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	Since September 2026
Infrastructure as code	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	55 of 59	45%	11	criticized challenger	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Google Cloud Deployment Manager held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · IaC · 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 17 → 40 of 42

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 → 45 of 51

Enterprise=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 58 → 55 of 57

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
IaC	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 → 55 of 59

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 Google Cloud Deployment Manager across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative13 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“Officially deprecated by Google (replaced by Terraform...) • No active community support; risk of breaking changes.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative

“Google has officially deprecated Deployment Manager... making Deployment Manager a complete dead end.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative

“Google Cloud's older Deployment Manager is no longer supported as of April 1, 2026.” GPT-6 Luna · IaC · comparative prompt · hard negative

“Google has announced its deprecation as of December 31, 2025” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Cloud Deployment Manager, over the 25 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.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Pulumi25 of 251Not among the top eight

Terraform23 of 2513Not among the top eight

Azure Bicep23 of 250Not among the top eight

Ansible20 of 253Not among the top eight

AWS CloudFormation20 of 250Not among the top eight

OpenTofu13 of 258Not among the top eight

Puppet12 of 250Not among the top eight

Chef11 of 250Not among the top eight

AWS CDK10 of 250Not among the top eight

Crossplane10 of 250Not 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 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 19 of the 25 answers that named Google Cloud Deployment Manager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

pulumi.com14

gartsolutions.com10

spacelift.io10

cortex.io7

docs.aws.amazon.com7

openxcell.com7

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com6

guideflow.com6

rajeshkumar.xyz6

claranet.com5

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

Pages cited

gartsolutions.com/infrastructure-as-code-tools8

cortex.io/post/best-infrastructure-as-code-iac-tools7

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

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tools/best-iac-tools/1261453086

guideflow.com/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools6

pulumi.com/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools6

rajeshkumar.xyz/blog/infrastructure-as-code-iac-tools6

claranet.com/uk/blog/right-and-wrong-approach-to-infrastructure-code5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

google.dev is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Google Cloud Deployment Manager takes 0% of first choices and Terraform takes 57%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “infrastructure-as-code tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “infrastructure-as-code tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 110 a month (“google cloud deployment manager”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 2 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 881,346 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 22,650 · 2,977 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 29,239
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 120 text · 109 shown in the last 30 days

First shown February 2025, as Google LLC, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 103 in the year, 17 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 55 of 59 in iac

Segment leader

57%

Terraform

First choices: 0 across its categories
Named in: 25 answers
Its own site cited: in 19 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.

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.

Deployment Manager 2Google Deployment Manager 2

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The company

Google Cloud is the company behind Google Cloud Deployment Manager.

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where Google Cloud Deployment Manager 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 Google Cloud Deployment Manager, 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;
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