Every category where a model named LeanIX 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
Enterprise architecture tools	IT operations and endpoint	16%	3 of 113	25%	20	criticized challenger
IT financial management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	80 of 159	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for LeanIX yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated LeanIX 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	0	1	4
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	2	4
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	0	1	3
Mistral Small	0	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	2	0	3

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

Direct11 labels4

Paraphrase15 labels7

Comparative10 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained10 labels1

Scale-constrained16 labels9

Negative11 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative73 labels in all, every segment counted; 21 of the 22 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.

“For most mid-market B2B companies, LeanIX or Ardoq offer the best balance of cloud-native architecture, modern UX, and scalability.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · EA tools · direct prompt · first choice

“SaaS options like LeanIX, Bizzdesign, Ardoq, or Sparx Enterprise Architect, which support mid-sized orgs managing 50-500+ apps” Grok 4.1 Fast · EA tools · scale prompt · first choice

“Widely considered the gold standard for modern Application Portfolio Management. It is incredibly user-friendly” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EA tools · scale prompt · first choice

“LeanIX is currently the dominant force in the mid-market and enterprise sectors because it is cloud-native” Qwen 3.7 Flash · EA tools · direct prompt · first choice

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.

“Avoid high-end tools like LeanIX, Bizzdesign, or Ardoq (enterprise pricing, often $10K+ annually).” Grok 4.1 Fast · EA tools · budget prompt · hard negative

“Modern SaaS platforms like LeanIX, Ardoq, and BiZZdesign frequently cost upwards of $10,000 to $50,000+ per year, placing them far out of reach” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EA tools · budget prompt · soft negative

“SaaS Platforms with "Asset-Based" Pricing (e.g., LeanIX, Ardoq) ... Unpredictable, ballooning licensing costs.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EA tools · negative prompt · soft negative

“May be overkill/over-budget for smaller mid-market companies; implementation can take 8–16 weeks” Kimi K2 · EA tools · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as LeanIX, over the 73 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and LeanIX was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ardoq42 of 733Compare →

Archi27 of 7311Compare →

Bizzdesign Horizzon26 of 730Compare →

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect21 of 736Compare →

MEGA HOPEX17 of 730Not among the top eight

Lucidchart16 of 730Not among the top eight

Sparx Enterprise Architect14 of 735Not among the top eight

ONES.com8 of 733Not among the top eight

Avolution ABACUS8 of 730Not among the top eight

Miro8 of 730Not 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 LeanIX. 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 63 of the 73 answers that named LeanIX and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

erstudio.com37

superblocks.com30

g2.com25

capstera.com22

us.fitgap.com22

ardoq.com19

catio.tech19

thectoclub.com19

itechguides.com18

leanix.netYour site16

211 of the 227 domain citations in answers naming LeanIX came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

erstudio.com/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools37

superblocks.com/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools30

capstera.com/knowledge-hub/articles/enterprise-architecture-tools-guide21

catio.tech/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools19

thectoclub.com/tools/best-enterprise-architecture-software18

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tools/10-best-enterprise-arch/13170569415

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/enterprise-architecture-tool15

research.oz.spotlightar.com/reports/magic-quadrant-enterprise-architecture-tools-2024/lead15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

leanix.net ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, LeanIX takes 16% of first choices and SAP LeanIX takes 25%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “enterprise architecture tool”

Position for “enterprise architecture tools”

Searches for its name, Google: 2,900 a month (“leanix”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 64 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 49,984 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 4,139 · 595 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,325
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 102 text, 10 image, 8 video · 105 shown in the last 30 days

First shown June 2025, as SAP SE, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 13 in the year, 107 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

16%

rank 3 of 113 in EA tools

Segment leader

25%

SAP LeanIX

First choices: 21 across its categories
Named in: 73 answers
Its own site cited: in 63 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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 leanix.net

835

subdomains included

Content

255

counted in the table below

Documentation

563

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	110	1	2026-09-17
Webinar or virtual event	54	0	2025-04-23
Glossary or explainer	35	0	2026-05-29
Conference or event	33	0	2026-06-01
Comparison	12	0	2026-06-05
Case study	10	0	2024-07-05
Report or ebook	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-17Protect your investment blog
2026-06-25Joule in sap blog
2026-06-24Democratize reporting ai blog
2026-06-23Ea ai assistant blog
2026-06-05Technical user with non admin role vs quality seal 1722 comparison
2026-06-03Ai enterprise architecture blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page leanix.net 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.

Names read as LeanIX

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

LeanIX (SAP) 2LeanIX (by SAP) 1

Follow LeanIX

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

LeanIX is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Enterprise Architecture Transformation
leanix.net
For: Enterprise architects and business transformation managers
leanix.net
Price stated: pricing on the number of applications in your landscape, allowing unlimited users for the tool leanix.net
Customers named: MEDICE Health FamilySEFENorfolk Southern
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting

What LeanIX's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: leanix.net. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 LeanIX'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 LeanIX, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where LeanIX 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 LeanIX, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where LeanIX is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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LeanIX is among the products AI models recommend first in Enterprise architecture tools this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/enterprise-architecture-tools/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/leanix--enterprise-architecture-tools-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Enterprise architecture tools, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Enterprise architecture tools standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/enterprise-architecture-tools/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/leanix--enterprise-architecture-tools-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Enterprise architecture tools, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

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Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/enterprise-architecture-tools/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/leanix--enterprise-architecture-tools-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Enterprise architecture tools, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Enterprise architecture tools standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.