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IBM Turbonomic

33Judge labels
0First choices
10Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in FinOps for mid-market buyers
Rank 24 of 76 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
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 Turbonomic 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Cloud cost managementCloud and infrastructure0%24 of 760%7under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 45%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
IT financial managementIT operations and endpoint0%133 of 15933%3under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9%
AIOps platformsIT operations and endpoint0%86 of 9350%2under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 17%

Movement

Since September 2026, IBM Turbonomic held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · FinOps · 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 50 → 76 of 78
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 66 → 23 of 70
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 16 → 15 of 71

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
FinOps0%0%=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 66 → 24 of 76
IT financial mgmt0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 133 of 159, unchanged
AIOps0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 86 of 93, 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 Turbonomic across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00112
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.2001102
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash00101
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash00112
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500000
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00101

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
Direct8 labelsNone
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative11 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative9 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative33 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.

“IBM Turbonomic offers AI-driven resource optimization, multi-cloud cost visibility, and automated scaling” Claude Haiku 4.5 · FinOps · comparative prompt · alternative
“If you also want automated performance‑aware optimization → add Turbonomic” GLM 4.7 FlashX · FinOps · comparative prompt · alternative
“Prioritize leaders like Apptio Cloudability, IBM Turbonomic, or DOIT” Grok 4.20 · FinOps · negative 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.

“they are generally not recommended for mid-market B2B companies” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AIOps · direct prompt · hard negative
“Unlike enterprise-heavy platforms (like IBM Turbonomic or Oracle)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · IT financial mgmt · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM Turbonomic, over the 33 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Turbonomic was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
IBM Apptio Cloudability23 of 338Not among the top eight
Flexera One18 of 333Not among the top eight
CloudZero17 of 332Not among the top eight
VMware Tanzu CloudHealth16 of 331Not among the top eight
Vantage14 of 333Not among the top eight
AWS Cost Explorer12 of 335Not among the top eight
Microsoft Cost Management8 of 333Not among the top eight
Finout8 of 331Not among the top eight
CAST AI8 of 330Not among the top eight
Kubecost7 of 330Not 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 IBM Turbonomic. 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 32 of the 33 answers that named IBM Turbonomic and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudaware.com19
cloudzero.com18
g2.com15
nops.io12
peerspot.com12
amnic.com11
finout.io9
gartner.com9
learn.g2.com9
vantage.sh8

122 of the 122 domain citations in answers naming IBM Turbonomic came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where IBM Turbonomic stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Searches for its name, Google
320 a month (“ibm turbonomic”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
20 a month
Its own site
It sits on IBM's site (ibm.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 24 of 76 in finops
Segment leader
45%
Vantage
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
33 answers
Its own site cited
in 32 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 IBM Turbonomic

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

IBM is the company behind IBM Turbonomic.
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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked
Positioning
Improve app performance, increase IT productivity, and unite teams
Price stated
Un modello semplificato ed economico che offre trasparenza e controllo su spese cloud e data center, ottimizzando al contempo le prestazioni dei workload, consentendo alle organizzazioni di automatizzare le azioni di ottimizzazione delle risorse, riducendo lo sforzo manuale e i costi operativi. ibm.com/it-it/products/turbonomic
Free plan or trial
Try Turbonomic developer.ibm.com/components/turbonomic
Customers named
IBM Big AI Models (BAM) teamHyland SoftwareIBM CIO OrganizationAPIS ITIBM Technology ZoneAtruvia AGAssaí
Not stated on the pages read
Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What IBM Turbonomic's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: developer.ibm.com/components/turbonomic, ibm.com/case-studies/ibm-bam-turbonomic, developer.ibm.com/tutorials/turbonomic-manage-aws-resources, developer.ibm.com/articles/understanding-application-resource-management-using-turbonomic, ibm.com/it-it/products/turbonomic. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
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