Every category where a model named Sparx Enterprise Architect 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
Enterprise architecture tools	IT operations and endpoint	0%	106 of 113	54%	13	criticized challenger

Movement

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

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Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	2
Kimi K2	0	2	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct10 labels2

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative9 labels4not counted in share

Budget-constrained9 labelsNone

Scale-constrained10 labelsNone

Negative10 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative48 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 6 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.

“If budget is primary concern, Sparx Enterprise Architect offers the best features per dollar, though it's more traditional” MiniMax M2.5 · EA tools · direct prompt · alternative

“If you can allocate some budget, Sparx Enterprise Architect offers affordable one-time licensing for smaller teams” Claude Haiku 4.5 · EA tools · budget prompt · alternative

“Best for: detailed modeling across EA, UML, SysML, BPMN, and ArchiMate.” GPT-5.4 mini · EA tools · comparative prompt · alternative

“Sparx Enterprise Architect ⭐ *Most Budget-Friendly*” GLM 4.7 FlashX · EA tools · direct 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.

“On‑premise, decade‑old EA suites (e.g., older versions of Sparx Enterprise Architect, early‑era ER/Studio, legacy IBM Rational tools)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · EA tools · negative prompt · hard negative

“it carries a reputation for being difficult to maintain and hard to adopt. You should be cautious or avoid this tool if” Qwen 3.7 Flash · EA tools · negative prompt · soft negative

“Powerful but requires dedicated expertise. Avoid if you need quick adoption or have limited training resources.” Kimi K2 · EA tools · negative prompt · soft negative

“Very powerful but has a steep learning curve. Overkill if you just need high-level application mapping.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · EA tools · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sparx Enterprise Architect, over the 48 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sparx Enterprise Architect was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ardoq33 of 4814Not among the top eight

SAP LeanIX24 of 4814Not among the top eight

Bizzdesign Horizzon21 of 482Not among the top eight

Archi15 of 485Not among the top eight

LeanIX14 of 486Not among the top eight

MEGA HOPEX8 of 480Not among the top eight

OrbusInfinity8 of 480Not among the top eight

Orbus Infinity6 of 480Not among the top eight

Bizzdesign Enterprise Studio5 of 480Not among the top eight

ServiceNow Enterprise Architecture5 of 480Not 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 Sparx Enterprise Architect. 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 45 of the 48 answers that named Sparx Enterprise Architect and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

superblocks.com32

ardoq.com24

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com19

capstera.com18

erstudio.com18

itechguides.com18

leanix.net17

archiq.app15

ciopages.com15

thectoclub.com15

191 of the 191 domain citations in answers naming Sparx Enterprise Architect came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

superblocks.com/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools32

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tools/10-best-enterprise-arch/13170569419

capstera.com/knowledge-hub/articles/enterprise-architecture-tools-guide18

erstudio.com/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools18

ardoq.com/knowledge-hub/enterprise-architecture-tool15

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/enterprise-architecture-tool15

thectoclub.com/tools/best-enterprise-architecture-software15

archiq.app/enterprise-architecture-tools14

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

sparxsystems.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Sparx Enterprise Architect takes 0% of first choices and SAP LeanIX takes 25%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “enterprise architecture tool”

Position for “enterprise architecture tools”

Searches for its name, Google: 260 a month (“sparx enterprise architect”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 15 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 24,501 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 3,949 · 315 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,334
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

17 ads · 17 text · 17 shown in the last 30 days

First shown December 2023, as Sparx Systems Pty Ltd, verified. 3 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 106 of 113 in EA tools

Segment leader

25%

SAP LeanIX

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 48 answers
Its own site cited: in 45 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.

What it publishes

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Addresses on sparxsystems.com

5,536

subdomains included

Content

1,143

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

66 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days
Blog	902	undated
Webinar or virtual event	104	undated
Conference or event	51	undated
Case study	31	undated
Glossary or explainer	29	undated
Comparison	7	undated
Podcast or video	7	undated
News or press	5	undated
Template or tool	4	undated
Report or ebook	3	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page sparxsystems.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.

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The company

Sparx Enterprise Architect is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: UML design and business analysis tool for modeling, documenting, reverse engineering, building and maintaining object-oriented software systems, fast and intuitive.
sparxsystems.com
For: executives, architects, and delivery teams
sparxsystems.com
Price stated: Great features, great price. sparxsystems.com
Free plan or trial: Free Trial sparxsystems.com
Hosting: AfricaAsiaEuropeMiddle EastNorth AmericaOceaniaSouth America
Customers named: Adept Technologies llc
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, certifications

What Sparx Enterprise Architect's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: sparxsystems.com, sparxsystems.com/prolaborate/pricing, sparxsystems.com/products/ea, sparxsystems.com/prolaborate/case-studies, sparxsystems.com/prolaborate/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Sparx Enterprise Architect by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Sparx Enterprise Architect 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 Sparx Enterprise Architect, 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.