Every category where a model named Spacelift 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
Infrastructure as code	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	10 of 46	10%	10	accepted challenger
CI/CD platforms	Developer platform	0%	32 of 45	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by GitHub Actions at 65%
Cloud cost management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	48 of 79	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 54%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct6 labelsNone

Paraphrase8 labelsNone

Comparative12 labelsNone

Budget-constrained8 labels4

Scale-constrained8 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative44 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.

“you will likely need a third-party framework (like Spacelift, env0, or Scalr) to manage state, access control (RBAC), and run pipelines securely” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · direct prompt · alternative

“you will evaluate alternative platforms like Spacelift, env0, or Scalr” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · scale prompt · alternative

“consider env0 or Spacelift as the orchestration/governance layer” Perplexity Sonar · IaC · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Using a third-party manager like Spacelift or env0” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · paraphrase 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.

“To avoid paying for expensive SaaS management platforms (like Terraform Cloud or Spacelift)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IaC · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Spacelift, over the 44 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spacelift was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Terraform41 of 4424Not in the top three

Pulumi39 of 448Not in the top three

OpenTofu36 of 4418Not in the top three

Crossplane21 of 441Not in the top three

env020 of 441Not in the top three

AWS CloudFormation20 of 440Not in the top three

AWS CDK18 of 440Not in the top three

Ansible16 of 441Not in the top three

Scalr16 of 440Not in the top three

Azure Bicep11 of 440Not 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 Spacelift. 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 31 of the 44 answers that named Spacelift and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

pulumi.com22

spacelift.ioYour site21

apiiro.com20

guideflow.com15

firefly.ai13

cortex.io12

facets.cloud12

checkthat.ai11

devopsplatforms.com10

sentinelone.com10

125 of the 146 domain citations in answers naming Spacelift came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

apiiro.com/blog/best-iac-tools20

pulumi.com/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools20

guideflow.com/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools15

spacelift.io/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools13

cortex.io/post/best-infrastructure-as-code-iac-tools12

facets.cloud/blog/top-8-infrastructure-as-code-iac-tools10

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-infrastructure-as-code-tools9

computingforgeeks.com/best-infrastructure-as-code-iac-cloud-automation-tools9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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