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Scout APM

29Judge labels
4First choices
5Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in APM for small business buyers
Rank 11 of 70 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 3 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In apm · 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 Scout APM 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Application performance monitoringIT operations and endpoint2%11 of 700%3under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 54%
Error and crash monitoringDeveloper platform0%42 of 44100%2under 10 labels · led by Sentry at 82%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Scout APM 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 Scout APM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501001
GPT-5.4 mini00101
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar10001
Grok 4.1 Fast00011
Mistral Small00011
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct1 label1
Paraphrase1 label1
Comparative8 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained6 labels2
Scale-constrained2 labelsNone
Negative11 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 10 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.

“or Scout Monitoring if you want a very low-cost paid plan built for small teams” Perplexity Sonar · APM · budget prompt · first choice
“Atatus or Scout APM provide good comprehensive coverage in the low-cost paid tier” Claude Haiku 4.5 · APM · 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.

“Avoid Scout APM if you need frontend JavaScript error tracking” Mistral Small · Error monitoring · negative prompt · hard negative
“Compatibility limits (Ruby-focused; weak on Java/Go/.NET), missing features, high pricing.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Error monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Scout APM, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Scout APM was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
New Relic24 of 297Not in the top three
Datadog23 of 292Not in the top three
Sentry18 of 294Not in the top three
AppSignal13 of 290Not in the top three
SigNoz11 of 290Not in the top three
Dynatrace10 of 291Not in the top three
AppDynamics10 of 290Not in the top three
Grafana Cloud7 of 291Not in the top three
Honeybadger6 of 291Not in the top three
Elastic APM4 of 290Not 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 Scout APM. 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 26 of the 29 answers that named Scout APM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

scoutapm.comYour site23
g2.com15
newrelic.com14
rollbar.com14
openobserve.ai13
cubeapm.com11
drizz.dev9
reveillesoftware.com9
atatus.com8
instatus.com8

101 of the 124 domain citations in answers naming Scout APM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Scout APM

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Scout APM; a claim can dispute any of them.
Scout Monitoring 1
Is this your product?

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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 Scout APM'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 Scout APM, 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 scoutapm.com 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.

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