Every category where a model named RackTables 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
Data center infrastructure management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	62 of 103	44%	9	under 10 labels · led by Sunbird DCIM at 27%

Movement

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

By model

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

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Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labels1

Comparative8 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.

“An open-source solution for managing racks, servers, and network equipment, suitable for budget-conscious organizations” Mistral Small · DCIM · budget prompt · alternative

“RackTables is an older, battle-tested open-source option designed to document hardware assets.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DCIM · budget prompt · alternative

“The Best for Physical Layouts: RackTables ... is a classic solution.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DCIM · budget prompt · alternative

“RackTables - simplest small server room” Muse Glimmer 30B · DCIM · 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.

“Very dated interface and architecture... not for modern infrastructure management.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DCIM · negative prompt · hard negative

“legacy versions of RackTables are excellent for home labs... they carry significant risks for larger enterprise operations” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DCIM · negative prompt · soft negative

“require more technical expertise to implement” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DCIM · comparative prompt · soft negative

“Cons: Older codebase, less active development” Kimi K2 · DCIM · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as RackTables, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and RackTables was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

openDCIM25 of 316Not among the top eight

NetBox24 of 3117Not among the top eight

Nlyte DCIM13 of 311Not among the top eight

Device4212 of 310Not among the top eight

Hyperview11 of 312Not among the top eight

Schneider Electric EcoStruxure IT11 of 310Not among the top eight

Sunbird DCIM8 of 312Not among the top eight

ManageEngine OpManager7 of 312Not among the top eight

Sunbird dcTrack7 of 312Not among the top eight

Vertiv Trellis4 of 310Not among the top eight

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 RackTables. 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 29 of the 31 answers that named RackTables and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

motadata.com21

fluxbilling.app16

parse.gl14

dcgeeks.com13

datacenterknowledge.com12

g2.com12

sisgain.com12

zipdo.co12

gitnux.org11

thectoclub.com11

No domain is on file for RackTables, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

motadata.com/blog/data-center-infrastructure-management-tools21

fluxbilling.app/blog/best-dcim-software-hosting-providers16

dcgeeks.com/dcim-software-guide13

parse.gl/prompts/p/what-is-the-best-data-center-infrastructure-management-dcim-software-fo13

sisgain.com/blogs/data-center-infrastructure-management-dcim-guide12

geekflare.com/cloud/dcim-software10

netboxlabs.com/blog/open-source-dcim-tools9

virima.com/blog/best-dcim-software9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where RackTables stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 390 a month (“racktables”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 4 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 62 of 103 in DCIM

Segment leader

27%

Sunbird DCIM

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 31 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.

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where RackTables 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 RackTables, 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.