EnterprisenewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 44 of 71, unchanged
IBM Kubecost
2Judge labels
0First choices
1Negative labels
2 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
1 label, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. IBM Kubecost was named 1 time in FinOps, where Vantage led with 45%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market74 of 76
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprise46 of 73
0%1 label
under the label threshold
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 IBM Kubecost 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 | 0% | 74 of 76 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 45% |
Movement
Since September 2026, IBM Kubecost held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · FinOps · by segment
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FinOps | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 74 of 76, 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 IBM Kubecost 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 IBM Kubecost 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative0 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 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.
“confirm exactly what is supported, what is paid, and how the roadmap affects you” GPT-6 Luna · FinOps · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as IBM Kubecost, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Kubecost was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as IBM Kubecost, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Kubecost 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 IBM Kubecost. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named IBM Kubecost and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
amnic.com1
apptio.com1
cloudchipr.com1
cloudzero.com1
docs.aws.amazon.com1
finout.io1
gartner.com1
info.flexera.com1
newsroom.ibm.comYour site1
pointfive.co1
Nine of the ten domain citations in answers naming IBM Kubecost came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Follow IBM Kubecost
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
IBM is the company behind IBM Kubecost.ShowHide
The company
IBM is the company behind IBM Kubecost.
ShowHideOn record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- granular cost visibility
- For
- platform engineering and FinOps teams
- Free plan or trial
- Kubecost Free ibm.com/es-es/new/announcements/ibm-turbonomic-and-ibm-kubecost-unite-to-optimize-kubernetes-performance-and-cost
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What IBM Kubecost's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-turbonomic-and-ibm-kubecost-unite-to-optimize-kubernetes-performance-and-cost, ibm.com/new/announcements/unlocking-peak-kubernetes-performance-and-cost-efficiency-with-ibm-instana-powered-by-ibm-kubecost, ibm.com/products/turbonomic/integrations/kubecost, ibm.com/es-es/new/announcements/ibm-turbonomic-and-ibm-kubecost-unite-to-optimize-kubernetes-performance-and-cost, ibm.com/fr-fr/new/announcements/ibm-turbonomic-and-ibm-kubecost-unite-to-optimize-kubernetes-performance-and-cost. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when IBM Kubecost's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as IBM Kubecost, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for IBM Kubecost by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where IBM Kubecost 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 IBM Kubecost, 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.