Every category where a model named Men&Mice 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%	10 of 115	10%	10	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Men&Mice 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 Men&Mice 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	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	1	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	1	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 labels2

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained9 labels2

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 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.

“likely to be SolarWinds or Men&Mice, as they offer a good balance between professional visibility and cost” Llama 4 Maverick · DDI and IPAM · direct prompt · first choice

“I'd pick Men&Mice / Micetro for a typical mid-market B2B company” Perplexity Sonar · DDI and IPAM · direct prompt · first choice

“Orchestrates existing DNS/DHCP (MS, open-source) rather than replacing; cost-effective” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDI and IPAM · scale prompt · alternative

“Modular, API-driven solutions that excel in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.” Mistral Small · DDI and IPAM · comparative 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.

“I'm being a bit careful here: I didn't pull a current official Men & Mice page in this search” GPT-5.4 mini · DDI and IPAM · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Men&Mice, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Men&Mice was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BlueCat Integrity21 of 265Not among the top eight

EfficientIP SOLIDserver20 of 263Not among the top eight

Infoblox19 of 267Not among the top eight

SolarWinds IP Address Manager14 of 261Not among the top eight

Infoblox Universal DDI4 of 262Not among the top eight

Micetro4 of 261Not among the top eight

phpIPAM4 of 261Not among the top eight

FusionLayer4 of 260Not among the top eight

Microsoft DNS/DHCP4 of 260Not among the top eight

ManageEngine OpUtils3 of 261Not 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 Men&Mice. 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 23 of the 26 answers that named Men&Mice and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bluecatnetworks.com14

us.fitgap.com13

devopsschool.com11

infoblox.com11

itechguides.com10

blog.domotz.com9

peerspot.com9

rfp.wiki9

scmgalaxy.com9

g2.com8

No domain is on file for Men&Mice, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison10

blog.domotz.com/all/ipam-solutions9

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

peerspot.com/categories/ddi7

scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison7

us.fitgap.com/search/ddi-management-platform7

us.fitgap.com/search/ddi-management-platform/enterprise7

itechguides.com/best/ddi-management-platform6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Men&Mice 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: not counted (“men&mice”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 8,767 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 10 of 115 in DDI and IPAM

Segment leader

15%

BlueCat Micetro

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 26 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

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 Men&Mice

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

Men & Mice 1Men & Mice (Micetro) 1Men & Mice (now part of BT Diamond IP) 1Men&Mice Suite 1Micetro / Men&Mice 1

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

where Men&Mice 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 Men&Mice, 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.