Every category where a model named Sparx Systems 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	5%	5 of 113	17%	29	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sparx Systems 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 Systems 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	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	1	1	4
Mistral Small	2	0	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	0	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	3	0	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	1	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	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

Direct15 labels7

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative25 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained23 labels6

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative14 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative77 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 21 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.

“It maintains a dominant 18% market share in the defense and aerospace sectors and remains the most cost-effective solution for large-scale deployments” Claude Haiku 4.5 · EA tools · comparative prompt · first choice

“Choose Sparx EA when you need deep, standards-based architecture modeling, full control of the repository, and the lowest cost at scale” Muse Glimmer 30B · EA tools · comparative prompt · first choice

“If you want a powerful, cost-effective, on-premise tool with deep modeling, choose Sparx Enterprise Architect.” Mistral Small · EA tools · direct prompt · first choice

“Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect is widely recommended as the best enterprise architecture tool” Mistral Small · EA tools · 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.

“Highest Caution/Steepest Learning Curve ... Frequently cited as one of the most problematic” Grok 4.1 Fast · EA tools · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid: - Sparx Enterprise Architect if you need business-friendly EA” DeepSeek V4 Flash · EA tools · negative prompt · hard negative

“The learning curve is steep with nested menus and features hidden in dialogs... Users report outdated design, poor UI, difficulty understanding and finding required tools, and performance issues” Claude Haiku 4.5 · EA tools · negative prompt · soft negative

“infamous for an unintuitive, dated UI and significant performance lag when querying repositories over corporate VPNs” Gemini 3.5 Flash · EA tools · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect, over the 77 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ardoq57 of 777Compare →

SAP LeanIX43 of 7718Compare →

Bizzdesign Horizzon40 of 770Compare →

Archi24 of 7712Compare →

MEGA HOPEX23 of 770Not among the top eight

LeanIX21 of 770Compare →

Avolution ABACUS19 of 771Not among the top eight

OrbusInfinity12 of 770Not among the top eight

BOC Group10 of 770Not among the top eight

Bizzdesign Enterprise Studio10 of 770Not 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 Systems 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 77 of the 77 answers that named Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

erstudio.com62

superblocks.com47

ardoq.com37

catio.tech36

research.oz.spotlightar.com36

thectoclub.com35

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com32

boardmix.com27

itechguides.com27

urbahive.com27

366 of the 366 domain citations in answers naming Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

erstudio.com/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools62

superblocks.com/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools47

catio.tech/blog/enterprise-architecture-tools35

thectoclub.com/tools/best-enterprise-architecture-software35

cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/tools/10-best-enterprise-arch/13170569432

research.oz.spotlightar.com/reports/magic-quadrant-enterprise-architecture-tools-2024/lead32

boardmix.com/articles/top-10-enterprise-architecture-tools25

archiq.app/enterprise-architecture-tools22

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 Systems Enterprise Architect takes 5% 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: 210 a month (“sparx systems enterprise architect”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 2 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 5 of 113 in EA tools

Segment leader

25%

SAP LeanIX

First choices: 13 across its categories
Named in: 77 answers
Its own site cited: in 77 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

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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.

Names read as Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

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

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect (EA) 1Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect (Sparx EA) 1

Follow Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect

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

Sparx Systems 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: individuals and groups and large organizations
sparxsystems.com
Price stated: Annual payment is the only option. sparxsystems.com/prolaborate/pricing
Starting price: $21.70 Per user sparxsystems.com/prolaborate/pricing
Free plan or trial: Free Trial sparxsystems.com
Hosting: AfricaAsiaEuropeMiddle EastNorth AmericaOceaniaSouth America
Customers named: Adept Technologies llc
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, certifications

What Sparx Systems 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 Systems Enterprise Architect by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Sparx Systems 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 Systems 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.