Every category where a model named SolarWinds IP Address Manager 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
DDI and IP address management	Network and edge	13%	2 of 115	18%	39	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SolarWinds IP Address Manager 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 SolarWinds IP Address Manager 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	0	3	0	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1	2	4
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	3	0	1	4
Mistral Small	1	0	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	0	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	2	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	1	0	1	4
Kimi K2	0	4	0	1	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	2	1	0	0	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	0	0	2

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

Direct17 labels5

Paraphrase27 labels5

Comparative17 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained13 labels5

Scale-constrained5 labels2

Negative20 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative99 labels in all, every segment counted; 17 of the 24 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.

“SolarWinds is often seen as a mid-range option that is cheaper than enterprise giants like Infoblox but more powerful than basic tools.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DDI and IPAM · budget prompt · first choice

“I would recommend SolarWinds IP Address Manager. It is one of the most widely deployed standalone IPAM platforms in the mid-market” Mistral Small · DDI and IPAM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“The best DDI platform for a mid-market B2B company is likely to be SolarWinds or Men&Mice” Llama 4 Maverick · DDI and IPAM · direct prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend starting with ManageEngine OpUtils or SolarWinds IP Address Manager” MiniMax M2.5 · DDI and IPAM · paraphrase 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.

“High Caution: SolarWinds ... The 2020 SUNBURST supply chain attack compromised SolarWinds Orion software” Kimi K2 · DDI and IPAM · negative prompt · hard negative

“Move away from SolarWinds (due to security history) and proprietary hardware-only vendors.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · DDI and IPAM · negative prompt · hard negative

“avoid or heavily scrutinize: Under-featured overlays (like SolarWinds or MS IPAM)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DDI and IPAM · negative prompt · hard negative

“it's the platform I'd most strongly advise you to do a thorough POC (proof of concept) on before committing.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · DDI and IPAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds IP Address Manager, over the 99 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SolarWinds IP Address Manager was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

BlueCat Integrity66 of 995Compare →

Infoblox55 of 9914Not among the top eight

EfficientIP SOLIDserver48 of 992Compare →

phpIPAM40 of 994Compare →

ManageEngine OpUtils26 of 999Compare →

NetBox23 of 992Compare →

Micetro17 of 993Compare →

Infoblox Universal DDI14 of 994Not among the top eight

Men&Mice14 of 992Not among the top eight

ManageEngine DDI Central11 of 992Not 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 SolarWinds IP Address Manager. 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 92 of the 99 answers that named SolarWinds IP Address Manager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.domotz.com49

peerspot.com47

devopsschool.com43

bluecatnetworks.com38

sourceforge.net38

itechguides.com37

infoblox.com30

cotocus.com29

scmgalaxy.com29

slashdot.org26

366 of the 366 domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds IP Address Manager came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

blog.domotz.com/all/ipam-solutions49

cotocus.com/blog/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison28

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison25

scmgalaxy.com/tutorials/top-10-ddi-dns-dhcp-ipam-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison24

peerspot.com/categories/ddi23

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-ip-address-management-ipam-tools-features-pros-cons-compariso19

itechguides.com/best/ip-address-management-software19

gartner.com/reviews/market/dns-dhcp-and-ip-address-management-ddi18

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where SolarWinds IP Address Manager 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: 590 a month (“solarwinds ip address manager”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Its own site: It sits on SolarWinds's site (solarwinds.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

13%

rank 2 of 115 in DDI and IPAM

Segment leader

15%

BlueCat Micetro

First choices: 17 across its categories
Named in: 99 answers
Its own site cited: in 92 of the answers that named it

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.

Names read as SolarWinds IP Address Manager

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SolarWinds IP Address Manager; a claim can dispute any of them.

SolarWinds IPAM 11SolarWinds 9SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) 8SolarWinds – IP Address Manager 1

Follow SolarWinds IP Address Manager

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.

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The company

SolarWinds is the company behind SolarWinds IP Address Manager.

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On record

Company records

Also from SolarWinds: SolarWinds AppOptics, SolarWinds Backup, SolarWinds DDI, SolarWinds IPAM, SolarWinds Log Analyzer, SolarWinds Loggly, SolarWinds NPM, SolarWinds NTA and 17 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Product support page with install/onboarding documentation, troubleshooting articles, product forum details, upgrade guides, and more.
support.solarwinds.com/ip-address-manager
Not stated on the pages read: Who it is for, price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What SolarWinds IP Address Manager's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: support.solarwinds.com/ip-address-manager, support.solarwinds.com/solarwinds-platform-software. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 SolarWinds IP Address Manager'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 SolarWinds IP Address Manager, 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 SolarWinds IP Address Manager by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where SolarWinds IP Address Manager 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 SolarWinds IP Address Manager, 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 SolarWinds IP Address Manager 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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SolarWinds IP Address Manager is among the products AI models recommend first in DDI and IP address 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/network/ddi-and-ipam/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/solarwinds-ip-address-manager--ddi-and-ipam-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in DDI and IP address 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 DDI and IP address management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/ddi-and-ipam/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/solarwinds-ip-address-manager--ddi-and-ipam-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in DDI and IP address management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/network/ddi-and-ipam/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/solarwinds-ip-address-manager--ddi-and-ipam-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in DDI and IP address 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 DDI and IP address 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.