openDCIM
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data center infrastructure management | IT operations and endpoint | 8% | 5 of 103 | 22% | 23 | accepted challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated openDCIM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Opendcim is the strongest fit if your company mainly needs basic rack elevation and asset tracking” Perplexity Sonar · DCIM · budget prompt · first choice
“openDCIM is strongly recommended as it offers core DCIM functionality without any licensing costs” MiniMax M2.5 · DCIM · budget prompt · first choice
“the most pragmatic choice today is openDCIM—a free, open‑source DCIM application” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DCIM · budget prompt · first choice
“NetBox or openDCIM would be your best choices” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DCIM · 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.
“Best for simple inventory tracking only — not for serious production-grade DCIM needs.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DCIM · negative prompt · hard negative
“Open-source alternatives like OpenDCIM, NetBox, and RackTables provide core functionality without licensing fees but require more technical expertise to implement” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DCIM · comparative prompt · soft negative
“I’d avoid relying on it for critical operations unless you’re prepared to maintain a fork or have a credible support plan.” GPT-6 Luna · DCIM · negative prompt · soft negative
“Tools like openDCIM are largely static, 2D database-mapping tools” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DCIM · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as openDCIM, over the 79 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and openDCIM was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 77 of the 79 answers that named openDCIM and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
350 of the 350 domain citations in answers naming openDCIM came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
opendcim.org is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, openDCIM takes 8% of first choices and Sunbird DCIM takes 27%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 210 a month (“opendcim”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 0 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 213 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 43 · 5 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 366
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 14 across its categories
- Named in
- 79 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 77 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 openDCIM
Follow openDCIM
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
openDCIM is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- a free, web based Data Center Infrastructure Management application
- Price stated
- free opendcim.org
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What openDCIM's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: opendcim.org. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 openDCIM'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 openDCIM, 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 openDCIM by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where openDCIM 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 openDCIM, 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.