Every category where a model named Snipe-IT 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
IT asset management	IT operations and endpoint	25%	2 of 82	18%	40	accepted challenger	=heldSince September 2026: 24% → 24%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
IT documentation	IT operations and endpoint	0%	19 of 92	0%	5	under 10 labels · led by Hudu at 17%
IT financial management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	54 of 159	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9%

Movement

Since September 2026, Snipe-IT held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · ITAM · by segment

Small business▲+7Since September 2026: 41% → 48%, +7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

48%from 41% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 1 of 67, unchanged

Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 24% → 24%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

24%from 24% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 1 → 2 of 75

Enterprise▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

2%from 0% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 78 → 12 of 85

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
ITAM	24%	24%	=heldSince September 2026: 24% → 24%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 1 → 2 of 82
IT documentation	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 19 of 92, unchanged
IT financial mgmt	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 54 of 159, 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 Snipe-IT across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	0	1	4
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	4	0	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	1	1	4
Grok 4.20	1	0	1	2	4
Mistral Small	1	0	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	2	1	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	5	1	0	7
Kimi K2	1	2	0	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	1	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	0	3
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	1	1	4

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

Direct14 labels5

Paraphrase32 labels9

Comparative20 labels11not counted in share

Budget-constrained33 labels28

Scale-constrained15 labels2

Negative23 labels4not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative137 labels in all, every segment counted; 44 of the 59 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.

“Snipe-IT is the most frequently cited budget choice... If you have technical staff and want $0 ongoing license cost, self-host Snipe-IT.” Muse Glimmer 30B · ITAM · budget prompt · first choice

“Highly recommended for small IT departments with basic tracking needs. The self-hosted version is completely free” Mistral Small · ITAM · budget prompt · first choice

“Snipe-IT is widely considered the best free IT Asset Management system on the market.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ITAM · budget prompt · first choice

“Snipe-IT is widely considered the best option for budget-conscious organizations.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ITAM · budget prompt · first choice

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.

“beloved for its simplicity, but it lacks built-in discovery agents \u2014 you must manually add assets or build integrations” DeepSeek V4 Flash · ITAM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Avoid open-source like Snipe-IT unless you're resource-constrained (it's free but requires more setup/maintenance)” Grok 4.20 · ITAM · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“may be a poor fit for large enterprises, deep ITSM workflows, advanced automation, asset discovery” Perplexity Sonar · ITAM · negative prompt · soft negative

“"I will always have my reservations about SnipeIT... it lacks inherent automation capabilities."” Muse Glimmer 30B · ITAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Snipe-IT, over the 137 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Snipe-IT was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Freshservice68 of 13712Compare →

ManageEngine AssetExplorer62 of 1373Compare →

Lansweeper60 of 1376Compare →

ServiceNow IT Asset Management51 of 1379Not among the top eight

Asset Panda39 of 1371Not among the top eight

GLPI30 of 1370Not among the top eight

NinjaOne28 of 1372Not among the top eight

Flexera One IT Asset Management24 of 1373Not among the top eight

InvGate Asset Management24 of 1370Compare →

Spiceworks Inventory20 of 1370Not 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 Snipe-IT. 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 125 of the 137 answers that named Snipe-IT and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

virima.com61

blog.invgate.com58

desk365.io54

rippling.com44

g2.com43

resources.rework.com40

ezo.io36

thectoclub.com34

freshworks.com33

assetpanda.com32

435 of the 435 domain citations in answers naming Snipe-IT came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

desk365.io/blog/it-asset-management-software52

virima.com/blog/top-asset-management-tools-you-need-to-know-about45

resources.rework.com/tools/it-management/best-it-asset-management-software-202640

rippling.com/blog/best-it-asset-management-small-business34

assetpanda.com/resource-center/compare/best-it-asset-management-software-top-itam-platform29

thectoclub.com/tools/best-it-asset-management-software29

ezo.io/assetsonar/blog/best-it-management-software28

blog.invgate.com/it-asset-management-software27

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

snipeitapp.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Snipe-IT takes 25% of first choices and Freshservice takes 31%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “it asset management platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “it asset management platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 5,400 a month (“snipe-it”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 13,860 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 6,867 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 219 · 90 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 1,799
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

25%

rank 2 of 82 in ITAM

Segment leader

31%

Freshservice

First choices: 44 across its categories
Named in: 137 answers
Its own site cited: in 125 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.

Follow Snipe-IT

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

Snipe-IT is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: a free, open source IT asset management system
snipeitapp.com
Price stated: 39.99 snipeitapp.com
Starting price: 39.99 snipeitapp.com
Free plan or trial: Free Forever snipeitapp.com
Hosting: OregonN. VirginiaSao PauloIrelandLondonFrankfurtSingaporeSeoul
Customers named: East Carter County R-II School DistrictMicrosoftChurch of the Highlands
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, integrations, certifications

What Snipe-IT's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: snipeitapp.com. 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 Snipe-IT'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 Snipe-IT, 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 Snipe-IT by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Snipe-IT 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 Snipe-IT, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Snipe-IT is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Snipe-IT is among the products AI models recommend first in IT asset management this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/it-asset-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/snipe-it--it-asset-management-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in IT asset management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the IT asset management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/it-asset-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/snipe-it--it-asset-management-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in IT asset management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the IT asset management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/it-asset-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/snipe-it--it-asset-management-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in IT asset management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the IT asset management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.