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Google Cloud Deployment Manager

27Judge labels

0First choices

12Negative labels

10 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

9 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Google Cloud Deployment Manager was named 9 times in IaC, where Terraform led with 46%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business18 of 44

under the label threshold

Mid-market19 of 46

under the label threshold

Enterprise63 of 64

under the label threshold

In iac · 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 Google Cloud Deployment Manager 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
Infrastructure as code	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	19 of 46	33%	9	under 10 labels · led by Terraform at 46%

Movement

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

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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative12 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative27 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“free, but best only if you're committed to one cloud” GPT-5.4 mini · IaC · budget prompt · alternative

“Best for: Google Cloud-centric environments.” Mistral Small · IaC · comparative prompt · alternative

“Best for: GCP-only environments” MiniMax M2.5 · IaC · comparative 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.

“minimal community momentum and tooling compared to its competitors” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · soft negative

“These tools are tightly coupled to their respective providers.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · soft negative

“Similar lock-in concerns. Prefer multi-cloud tools” Kimi K2 · IaC · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud Deployment Manager, over the 27 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Cloud Deployment Manager was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Terraform26 of 2714Not in the top three

Pulumi25 of 272Not in the top three

AWS CloudFormation21 of 270Not in the top three

Ansible18 of 274Not in the top three

OpenTofu17 of 2711Not in the top three

Chef17 of 270Not in the top three

Puppet16 of 270Not in the top three

Azure Bicep11 of 270Not in the top three

Azure Resource Manager templates11 of 270Not in the top three

Crossplane10 of 271Not 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 Google Cloud Deployment Manager. 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 16 of the 27 answers that named Google Cloud Deployment Manager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

apiiro.com11

cortex.io10

pulumi.com9

reddit.com8

claranet.com7

dev.to7

spacelift.io7

checkthat.ai6

firefly.ai5

stackgen.com5

Seventy-five of the seventy-five domain citations in answers naming Google Cloud Deployment Manager came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

apiiro.com/blog/best-iac-tools11

cortex.io/post/best-infrastructure-as-code-iac-tools10

pulumi.com/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools7

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-infrastructure-as-code-tools6

claranet.com/uk/blog/right-and-wrong-approach-to-infrastructure-code6

technologymatch.com/blog/terraform-ansible-puppet-or-chef-which-tool-is-right-for-it-leade5

dev.to/blackrossay/infrastructure-as-code-iac-tools-pros-cons-and-mitigating-vendor-lock-i4

guideflow.com/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Google Cloud Deployment Manager

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

Google Deployment Manager 1

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