Every category where a model named Harness Cloud Cost Management 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
Cloud cost management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	18 of 79	0%	16	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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

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

Direct6 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative16 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained8 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative37 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.

“offering cost visibility, governance-as-code, and automated waste reduction via Cloud AutoStopping, with a free tier available for small workloads” Claude Haiku 4.5 · FinOps · budget prompt · alternative

“if your biggest pain is Kubernetes/container cost control and engineering-led savings” GPT-5.4 mini · FinOps · direct prompt · alternative

“Fast, modern, mid-market: Vantage, Amnic, Finout, Harness Cloud Cost Management” Kimi K2 · FinOps · scale prompt · alternative

“Harness | CI/CD-integrated governance | Usage-based | DevOps-heavy” Grok 4.1 Fast · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Harness Cloud Cost Management, over the 37 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Harness Cloud Cost Management was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

IBM Apptio Cloudability33 of 3712Not in the top three

Vantage29 of 379Not in the top three

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth29 of 372Not in the top three

CloudZero24 of 371Not in the top three

Kubecost19 of 370Not in the top three

Flexera One17 of 372Not in the top three

Finout15 of 370Not in the top three

AWS Cost Explorer14 of 373Not in the top three

nOps13 of 370Not in the top three

Microsoft Cost Management12 of 372Not 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 Harness Cloud Cost Management. 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 32 of the 37 answers that named Harness Cloud Cost Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com25

cloudaware.com24

cloudzero.com23

learn.g2.com18

usage.ai16

nops.io15

vantage.sh13

amnic.com12

mainline.com10

pointfive.co10

166 of the 166 domain citations in answers naming Harness Cloud Cost Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/cloud-financial-management-tools24

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools23

cloudzero.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools18

learn.g2.com/best-cloud-cost-management-software18

usage.ai/blogs/finops/tools/best-tools16

nops.io/blog/cloud-cost-management-software-tools12

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-optimization-tools11

mainline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/The-Forrester-Wave-Cloud-Cost-Management-And-Optim10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Harness Cloud Cost Management

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

Harness 8Harness (CCM) 1Harness Cloud Cost Management (CCM) 1

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