Every category where a model named Grafana 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
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	29%	1 of 63	4%	53	accepted challenger
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	4%	6 of 65	9%	32	accepted challenger
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	20 of 70	17%	6	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 54%
Cloud cost management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	70 of 79	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 54%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	5	0	7
GPT-5.4 mini	1	5	2	0	8
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	4	2	5	13
Perplexity Sonar	1	2	2	0	5
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	6	2	0	10
Mistral Small	2	2	1	0	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	4	6	0	0	10
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	10	1	2	13
Kimi K2	4	3	2	0	9
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	3	2	0	6
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	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

Direct38 labels4

Paraphrase29 labels8

Comparative40 labels9not counted in share

Budget-constrained52 labels23

Scale-constrained42 labels7

Negative43 labels9not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative244 labels in all, every segment counted; 42 of the 60 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.

“For a mid-sized B2B company, Grafana Cloud is my top pick because it strikes the best balance of functionality, cost control, and flexibility.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Observability · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Grafana + Prometheus + Loki + Tempo (or Mimir) is the enterprise favorite and avoids license lock-in” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · first choice

“Start with Grafana Cloud if you have some DevOps capacity and want to control costs long-term.” Kimi K2 · Observability · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Grafana Cloud is a good option for teams that want open-source control and can ride the free tier” Llama 4 Maverick · Observability · budget prompt · first choice

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.

“open-source tools like Prometheus and Grafana are powerful and free, they are not free to run. They require significant human capital to manage.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

“using them as a "black box" solution is a trap for many organizations... "Free" software requires paid engineering time.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Observability · negative prompt · soft negative

“Self-Hosted "DIY" Open-Source Stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch)... The "free as in a puppy" trap” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Observability · negative prompt · soft negative

“open-source Prometheus and Grafana are only "free" if you don't calculate the engineering hours” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Infra monitoring · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Grafana, over the 229 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Grafana was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Datadog201 of 22942Compare →

New Relic197 of 22932Compare →

Dynatrace115 of 22918Not in the top three

Prometheus76 of 2296Not in the top three

SigNoz62 of 2294Not in the top three

Better Stack48 of 22913Not in the top three

Honeycomb45 of 2293Not in the top three

Zabbix42 of 2294Not in the top three

Splunk40 of 2291Not in the top three

Splunk Observability Cloud31 of 2290Not 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 Grafana. 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 169 of the 229 answers that named Grafana and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com89

toolradar.com75

ir.com60

uptrace.dev59

motadata.com48

coralogix.com45

cubeapm.com45

newrelic.com45

openobserve.ai45

middleware.io39

550 of the 550 domain citations in answers naming Grafana came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

toolradar.com/guides/best-observability-platforms66

ir.com/guides/top-observability-tools-comparison-2026-smbs-vs-enterprise-platforms60

gartner.com/reviews/market/observability-platforms55

uptrace.dev/tools/top-observability-tools45

augmentcode.com/tools/best-observability-platforms34

coralogix.com/guides/observability/observability-platforms33

gartner.com/reviews/market/infrastructure-monitoring-tools30

netdata.cloud/resources/best-infrastructure-monitoring-tools28

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Grafana

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

Grafana Cloud 43Grafana Stack 2Grafana Cloud (LGTM stack) 1Grafana Cloud (Loki/Tempo/Prometheus) 1Grafana Cloud / Grafana OSS 1Grafana Cloud / Grafana Stack 1Grafana Cloud / Grafana stack 1Grafana Cloud Free Tier 1Grafana Labs / Grafana Cloud 1Grafana Stack (Grafana Cloud / On-Prem) 1Grafana-based open-source stacks 1Prometheus + Jaeger + Grafana 1Prometheus/Grafana OSS 1Self-hosted Prometheus + Grafana + Loki + Tempo 1self-hosted Grafana Stack 1

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