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	Since September 2026
Cloud cost management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	26 of 76	22%	9	under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 45%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	18 of 80	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 37%	▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Cloud-native application protection	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	47 of 70	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 37%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
IT asset management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	49 of 82	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Freshservice at 31%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
IT financial management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	105 of 159	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9%

Movement

Since September 2026, Cloudaware held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · FinOps · by segment

Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 66 → 34 of 78

Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 18 → 27 of 70

Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 5% → 2%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

2%from 5% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 7 of 71, unchanged

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
CSPM	2%	0%	▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 7 → 18 of 80
FinOps	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 18 → 26 of 76
CNAPP	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 47 of 70, unchanged
ITAM	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 33 → 49 of 82
IT financial mgmt	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 105 of 159, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Cloudaware 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	2	0	0	2
Grok 4.20	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	2	1	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	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

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative15 labelsNone

Budget-constrained10 labels1

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative7 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative40 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“Cloudaware explicitly frames its strength around governance, exemptions, routing, remediation proof, and audit evidence.” Perplexity Sonar · CSPM · comparative prompt · alternative

“one of the few CSPM vendors with upfront costs rather than "call us" enterprise pricing” Kimi K2 · CSPM · budget prompt · alternative

“if your main pain point is governance, ownership, exemptions, and audit evidence” Perplexity Sonar · CSPM · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Try Cloudaware's free tier if you're starting out... Great for early-stage FinOps” Claude Haiku 4.5 · FinOps · budget 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.

“High cost for small organizations – Pricing can be prohibitive for small businesses or startups” GLM 4.7 FlashX · FinOps · negative prompt · soft negative

“"Integration friction" in complex environments” MiniMax M2.5 · FinOps · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cloudaware, over the 40 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.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

IBM Apptio Cloudability19 of 406Not among the top eight

CloudZero17 of 402Not among the top eight

Flexera One16 of 403Not among the top eight

AWS Cost Explorer14 of 404Not among the top eight

Microsoft Cost Management13 of 401Not among the top eight

Vantage12 of 404Not among the top eight

Kubecost12 of 400Not among the top eight

CAST AI10 of 400Not among the top eight

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth10 of 400Not among the top eight

nOps9 of 401Not 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 Cloudaware. 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 40 of the 40 answers that named Cloudaware and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudaware.comYour site38

g2.com21

cloudzero.com20

amnic.com17

learn.g2.com16

peerspot.com15

nops.io12

openmetal.io10

finout.io9

pointfive.co7

127 of the 165 domain citations in answers naming Cloudaware came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools21

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

learn.g2.com/best-cloud-cost-management-software15

amnic.com/blogs/cloud-cost-management-tools11

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-optimization-tools11

openmetal.io/resources/blog/which-cloud-cost-management-tool-is-best-for-your-company10

peerspot.com/categories/cloud-cost-management10

nops.io/blog/cloud-cost-management-software-tools9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

cloudaware.com ranks 8 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Cloudaware takes 0% of first choices and Vantage takes 45%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “cloud cost management platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “cloud cost management platforms”

Searches for its name, Google: 140 a month (“cloudaware”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 1 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 6,732 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,336 · 182 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 553
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

64 ads · 49 text, 13 image, 2 video · 48 shown in the last 30 days

First shown March 2025, as CloudAware, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 62 in the year, 2 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 26 of 76 in finops

Segment leader

45%

Vantage

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 40 answers
Its own site cited: in 40 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 cloudaware.com

898

subdomains included

Content

265

counted in the table below

Documentation

585

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	205	0	2020-01-27	ITAM, CSPM
Report or ebook	19	undated
Comparison	18	undated		ITSM
Case study	11	undated
Glossary or explainer	7	undated
News or press	4	undated
Template or tool	1	undated

Most recent

2020-01-27How to improve incident routing with cloudaware cmdb and pagerduty blog
2020-01-275 top cloud security compliance best practices blog
2020-01-275 must have tools that make life in the multi cloud environment not insane blog
2020-01-27Why cloudaware cmdb for large google cloud platform deployments blog
2020-01-27What you need to know about cis benchmarks for aws azure and gcp blog
2020-01-27Cloudaware upgrades conflux module with enhanced aws cloudtrail support blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page cloudaware.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. Read September 29, 2026.

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.

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Follow Cloudaware

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

Cloudaware is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Complete Multi-Cloud Management Platform
cloudaware.com
For: mature CCoE
cloudaware.com
Price stated: Core $67 / mo; Enterprise $200 / mo cloudaware.com/pricing
Starting price: $67 / mo cloudaware.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: 30-day free trial cloudaware.com
Integrations claimed: 63 cloudaware.com
Customers named: Coca-ColaNASAServiceChannelCaterpillar Inc.Boeing
Not stated on the pages read: Certifications, hosting

What Cloudaware's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: cloudaware.com, cloudaware.com/pricing, cloudaware.com/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cloudaware by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cloudaware 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 Cloudaware, 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.