Small business=heldSince September 2026: 2% → 2%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 14 → 19 of 78
2 categories · RankedFinout
82Judge labels
12First choices
6Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
14% in FinOps for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 76 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 4% of its 24 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Finout →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business17 of 83
2%11 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 76
5%24 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise2 of 73
14%33 labels
accepted challenger
In finops · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Finout 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 | 5% | 4 of 76 | 4% | 24 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 4% → 6%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| IT financial management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 40 of 159 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Finout held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · FinOps · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 4% → 6%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
6%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 6 → 4 of 70
Enterprise▲+7Since September 2026: 7% → 13%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
13%from 7% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 4 → 2 of 71
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FinOps | 4% | 6% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 4% → 6%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 4 of 76 |
| IT financial mgmt | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 40 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 Finout across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Finout across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct15 labels2
Paraphrase15 labels4
Comparative22 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained12 labels5
Scale-constrained12 labels1
Negative6 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative82 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 14 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.
“Finout - Simplifies the billing process for Cloud Providers, Data Warehouses, and CDNs into a single, detailed invoice.” Llama 4 Maverick · FinOps · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Finout | Multi-cloud + SaaS consolidation with virtual tagging | Newer vendor; validate maturity” DeepSeek V4 Flash · FinOps · scale prompt · first choice
“I would recommend Finout as the strongest default choice” Perplexity Sonar · FinOps · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“These are great if you have multiple clouds and need to translate technical infrastructure into business/product-level costs.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · FinOps · scale 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.
“Avoid percentage-of-spend pricing models (like CloudHealth, Cloudability, or Finout's enterprise tiers)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · FinOps · budget prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Finout, over the 82 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Finout was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Finout, over the 82 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Finout was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Finout. 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 82 of the 82 answers that named Finout and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cloudzero.com51
cloudaware.com47
finout.ioYour site44
amnic.com33
nops.io27
pointfive.co26
vantage.sh26
cloudbolt.io18
openmetal.io18
usage.ai18
264 of the 308 domain citations in answers naming Finout came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
finout.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Finout takes 5% of first choices and Vantage takes 45%.ShowHide
Search and answers
finout.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Finout takes 5% of first choices and Vantage takes 45%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cloud cost management platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “cloud cost management platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 880 a month (“finout”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 10 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 40,296 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,143 · 143 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,888
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
5%
rank 4 of 76 in finops
Segment leader
45%
Vantage
- First choices
- 12 across its categories
- Named in
- 82 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 82 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on finout.io
521
subdomains included
Content
291
counted in the table below
Documentation
154
Product · Integration
0 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 202 | 3 | 2026-09-28 | FinOps | |
| Case study | 20 | 0 | 2026-06-25 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 19 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 16 | undated | FinOps | ||
| Template or tool | 16 | 0 | 2022-08-14 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 8 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 7 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 3 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Best cloud cost management tools for continuous improvement blog
- 2026-09-28Aws cost management tools blog
- 2026-09-22Top 10 cloud cost optimization tools for 2026 blog
- 2026-06-25Bazaarvoice case study
- 2026-05-05Introducing finouts mcp integration blog
- 2025-08-23Alphasense case study
Events in person
Upcoming
- June 7, 2027 to June 10, 2027Tokenomicon conferenceSan Diego, USA · attends
Last twelve months
- June 8, 2026 to June 11, 2026FinOps XSan Diego · exhibited
- June 8, 2026 to June 11, 2026FinOps X 2026San Diego, USA · attended
As the event pages on finout.io state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page finout.io 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 September 29, 2026.
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The company
Finout is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Finout is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- FinOps platform for the Agentic Era
- For
- Finance, Leadership, and Engineering
- Price stated
- Finout charges a flat platform fee based on the spend under management, not per seat. finout.io
- Free plan or trial
- Free trial finout.io
- Integrations claimed
- 40 finout.io · 18 finout.io/compliance pages disagree
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type IIISO 27001GDPR compliant
- Hosting
- EUUS
- Customers named
- WizLyftAppsflyerTenableDemandbaseBazaarvoiceOrca SecurityApps Flyer
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price
What Finout's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: finout.io, finout.io/pricing, finout.io/compliance, finout.io/customer-stories, finout.io/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Finout by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Finout 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 Finout, 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.