations in answers naming Cisco ThousandEyes came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

kentik.com/kentipedia/best-network-monitoring-tools-202613

contentsquare.com/guides/digital-experience-monitoring/tools8

motadata.com/blog/top-digital-experience-monitoring-tools8

netdata.cloud/resources/best-network-monitoring-tools7

newrelic.com/blog/observability/digital-experience-monitoring-tools7

zendikt.com/top-10-synthetic-monitoring-software7

logicmonitor.com/blog/best-network-monitoring-tools6

virtana.com/blog/best-network-monitoring-tools6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Cisco ThousandEyes stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 1,000 a month (“cisco thousandeyes”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 72 a month
Its own site: It sits on Cisco's site (cisco.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 22 of 78 in network monitoring

Segment leader

26%

Auvik

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 30 answers
Its own site cited: in 28 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.

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The company

Cisco is the company behind Cisco ThousandEyes.

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On record

Company records

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where Cisco ThousandEyes 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 Cisco ThousandEyes, 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;
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