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1 category · Named, not ranked

OptScale

1Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

1 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. OptScale was named 1 time in FinOps, where Vantage led with 54%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market46 of 79

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 OptScale 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
Cloud cost management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	46 of 79	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 54%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for OptScale 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 OptScale across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative1 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Choose OptScale or Komiser if you want 100% free, cross-cloud tracking” Gemini 3.5 Flash · FinOps · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as OptScale, over the 1 answer that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and OptScale was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Pump1 of 11Not in the top three

Vantage1 of 11Not in the top three

AWS Cost Explorer & Budgets1 of 10Not in the top three

Google Cloud Billing1 of 10Not in the top three

Infracost1 of 10Not in the top three

Komiser1 of 10Not in the top three

Kubecost1 of 10Not in the top three

Microsoft Cost Management1 of 10Not in the top three

OpenCost1 of 10Not in the top three

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth1 of 10Not 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.

Names read as OptScale

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

OptScale (by Hystax) 1

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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 OptScale'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 OptScale, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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 optscale.ai is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.