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	Since September 2026
Cloud cost management	Cloud and infrastructure	2%	12 of 76	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 45%	▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Infrastructure as code	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	35 of 59	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Terraform at 57%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

Since September 2026, Infracost held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · FinOps · by segment

Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 2% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 7 → 22 of 78

Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

0%from 2% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 9 → 21 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 15 → 23 of 71

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
FinOps	2%	0%	▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 9 → 12 of 76
IaC	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 31 → 35 of 59

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 Infracost across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.20	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labels1

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative7 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative33 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“Native Cost Explorer + Infracost for prevention, plus Vantage Starter for a clean consolidated dashboard.” Muse Glimmer 30B · FinOps · budget prompt · first choice

“Preventing expensive deployments | Any amount (using Terraform) | Infracost (Open-source)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · FinOps · budget prompt · alternative

“Choose Infracost if you want cost estimates before code is deployed.” Perplexity Sonar · FinOps · comparative prompt · alternative

“Free open source version available ... Pre-deployment cost estimates” Kimi K2 · 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 33 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.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Vantage23 of 3313Not among the top eight

AWS Cost Explorer22 of 336Not among the top eight

Microsoft Cost Management17 of 332Not among the top eight

Kubecost17 of 330Not among the top eight

IBM Apptio Cloudability16 of 331Not among the top eight

CloudZero14 of 331Not among the top eight

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth13 of 331Not among the top eight

OpenCost11 of 330Not among the top eight

Google Cloud Billing10 of 331Not among the top eight

ProsperOps9 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 Infracost. 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 29 of the 33 answers that named Infracost and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudzero.com21

cloudaware.com20

openmetal.io17

spendark.com16

nops.io13

amnic.com10

g2.com10

usage.ai10

cloudbolt.io7

finout.io7

131 of the 131 domain citations in answers naming Infracost came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudzero.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools19

openmetal.io/resources/blog/which-cloud-cost-management-tool-is-best-for-your-company17

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools16

spendark.com/blog/cloud-cost-tools-small-business15

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-optimization-tools9

nops.io/blog/cloud-cost-management-software-tools9

amnic.com/blogs/cloud-cost-management-tools6

harness.io/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

infracost.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Infracost takes 2% of first choices and Vantage takes 45%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “cloud cost management platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “cloud cost management platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 590 a month (“infracost”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 21 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 4,599 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,354 · 37 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 854
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 12 of 76 in finops

Segment leader

45%

Vantage

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 33 answers
Its own site cited: in 29 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on infracost.io

416

subdomains included

Content

387

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

5 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	206	67	2026-09-29	FinOps, Object storage
Glossary or explainer	170	100	2026-09-29	FinOps, IaC
Webinar or virtual event	5	5	2026-09-29
Case study	4	4	2026-09-29
Comparison	1	1	2026-09-29
Template or tool	1	1	2026-09-29

Most recent

2026-09-29Finops policies blog
2026-09-29Glossary glossary or explainer
2026-09-29Webinar webinar or virtual event
2026-09-29Vega case study
2026-09-29Estee lauder case study
2026-09-29Safe fleet case study

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page infracost.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

Follow Infracost

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.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Infracost is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: FinOps governance for platform teams. Prevent cloud waste and budget overruns before every deploy.
infracost.io
For: Platform Managers, FinOps teams, Engineers
infracost.io
Price stated: Free; Starter $250/mo; Cloud $1,000/mo; Enterprise Contact infracost.io/pricing
Starting price: 250/mo infracost.io/pricing
Free plan or trial: Get started free infracost.io
Integrations claimed: 3 infracost.io/pricing
Customers named: Warner HotelsHappeningSafeFleetAcme IncVegaEstée LauderSafe FleetBourne Leisure
Not stated on the pages read: Certifications, hosting

What Infracost's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: infracost.io, infracost.io/pricing, infracost.io/product/ai, infracost.io/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Infracost by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Infracost 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 Infracost, 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.