Small business=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 41 of 42, unchanged
1 category · RankedPuppet
46Judge labels
0First choices
29Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in IaC for mid-market buyers
Rank 59 of 59 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 73% of its 15 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Puppet →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business46 of 47
0%12 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market59 of 59
0%15 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise67 of 69
0%19 labels
criticized challenger
In iac · 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 Puppet 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 as code | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 59 of 59 | 73% | 15 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Puppet held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · IaC · by segment
Mid-market=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 41 → 51 of 51
Enterprise▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 7 → 56 of 57
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IaC | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 41 → 59 of 59 |
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 Puppet 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 Puppet 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 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
Direct5 labelsNone
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative11 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative26 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative46 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.
“Ansible, Chef or Puppet remain dominant” Muse Glimmer 30B · IaC · comparative 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.
“using them to provision cloud-native resources ... is a massive anti-pattern” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative
“Puppet and Chef (Strongly Caution: Consider Avoiding for New Projects)” Grok 4.20 · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative
“Puppet (Declining) - Considered declining in the IaC landscape” MiniMax M2.5 · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Chef/Puppet; choose Ansible or Terraform.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · IaC · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Puppet, over the 46 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Puppet was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Puppet, over the 46 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Puppet 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 Puppet. 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 44 of the 46 answers that named Puppet and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pulumi.com27
spacelift.io23
checkthat.ai19
guideflow.com18
claranet.com15
trendmicro.com15
sentinelone.com14
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com12
facets.cloud12
gartsolutions.com12
167 of the 167 domain citations in answers naming Puppet came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
puppet.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Puppet takes 0% of first choices and Terraform takes 57%.ShowHide
Search and answers
puppet.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Puppet takes 0% of first choices and Terraform takes 57%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “infrastructure-as-code tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “infrastructure-as-code tools”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 90,500 a month (“puppet”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 48,793 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 20,996 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 3,430 · 303 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 11,675
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 59 of 59 in iac
Segment leader
57%
Terraform
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 46 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 44 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 puppet.com
830
subdomains included
Content
487
counted in the table below
Documentation
11
Product · Integration
32 · 16
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 305 | 10 | 2026-09-28 | Patching, IaC | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 53 | undated | |||
| Case study | 44 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 43 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 19 | 2 | 2026-09-18 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 11 | 0 | 2026-04-14 | IaC | |
| Conference or event | 9 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 2 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Trusted infrastructure sovereign ai blog
- 2026-09-24Soci compliance blog
- 2026-09-18Chef vs puppet fact check chef 360 comparison comparison
- 2026-09-01Puppet vs chef comparison
- 2026-08-26Solve compliance challenges blog
- 2026-08-21Financial services continuous compliance blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page puppet.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 Puppet
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Puppet; a claim can dispute any of them.
Chef / Puppet 1
Follow Puppet
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
Puppet is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Puppet is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Perforce Puppet is the leading modern infrastructure ops platform for automation, configuration management, DevSecOps, compliance, CI/CD, patching & more.
- For
- DevOps teams
- Price stated
- Free; Custom; Contact Sales puppet.com/pricing
- Starting price
- Free puppet.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Developer puppet.com/pricing
- Customers named
- Ambit EnergyANZ BankFannie MaeTransurban1-800-FlowersathenahealthCERNDaiwa Capital
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What Puppet's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: puppet.com, puppet.com/pricing, puppet.com/security, puppet.com/products/puppet-core, puppet.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
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 Puppet'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 Puppet, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Puppet by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Puppet 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 Puppet, 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.