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
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	13 of 65	12%	16	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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

Direct9 labels2

Paraphrase8 labelsNone

Comparative17 labelsNone

Budget-constrained7 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative11 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative53 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 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.

“if your team wants a more SMB-friendly, cost-conscious tool with straightforward server/network monitoring” Perplexity Sonar · Infra monitoring · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best network-first monitoring: PRTG, SolarWinds, or ManageEngine OpManager.” Perplexity Sonar · Infra monitoring · comparative prompt · alternative

“If you need simplicity: Paessler PRTG free tier is great for small environments” MiniMax M2.5 · Infra monitoring · budget prompt · alternative

“Prefers a low-cost, managed solution with support | PRTG” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Infra monitoring · 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.

“Legacy "All-in-One" Suites (e.g., PRTG, ManageEngine, older Nagios versions)... deserve caution.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Infra monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

“the free tier is limited and scaling can become pricier than open-source” Perplexity Sonar · Infra monitoring · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Paessler PRTG, over the 53 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zabbix44 of 536Not in the top three

Datadog43 of 538Not in the top three

New Relic33 of 532Not in the top three

Site24x727 of 537Not in the top three

Netdata25 of 537Not in the top three

Dynatrace24 of 534Not in the top three

Prometheus + Grafana23 of 532Not in the top three

Nagios21 of 530Not in the top three

Grafana11 of 533Not in the top three

Prometheus10 of 531Not 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 Paessler PRTG. 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 53 of the 53 answers that named Paessler PRTG and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gartner.com43

netdata.cloud40

middleware.io30

gartsolutions.com24

comparitech.com22

motadata.com21

learn.g2.com18

newrelic.com17

clickhouse.com15

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com14

244 of the 244 domain citations in answers naming Paessler PRTG came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gartner.com/reviews/market/infrastructure-monitoring-tools43

netdata.cloud/resources/best-infrastructure-monitoring-tools40

middleware.io/blog/infrastructure-monitoring-tools30

gartsolutions.com/best-it-infrastructure-monitoring-software23

comparitech.com/net-admin/infrastructure-monitoring21

motadata.com/blog/best-it-infrastructure-monitoring-tools20

learn.g2.com/cloud-monitoring-tools17

clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/top-infrastructure-monitoring-tools-comparison15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 12

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