Every category where a model named Infracost 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	2%	9 of 79	0%	13	accepted challenger
Infrastructure as code	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	34 of 46	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Terraform at 46%

Movement

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

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

Direct7 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative11 labelsNone

Budget-constrained21 labels2

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative54 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“starting with Vantage for monitoring and Infracost for pre-deployment estimates is a cost-effective strategy” Mistral Small · FinOps · budget prompt · first choice

“It has a highly capable, free-forever community tier for individual developers and small teams.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · FinOps · budget prompt · alternative

“Infracost - If you want to prevent overspending before deploying resources” MiniMax M2.5 · FinOps · budget prompt · alternative

“Free unlimited local runs for Terraform/CFM/CDK cost estimates in PRs.” Grok 4.1 Fast · FinOps · budget 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 Infracost, over the 54 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Infracost was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Vantage41 of 5423Not in the top three

AWS Cost Explorer31 of 5415Not in the top three

Microsoft Cost Management28 of 549Not in the top three

Kubecost26 of 540Not in the top three

CloudZero24 of 541Not in the top three

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth24 of 540Not in the top three

OpenCost23 of 540Not in the top three

IBM Apptio Cloudability20 of 541Not in the top three

ProsperOps18 of 540Not in the top three

CAST AI17 of 540Not 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 Infracost. 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 44 of the 54 answers that named Infracost and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudzero.com37

cloudaware.com36

spendark.com32

learn.g2.com19

nops.io19

gartner.com18

usage.ai18

amnic.com17

g2.com11

hostingx.co.il11

218 of the 218 domain citations in answers naming Infracost came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools36

cloudzero.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools36

spendark.com/blog/cloud-cost-tools-small-business28

learn.g2.com/best-cloud-cost-management-software19

gartner.com/reviews/market/cloud-financial-management-tools18

spendark.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-alternatives18

amnic.com/blogs/cloud-cost-management-tools16

nops.io/blog/cloud-cost-management-software-tools15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Infracost

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

Infracost (OSS CLI) 1

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