Every category where a model named SolarWinds Papertrail 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
Log management	IT operations and endpoint	2%	12 of 59	11%	9	under 10 labels · led by Datadog Log Management at 20%
Error and crash monitoring	Developer platform	0%	37 of 44	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Sentry at 82%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SolarWinds Papertrail 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 SolarWinds Papertrail across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1	1	3
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	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

Direct7 labels2

Paraphrase7 labels1

Comparative14 labels7not counted in share

Budget-constrained17 labels5

Scale-constrained6 labels1

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative59 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 16 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.

“Papertrail is considered the best free log management option in 2026” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Logs · budget prompt · first choice

“The cheapest fixed-cost paid option for very small predictable-volume teams.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Logs · budget prompt · alternative

“Best for Simple/Minimalist Needs: Papertrail” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Logs · budget prompt · alternative

“Choose Papertrail (for small teams)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Logs · 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.

“Many teams try to use Log Management tools as error monitors... Finding a specific exception buried in a wall of `INFO` logs is a nightmare” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Error monitoring · negative prompt · soft negative

“many "free tiers" (e.g., Papertrail 50MB/mo) explode quickly” Grok 4.1 Fast · Logs · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Papertrail, over the 59 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SolarWinds Papertrail was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Better Stack47 of 5919Not in the top three

Grafana Loki41 of 596Not in the top three

Datadog Log Management40 of 592Not in the top three

Elastic Stack36 of 592Not in the top three

Splunk29 of 590Not in the top three

Graylog28 of 592Not in the top three

Axiom21 of 596Not in the top three

SigNoz16 of 592Not in the top three

OpenObserve14 of 591Not in the top three

New Relic Logs14 of 590Not 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 SolarWinds Papertrail. 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 42 of the 59 answers that named SolarWinds Papertrail and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

toolradar.com32

subrupt.com26

openobserve.ai25

dash0.com20

dupple.com20

401clicks.com15

cubeapm.com14

grepr.ai14

sherlocks.ai12

cribl.io11

189 of the 189 domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds Papertrail came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

toolradar.com/guides/best-log-management-tools27

subrupt.com/best/log-management26

dupple.com/learn/best-log-management-tools20

openobserve.ai/blog/log-management-tools20

dash0.com/comparisons/best-log-management-tools19

toolradar.com/best/log-management/for/small-businesses19

grepr.ai/blog/best-log-management-tools-in-2026-a-realists-buying-guide14

401clicks.com/blog/best-log-management-tools-for-small-teams-in-202613

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as SolarWinds Papertrail

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

Papertrail 10

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