Every category where a model named OpenTofu 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
Infrastructure as code	Cloud and infrastructure	39%	2 of 46	0%	49	endorsed leader

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for OpenTofu yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated OpenTofu across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	2	1	1	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	6	0	0	6
Perplexity Sonar	2	2	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	3	3	0	6
Mistral Small	1	2	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	2	0	5
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	1	1	4
Kimi K2	4	2	0	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	2	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	0	3

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

Direct21 labels11

Paraphrase18 labels10

Comparative29 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained30 labels26

Scale-constrained19 labels5

Negative18 labels13not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative135 labels in all, every segment counted; 52 of the 70 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.

“If you require strict open-source guarantees (OSI-approved), consider OpenTofu, which is an established community-led fork of Terraform under the MPL 2.0 license.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · first choice

“OpenTofu | Seamless migration from old Terraform, open-source MPL 2.0 license, and fast-paced community innovation.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · scale prompt · first choice

“the best infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool is OpenTofu (or Terraform), specifically when self-hosted” Qwen 3.7 Flash · IaC · budget prompt · first choice

“If you want a single practical default, I’d pick OpenTofu for a mid-sized B2B company starting fresh” Perplexity Sonar · IaC · paraphrase 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as OpenTofu, over the 135 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and OpenTofu was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Terraform134 of 13553Compare →

Pulumi126 of 13512Compare →

AWS CloudFormation74 of 1350Not in the top three

Ansible71 of 1351Not in the top three

AWS CDK60 of 1351Not in the top three

Crossplane50 of 1351Not in the top three

Spacelift36 of 1351Not in the top three

Azure Bicep32 of 1350Not in the top three

Puppet32 of 1350Not in the top three

Chef25 of 1350Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. 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 OpenTofu. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 106 of the 135 answers that named OpenTofu and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

pulumi.com71

apiiro.com62

guideflow.com54

spacelift.io52

checkthat.ai50

cortex.io45

devtoollab.com33

devopsplatforms.com31

toolradar.com31

firefly.ai29

458 of the 458 domain citations in answers naming OpenTofu came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

apiiro.com/blog/best-iac-tools62

pulumi.com/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools61

guideflow.com/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools54

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-infrastructure-as-code-tools47

cortex.io/post/best-infrastructure-as-code-iac-tools45

spacelift.io/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools36

devtoollab.com/blog/best-infrastructure-as-code-tools33

devopsplatforms.com/buying-guides/best-iac-tools28

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at opentofu.org is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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