Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 24 → 5 of 78
2 categories · RankednOps
36Judge labels
5First choices
1Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
3% in FinOps for small business buyers
Rank 6 of 76 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 13 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of nOps →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business6 of 83
3%12 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market6 of 76
3%13 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise8 of 73
2%7 labels
under the label threshold
In finops · 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 nOps 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud cost management | Cloud and infrastructure | 3% | 6 of 76 | 0% | 13 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| IT financial management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 56 of 159 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9% |
Movement
Since September 2026, nOps held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · FinOps · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 8 → 6 of 70
Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 13 → 8 of 71
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FinOps | 2% | 4% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 2% → 4%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 8 → 6 of 76 |
| IT financial mgmt | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 56 of 159, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated nOps across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated nOps across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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
Direct6 labels2
Paraphrase3 labels1
Comparative10 labelsNone
Budget-constrained5 labels2
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative36 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 5 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.
“Start with nOps if you are heavily AWS-focused and want automated spot-instance management.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · FinOps · direct prompt · first choice
“nOps (for broader cloud cost management)... highly rated for small to mid-market companies” Mistral Small · FinOps · budget prompt · first choice
“nOps / Vantage | Cost-effective options for mid-size AWS-centric orgs | May lack enterprise-grade features” DeepSeek V4 Flash · FinOps · scale prompt · alternative
“You need a FinOps / Cloud Cost Optimization platform like Finout, nOps, or CloudZero.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IT financial mgmt · scale 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 nOps, over the 36 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and nOps was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as nOps, over the 36 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and nOps was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 nOps. 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 36 of the 36 answers that named nOps and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cloudaware.com27
nops.ioYour site23
cloudzero.com20
amnic.com15
openmetal.io14
finout.io13
cloudbolt.io10
g2.com10
spendark.com9
costanalyst.ai8
126 of the 149 domain citations in answers naming nOps came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
nops.io ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, nOps takes 3% of first choices and Vantage takes 45%.ShowHide
Search and answers
nops.io ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, nOps takes 3% of first choices and Vantage takes 45%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cloud cost management platform”
7
Position for “cloud cost management platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 12,100 a month (“nops”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 415 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 27,991 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 4,773 · 178 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,761
- Paid Google search
- 3 searches its ads show for, about 32 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
3%
rank 6 of 76 in finops
Segment leader
45%
Vantage
- First choices
- 5 across its categories
- Named in
- 36 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 36 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on nops.io
1,203
subdomains included
Content
692
counted in the table below
Documentation
220
Product · Integration
4 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 512 | undated | FinOps, IaC | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 63 | undated | ETL | ||
| Comparison | 59 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 34 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 17 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 4 | undated | |||
| Case study | 1 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page nops.io 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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow nOps
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
nOps is its own company.ShowHide
The company
nOps is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Automated Cost Optimization Platform
- For
- For FinOps; For Engineering; For Finance
- Price stated
- Pay only for results. nops.io
- Free plan or trial
- FREE SAVINGS ANALYSIS nops.io
- Certifications
- Advanced technology partner AWSG2 4.8 ratingFinOps Foundation member
- Customers named
- CommentSoldKurtosysArloBENlabsVermegGlookoAcademia.eduEnter
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, integrations, hosting
What nOps's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: nops.io, nops.io/pricing, nops.io/product/cost-reporting, nops.io/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 nOps'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 nOps, 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 nOps by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where nOps 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 nOps, 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.