Every category where a model named ManageEngine DDI Central 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
DDI and IP address management	Network and edge	4%	12 of 115	12%	8	under 10 labels · led by BlueCat Micetro at 15%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ManageEngine DDI Central 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 ManageEngine DDI Central 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	0	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	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

Direct5 labels2

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative7 labelsNone

Budget-constrained9 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.

“ManageEngine DDI Central stands out as an affordable enterprise solution with a clear entry price point.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DDI and IPAM · budget prompt · first choice

“best budget-conscious commercial pick: ManageEngine DDI Central” GPT-6 Luna · DDI and IPAM · budget prompt · first choice

“Best for: Small-to-medium businesses (SMBs) that want a dedicated, out-of-the-box DDI platform with professional support.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDI and IPAM · budget prompt · alternative

“Best for unified DNS/DHCP/IPAM management in a mid-size business context: ManageEngine DDI Central” Perplexity Sonar · DDI and IPAM · direct 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.

“generally positioned below the top enterprise-heavy platforms” GPT-5.4 mini · DDI and IPAM · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ManageEngine DDI Central, over the 25 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ManageEngine DDI Central was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BlueCat Integrity17 of 251Not among the top eight

EfficientIP SOLIDserver15 of 250Not among the top eight

Infoblox13 of 253Not among the top eight

phpIPAM11 of 253Not among the top eight

SolarWinds IP Address Manager11 of 250Not among the top eight

Micetro6 of 252Not among the top eight

Infoblox Universal DDI6 of 251Not among the top eight

BlueCat Micetro5 of 252Not among the top eight

SpatiumDDI4 of 253Not among the top eight

NetBox4 of 251Not 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 ManageEngine DDI Central. 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 25 of the 25 answers that named ManageEngine DDI Central and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bluecatnetworks.com14

itechguides.com11

peerspot.com10

slashdot.org10

sourceforge.net10

gartner.com9

manageengine.comYour site9

us.fitgap.com9

infoblox.com8

blog.domotz.com7

Eighty-eight of the ninety-seven domain citations in answers naming ManageEngine DDI Central came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

itechguides.com/best/ddi-management-platform8

peerspot.com/categories/ddi8

blog.domotz.com/all/ipam-solutions7

cotocus.com/blog/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison7

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison7

gartner.com/reviews/market/dns-dhcp-and-ip-address-management-ddi7

rajeshkumar.xyz/blog/ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms6

stocksmantra.com/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where ManageEngine DDI Central 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: 20 a month (“manageengine ddi central”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Its own site: It sits on ManageEngine's site (manageengine.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 12 of 115 in DDI and IPAM

Segment leader

15%

BlueCat Micetro

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 25 answers
Its own site cited: in 25 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.

Names read as ManageEngine DDI Central

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

ManageEngine – DDI Central 1

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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.

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The company

ManageEngine is the company behind ManageEngine DDI Central.

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On record

Company records

Also from ManageEngine: ManageEngine AD Manager Plus, ManageEngine AD360, ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus, ManageEngine Applications Manager, ManageEngine AssetExplorer, ManageEngine AssetExplorer / Endpoint Central, ManageEngine CloudSpend, ManageEngine DCIM and 28 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Unified DNS, DHCP, and IP address management
manageengine.com/dns-dhcp-ipam/opmanager-integration-with-ddi-central.html
For: Enterprise
manageengine.com/dns-dhcp-ipam/create-authoritative-zones-using-ddi-central.html
Free plan or trial: 30-DAY FREE TRIAL manageengine.com/dns-dhcp-ipam/opmanager-integration-with-ddi-central.html
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What ManageEngine DDI Central's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: manageengine.com/dns-dhcp-ipam/opmanager-integration-with-ddi-central.html, manageengine.com/dns-dhcp-ipam/anomaly-detection-in-dns-dhcp-ddi-central.html, manageengine.com/dns-dhcp-ipam/create-authoritative-zones-using-ddi-central.html, manageengine.com/dns-dhcp-ipam/ManageEngine-OpManager-Plus-DDI-Central-integration.html, manageengine.com/dns-dhcp-ipam/whats-new/DDI-central-5100.html. A claimed page can correct any of 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 ManageEngine DDI Central'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 ManageEngine DDI Central, 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 ManageEngine DDI Central by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where ManageEngine DDI Central 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 ManageEngine DDI Central, 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.