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Snipe-IT

110Judge labels
31First choices
22Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
41% in ITAM for small business buyers
Rank 1 of 61 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 17% of its 42 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.
In itam · 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 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
IT asset managementIT operations and endpoint24%1 of 6117%42accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Snipe-IT 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 Snipe-IT across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.511215
GPT-5.4 mini11002
Gemini 3.5 Flash11125
Perplexity Sonar10113
Grok 4.1 Fast12003
Mistral Small00123
DeepSeek V4 Flash21003
Llama 4 Maverick10113
Qwen 3.7 Flash11103
Kimi K222004
GLM 4.7 FlashX13105
MiniMax M2.503003

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
Direct12 labels3
Paraphrase19 labels7
Comparative22 labels8not counted in share
Budget-constrained24 labels20
Scale-constrained14 labels1
Negative19 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative110 labels in all, every segment counted; 31 of the 41 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.

“the strongest default choice is usually Snipe-IT because it is repeatedly described as the best *free or low-cost* option” Perplexity Sonar · ITAM · budget prompt · first choice
“For the absolute lowest cost, Snipe-IT (free self-hosted) or Spiceworks (free with ads) are excellent choices.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ITAM · budget prompt · first choice
“Snipe-IT (Best Overall Free Option) ... It's the most mature, well-supported open-source option with no limits.” Kimi K2 · ITAM · budget prompt · first choice
“the best IT asset management (ITAM) platform is Snipe-IT's free, self-hosted open-source version” Grok 4.1 Fast · 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.

“Some users in the sysadmin community have expressed dissatisfaction with Snipe-IT and recommend avoiding it” Mistral Small · ITAM · negative prompt · hard negative
“Great if you have the internal resources to host and customize it, though it lacks deep out-of-the-box SaaS discovery.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · ITAM · scale prompt · soft negative
“tools like Snipe-IT and GLPI track licenses in terms of assigned seats but neither tool meters real usage” Claude Haiku 4.5 · ITAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“some platforms to be cautious about include: 1. Snipe-it (as mentioned in one of the search results)” Llama 4 Maverick · ITAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Snipe-IT, over the 110 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.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Lansweeper55 of 1106Not in the top three
ServiceNow IT Asset Management51 of 1106Not in the top three
Asset Panda45 of 1101Not in the top three
InvGate Asset Management27 of 1101Not in the top three
Flexera One26 of 1101Not in the top three
NinjaOne24 of 1104Not in the top three
Ivanti Neurons for ITAM24 of 1100Not in the top three
Rippling IT20 of 1106Not 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 Snipe-IT. 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 85 of the 110 answers that named Snipe-IT and are not a share of its labels.

Names read as Snipe-IT

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Snipe-IT; a claim can dispute any of them.
Snipe‑IT 2Snipe-it 1
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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.

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 snipeitapp.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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