Every category where a model named Cloudaware 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 security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	2%	7 of 53	9%	11	accepted challenger
Cloud cost management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	22 of 79	20%	10	accepted challenger
IT asset management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	33 of 61	25%	4	under 10 labels · led by Snipe-IT at 24%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	3	0	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	1	1	4
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	3	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	4	0	5
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	0	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	1	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

Direct17 labels1

Paraphrase11 labels1

Comparative17 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labels1

Scale-constrained5 labelsNone

Negative13 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative69 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“Wiz and Cloudaware are the top CSPM tools” Mistral Small · CSPM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Cloudaware is useful when cloud posture needs CMDB context, ownership, inventory, compliance reporting, and operational evidence.” Llama 4 Maverick · CSPM · comparative prompt · alternative

“You need granular asset-to-cost mapping and want cost alerts and actions to flow directly into your operational workflows.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · FinOps · comparative prompt · alternative

“a strong fit if your main pain is governance, ownership, exemptions, remediation proof, and audit evidence” Perplexity Sonar · CSPM · direct 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.

“third-party platforms like Snyk or Cloudaware may be worth the investment. However, for most small businesses... native tools and open-source solutions is the most cost-effective strategy.” Mistral Small · CSPM · budget prompt · soft negative

“Overwhelming UI/navigation, integration friction in complex environments, and high pricing for startups/small teams” Grok 4.1 Fast · FinOps · negative prompt · soft negative

“Several tools, including Cloudaware and CloudHealth (now VMware Aria Cost), have been criticized for being expensive” MiniMax M2.5 · FinOps · negative prompt · soft negative

“Caution: Cloudaware” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ITAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cloudaware, over the 69 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudaware was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Wiz23 of 6910Not in the top three

Flexera One22 of 693Not in the top three

CloudZero19 of 691Not in the top three

Prisma Cloud18 of 692Not in the top three

Vantage17 of 695Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender for Cloud17 of 693Not in the top three

IBM Apptio Cloudability16 of 695Not in the top three

ServiceNow IT Asset Management14 of 699Not in the top three

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth13 of 690Not in the top three

Prowler12 of 697Not 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 Cloudaware. 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 69 of the 69 answers that named Cloudaware and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudaware.comYour site69

gartner.com35

cyberpress.org23

cloudzero.com19

cybersecuritynews.com19

expertinsights.com17

g2.com17

gbhackers.com15

complyjet.com13

learn.g2.com13

171 of the 240 domain citations in answers naming Cloudaware came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudaware.com/blog/top-cloud-security-posture-management-vendors25

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools22

cyberpress.org/cspm-tools-by-business-size-222

cybersecuritynews.com/best-cspm-tools17

cloudzero.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools16

gartner.com/reviews/market/cloud-financial-management-tools16

cloudaware.com/blog/asset-management-tools13

complyjet.com/blog/best-cspm-tools13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Cloudaware

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cloudaware; a claim can dispute any of them.

CloudAware 1

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Claim this page

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 Cloudaware'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 Cloudaware, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at cloudaware.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.