Every category where a model named MikroTik CRS Series 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
Data center networking	Network and edge	2%	24 of 165	50%	4	under 10 labels · led by Arista Networks at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for MikroTik CRS Series 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 MikroTik CRS Series 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	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained10 labels3

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“Tightest Budget | MikroTik or White Box + SONiC | Lowest upfront cost” Kimi K2 · Data center networking · budget prompt · first choice

“MikroTik CRS series for lowest capex” Muse Glimmer 30B · Data center networking · 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.

“These are *not* enterprise-grade data center switches... They also lack the deep packet buffering and complex EVPN-VXLAN features” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Data center networking · budget prompt · soft negative

“Not truly data center-grade — limited buffering, weaker QoS, no true spine-leaf support” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Data center networking · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as MikroTik CRS Series, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and MikroTik CRS Series was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ubiquiti UniFi8 of 151Not among the top eight

Arista Networks8 of 150Not among the top eight

Cisco Nexus6 of 150Not among the top eight

Edgecore4 of 151Not among the top eight

Aruba Instant On4 of 150Not among the top eight

Aruba CX3 of 150Not among the top eight

Celestica3 of 150Not among the top eight

Cisco Meraki3 of 150Not among the top eight

Juniper Networks3 of 150Not among the top eight

Netgear3 of 150Not 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 MikroTik CRS Series. 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 14 of the 15 answers that named MikroTik CRS Series and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cisco.com8

peerspot.com8

linkedin.com6

mikrotik.comYour site5

networkdevicesinc.com5

reddit.com5

router-switch.com5

us.fitgap.com5

alibaba.com4

arista.com4

Fifty of the fifty-five domain citations in answers naming MikroTik CRS Series came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

networkdevicesinc.com/community/blog/best-switches-for-data-centers5

us.fitgap.com/search/data-center-networking-solutions/small-business5

alibaba.com/product-insights/huawei-switching-platform.html4

esim.holafly.com/digital-nomad/data-center-networking-solutions4

gartner.com/reviews/market/data-center-switching4

kiddofspeed.com/best-enterprise-network-switches-brands4

mikrotik.com/products/group/switches4

technologymatch.com/blog/cisco-vs-aruba-vs-arista-which-network-infrastructure-vendor-shou4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

mikrotik.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, MikroTik CRS Series takes 2% of first choices and Arista Networks takes 27%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “data center switching platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “data center networking platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 10 a month (“mikrotik crs series”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 41,064 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 10,681 · 1,031 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 21,734
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 24 of 165 in data center networking

Segment leader

27%

Arista Networks

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 15 answers
Its own site cited: in 14 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 mikrotik.com

2,956

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

1,448

Product · Integration

645 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Template or tool	62	undated
News or press	4	0	2026-06-12
Blog	3	undated
Glossary or explainer	2	undated
Report or ebook	1	undated

Most recent

2026-06-12News133 news or press
2026-04-22News132 news or press
2026-01-13News131 news or press
2025-12-04News130 news or press

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page mikrotik.com 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. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as MikroTik CRS Series

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

MikroTik 3

Follow MikroTik CRS Series

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

MikroTik CRS Series is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Price stated: Suggested price $6.00 mikrotik.com/product/QM
Not stated on the pages read: Positioning, who it is for, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What MikroTik CRS Series's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: mikrotik.com, mikrotik.com/product/QM. 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 MikroTik CRS Series'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 MikroTik CRS Series, 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 MikroTik CRS Series by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where MikroTik CRS Series 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 MikroTik CRS Series, 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.