Every category where a model named Economize 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 cost management	Cloud and infrastructure	6%	3 of 79	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 54%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct8 labels1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 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.

“one that offers a free or low-cost tier, such as Economize, Vantage, or CloudZero” Llama 4 Maverick · FinOps · budget prompt · first choice

“CloudZero and Economize are the top choices” Mistral Small · FinOps · direct prompt · first choice

“Economize is arguably the best value on the market” GLM 4.7 FlashX · FinOps · budget prompt · first choice

“Best value entry point - Free up to ~$100K/month cloud spend; competitively priced for mid-market” DeepSeek V4 Flash · FinOps · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Economize, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Economize was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Vantage11 of 127Not in the top three

CloudZero9 of 120Not in the top three

AWS Cost Explorer6 of 121Not in the top three

Microsoft Cost Management6 of 121Not in the top three

CAST AI5 of 120Not in the top three

Infracost4 of 120Not in the top three

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth4 of 120Not in the top three

OpenCost3 of 120Not in the top three

nOps3 of 120Not in the top three

Google Cloud Billing2 of 120Not 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 Economize. 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 12 of the 12 answers that named Economize and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudzero.com12

learn.g2.com9

openmetal.io9

cloudaware.com7

gartner.com6

nops.io6

spendark.com6

amnic.com5

usage.ai5

economize.cloudYour site4

Sixty-five of the sixty-nine domain citations in answers naming Economize came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudzero.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools12

learn.g2.com/best-cloud-cost-management-software9

openmetal.io/resources/blog/which-cloud-cost-management-tool-is-best-for-your-company9

gartner.com/reviews/market/cloud-financial-management-tools6

spendark.com/blog/cloud-cost-tools-small-business6

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools5

nops.io/blog/cloud-cost-management-software-tools5

amnic.com/blogs/cloud-cost-management-tools4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Economize

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

Economize Enterprise 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 Economize'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 Economize, 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 economize.cloud 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.