Small business▲+8Since September 2026: 6% → 14%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
14%from 6% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 7 → 3 of 72
4 categories · RankedPaessler PRTG
81Judge labels
12First choices
14Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
14% in Infra monitoring for small business buyers
Rank 7 of 79 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 13% of its 23 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Paessler PRTG →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business2 of 74
14%36 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market7 of 79
4%23 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise67 of 70
0%11 labels
criticized challenger
In infra monitoring · 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 Paessler PRTG 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 4% | 7 of 79 | 13% | 23 | accepted challenger | ▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Data center infrastructure management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 81 of 103 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Sunbird DCIM at 27% | |
| AIOps platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 68 of 93 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 17% | |
| Website and synthetic monitoring | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 61 of 67 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by UptimeRobot at 24% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Paessler PRTG held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Infra monitoring · by segment
Mid-market▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
5%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 13 → 7 of 69
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 54 → 63 of 65
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infra monitoring | 0% | 5% | ▲+5Since September 2026: 0% → 5%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 13 → 7 of 79 |
| DCIM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 81 of 103, unchanged |
| AIOps | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 68 of 93, unchanged |
| Uptime monitoring | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 61 of 67, 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 Paessler PRTG 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 Paessler PRTG 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 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 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
Direct16 labels7
Paraphrase10 labels3
Comparative21 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained14 labels2
Scale-constrained6 labelsNone
Negative14 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative81 labels in all, every segment counted; 12 of the 16 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.
“PRTG - If you want a more established tool with a free version and willing to scale up later” MiniMax M2.5 · Infra monitoring · budget prompt · first choice
“the best *default* choice is usually PRTG Network Monitor” Perplexity Sonar · Infra monitoring · direct prompt · first choice
“Paessler PRTG is a strong alternative because it offers a free tier up to 100 sensors” Perplexity Sonar · Infra monitoring · budget prompt · alternative
“Simple SMB networks ... Easy setup, no complexity overwhelm. | Limited cloud/app focus.” Grok 4.20 · Infra monitoring · paraphrase 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.
“Paessler PRTG is not well-suited for cloud-native or container-heavy environments.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative
“Limited to 100 sensors in the free tier ... paid tier can get expensive ... the UI feels dated” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative
“the 2024 shift to subscription pricing has raised its cost profile at scale.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Uptime monitoring · direct prompt · soft negative
“user-friendly but limits scale without buying (~$1,750 for 500 sensors)” Grok 4.20 · Infra monitoring · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Paessler PRTG, over the 81 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Paessler PRTG was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Paessler PRTG, over the 81 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Paessler PRTG 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 Paessler PRTG. 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 80 of the 81 answers that named Paessler PRTG and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
motadata.com54
comparitech.com36
netdata.cloud36
uptrace.dev31
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com27
g2.com27
gartsolutions.com25
newrelic.com25
signoz.io24
middleware.io23
308 of the 308 domain citations in answers naming Paessler PRTG came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
paessler.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Paessler PRTG takes 4% of first choices and Datadog takes 28%.ShowHide
Search and answers
paessler.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Paessler PRTG takes 4% of first choices and Datadog takes 28%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “infrastructure monitoring tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “infrastructure monitoring tools”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 390 a month (“paessler prtg”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 14 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 107,237 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 12,432 · 876 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 9,224
- Paid Google search
- 4 searches its ads show for, about 139 clicks and $12,945 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 7 of 79 in infra monitoring
Segment leader
28%
Datadog
- First choices
- 12 across its categories
- Named in
- 81 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 80 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 paessler.com
6,460
subdomains included
Content
1,538
counted in the table below
Documentation
71
Product · Integration
8 · 57
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,209 | 13 | 2026-09-28 | CDN, Infra monitoring | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 130 | 0 | 2025-11-24 | ||
| Case study | 74 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 70 | 0 | 2026-03-25 | RMM | |
| News or press | 23 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 13 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 12 | 0 | 2026-03-18 | Infra monitoring | |
| Conference or event | 3 | 0 | 2018-04-06 | ||
| Report or ebook | 2 | 0 | 2017-09-29 | ||
| Podcast or video | 2 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page paessler.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. 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.
Names read as Paessler PRTG
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Paessler PRTG; a claim can dispute any of them.
PRTG Network Monitor 13PRTG 6PRTG (Free Tier) 1
Follow Paessler PRTG
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.
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The company
Paessler PRTG is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Paessler PRTG is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Complete Network Monitoring. Zero Blind Spots.
- For
- teams from small teams to global enterprises; small to mid-market, enterprise & distributed IT, and managed service providers
- Price stated
- Pricing paessler.com
- Starting price
- $179 per month paessler.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- FREE TRIAL paessler.com
- Customers named
- Zurich AirportTAFJORDJena University HospitalLeica Geosystems AGSkyscannerIntegrated Precision SystemsDr. Erler Kliniken
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What Paessler PRTG's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: paessler.com, paessler.com/pricing, paessler.com/monitoring/security, paessler.com/prtg/features/alerts, paessler.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Paessler PRTG'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 Paessler PRTG, 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 Paessler PRTG by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Paessler PRTG 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 Paessler PRTG, 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.