2 categories · RankedFaddom
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsegmentation | Network and edge | 5% | 4 of 94 | 9% | 11 | accepted challenger | |
| Data center infrastructure management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 58 of 103 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Sunbird DCIM at 27% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Faddom across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“The best microsegmentation solution for a company with a limited budget is Faddom, which is a budget-friendly dependency mapping tool.” Llama 4 Maverick · Microsegmentation · budget prompt · first choice
“For a company with limited budget, I'd recommend starting with Faddom” MiniMax M2.5 · Microsegmentation · budget prompt · first choice
“start with Enclave (free) or Faddom (low-cost)” Mistral Small · Microsegmentation · budget prompt · first choice
“Faddom + a basic enforcement tool (e.g., a lightweight firewall policy) | Agentless discovery reduces overhead; low cost; simple to start.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Microsegmentation · 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.
“Mapping only, not full enforcement” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Microsegmentation · direct prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Faddom, over the 39 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Faddom was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 39 of the 39 answers that named Faddom and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
196 of the 196 domain citations in answers naming Faddom came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
faddom.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Faddom takes 5% of first choices and ColorTokens Xshield takes 25%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 390 a month (“faddom”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 8 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 5,183 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,653 · 51 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,392
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 20 clicks and $1,015 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 7 across its categories
- Named in
- 39 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 39 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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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 214 | 8 | 2026-09-24 | IT documentation, Microsegmentation | |
| Comparison | 51 | 1 | 2026-09-28 | ITSM, ITAM | |
| Report or ebook | 31 | 2 | 2026-08-20 | ITSM, Microsegmentation | |
| Case study | 28 | 12 | 2026-09-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 13 | 0 | 2025-12-27 | Microsegmentation | |
| Template or tool | 9 | 1 | 2026-07-18 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 8 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Nagios alternatives comparison
- 2026-09-24Enterprise network monitoring tools blog
- 2026-09-22Best tools for mapping application dependencies in hybrid environments blog
- 2026-09-14Nutanix flow 5 key features use cases and limitations blog
- 2026-09-01Ornge Customer Story.pdf case study
- 2026-09-01Coreso Customer Story.pdf case study
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page faddom.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 Faddom
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
Faddom is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Deep, real-time IT visibility for the AI era.
- For
- IT and security teams managing hybrid environments
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial faddom.com
- Customers named
- Redpath miningSuresurveCHG HealthcareGatestoneSIBS RomaniaMount Royal UniversityCoresoOrnge
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Faddom's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: faddom.com, faddom.com/pricing, faddom.com/job-department/product, faddom.com/customer-stories, faddom.com/partners. 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 Faddom'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 Faddom, 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 Faddom by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Faddom 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 Faddom, 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.