Index › Products › Maester · October 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Maester

2Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative 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. Maester was named 1 time in M365 management, where CoreView led with 20%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business57 of 151

under the label threshold

Mid-market54 of 149

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In m365 management · 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 Maester 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
Microsoft 365 management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	54 of 149	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by CoreView at 20%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

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.

“Choose Maester if you want to run a quick, painless security audit” Gemini 3.5 Flash · M365 management · 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 Maester, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Maester was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

AdminDroid1 of 21Not among the top eight

Planner1 of 21Not among the top eight

BetterCloud1 of 20Not among the top eight

CIPP1 of 20Not among the top eight

CISA ScubaGear1 of 20Not among the top eight

Cayosoft1 of 20Not among the top eight

CoreView1 of 20Not among the top eight

Lists1 of 20Not among the top eight

Microsoft1 of 20Not among the top eight

Microsoft 365 Admin Center1 of 20Not 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 Maester. 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 Maester and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.admindroid.com2

admindroid.com1

bearded365guy.com1

brightwork.com1

cisa.gov1

coreview.com1

docs.cipp.app1

expertinsights.com1

g2.com1

getnerdio.com1

Eleven of the eleven domain citations in answers naming Maester came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

blog.admindroid.com/free-microsoft-365-management-tools2

admindroid.com/microsoft365/compare/microsoft-365-management-tools1

bearded365guy.com/blog/audit-and-secure-microsoft-365-fast-with-maester1

blog.admindroid.com/admindroid-pricing-changes1

blog.admindroid.com/pay-as-you-go-billing-for-microsoft-onedrive-accounts1

brightwork.com/blog/best-tool-for-your-project1

cisa.gov/resources-tools/services/secure-cloud-business-applications-scuba-project1

coreview.com/blog/5-office-365-management-tools-every-microsoft-admin-should-consider1

Pages are listed as the models cited 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 Maester'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 Maester, 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 Maester by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Maester 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 Maester, 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.