Every category where a model named ManageEngine OpManager 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
Network monitoring and management	Network and edge	22%	2 of 78	6%	35	accepted challenger
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	8%	4 of 79	4%	25	accepted challenger	▲+7Since September 2026: 0% → 7%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Data center infrastructure management	IT operations and endpoint	2%	13 of 103	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by Sunbird DCIM at 27%
AIOps platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	27 of 93	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 17%
Remote monitoring and management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	44 of 62	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by NinjaOne at 47%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	53 of 66	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 46%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
DDI and IP address management	Network and edge	0%	53 of 115	0%	1	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 OpManager 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 OpManager 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	1	1	5
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	0	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	1	4	0	0	5
Grok 4.20	1	4	4	2	11
Mistral Small	1	2	2	0	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	3	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	3	1	1	0	5
Qwen 3.7 Flash	4	2	1	2	9
Kimi K2	2	3	0	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	2	0	5
MiniMax M2.5	1	5	0	1	7
GPT-6 Luna	1	1	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	3	0	0	5

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

Direct39 labels13

Paraphrase46 labels11

Comparative35 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained30 labels5

Scale-constrained21 labels1

Negative23 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative194 labels in all, every segment counted; 30 of the 35 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.

“A comprehensive monitoring tool that can monitor networks, servers, applications, and websites. It is suitable for mid-sized teams on a fixed budget” Llama 4 Maverick · Infra monitoring · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“ManageEngine OpManager and Progress WhatsUp Gold frequently hit the sweet spot of features vs. cost” Kimi K2 · Network monitoring · scale prompt · first choice

“The best infrastructure monitoring tool for a company with a limited budget is ManageEngine OpManager” Llama 4 Maverick · Infra monitoring · budget prompt · first choice

“The best network monitoring tool for a company with a limited budget is ManageEngine OpManager” Llama 4 Maverick · Network monitoring · budget 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.

“You should immediately migrate away from any RMM that is no longer receiving security patches.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · RMM · negative prompt · hard negative

“Be very cautious with ManageEngine; while feature-rich and cost-effective, their historical susceptibility to remote code execution requires rigorous security hardening” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Network monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

“Has experienced multiple vulnerabilities including authentication bypass, remote code execution, and cross-site scripting issues” MiniMax M2.5 · Network monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

“Not comprehensive enough for complex environments, limited scalability, and less ideal for diverse infrastructure requirements” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DCIM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ManageEngine OpManager, over the 194 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ManageEngine OpManager was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zabbix96 of 19413Compare →

Paessler PRTG Network Monitor68 of 19424Compare →

Dynatrace47 of 1943Not among the top eight

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor45 of 19411Not among the top eight

Auvik45 of 19410Compare →

Datadog Network Monitoring45 of 1941Compare →

Nagios45 of 1940Compare →

Datadog43 of 19417Compare →

LogicMonitor41 of 1941Compare →

New Relic38 of 1946Compare →

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 OpManager. 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 178 of the 194 answers that named ManageEngine OpManager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

motadata.com86

comparitech.com68

g2.com65

guideflow.com56

netdata.cloud51

manageengine.comYour site45

learn.g2.com43

uptrace.dev40

datamation.com39

thectoclub.com39

487 of the 532 domain citations in answers naming ManageEngine OpManager came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

motadata.com/blog/best-it-infrastructure-monitoring-tools50

guideflow.com/blog/network-monitoring-tools49

comparitech.com/net-admin/infrastructure-monitoring36

datamation.com/networks/network-monitoring-software35

netdata.cloud/resources/best-network-monitoring-tools29

kentik.com/kentipedia/best-network-monitoring-tools-202627

ninjaone.com/blog/best-network-management-tools27

learn.g2.com/best-network-monitoring-software23

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where ManageEngine OpManager 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: 480 a month (“manageengine opmanager”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 25 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

22%

rank 2 of 78 in network monitoring

Segment leader

26%

Auvik

First choices: 30 across its categories
Named in: 194 answers
Its own site cited: in 178 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.

Names read as ManageEngine OpManager

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

ManageEngine OpManager Plus 3ManageEngine 2ManageEngine (OpManager + Network Configuration Manager) 1ManageEngine OpManager / DCIM 1ManageEngine OpManager Plus / OpManager Nexus 1

Follow ManageEngine OpManager

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 OpManager.

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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: Manage your network and servers proactively using OpManager.
manageengine.com/itom/spiceworks-opmanager.html
For: administrators
store.manageengine.com/opmanager/opm-subscription.html
Price stated: Annual Subscription; Perpetual; Get Quote store.manageengine.com/opmanager/opm-subscription.html
Starting price: 245 manageengine.com/network-monitoring/manageengine-opmanager-vs-solarwinds-vs-prtg.html
Free plan or trial: free, 30-day trial manageengine.com/network-monitoring/manageengine-opmanager-vs-solarwinds-vs-prtg.html
Customers named: Lorealnasadhlat&tsiemenstime-warneralcatel-lucentsaint-gobain
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, certifications, hosting

What ManageEngine OpManager's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: manageengine.com/itom/spiceworks-opmanager.html, store.manageengine.com/opmanager/opm-subscription.html, manageengine.com/network-monitoring/manageengine-opmanager-vs-solarwinds-vs-prtg.html, manageengine.com/network-monitoring/manageengine-opmanager-vs-solarwinds-vs-nagios.html, manageengine.com/dns-dhcp-ipam/ManageEngine-OpManager-Plus-DDI-Central-integration.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 OpManager'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 OpManager, 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 OpManager by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where ManageEngine OpManager 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 OpManager, 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 ManageEngine OpManager 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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ManageEngine OpManager is among the products AI models recommend first in Network monitoring and management 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.

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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.