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SpendArk

18Judge labels
1First choices
0Negative labels
8 of 12Models named it
1Category
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in FinOps for small business buyers
Rank 49 of 79 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 1 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business10 of 78
2%17 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market49 of 79
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Enterprisenot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
In finops · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named SpendArk 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Cloud cost managementCloud and infrastructure0%49 of 790%1under 10 labels · led by Vantage at 54%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SpendArk 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 SpendArk across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash00000
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small00000
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash00000
Kimi K200000
GLM 4.7 FlashX00000
MiniMax M2.500000

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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative7 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained5 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 label1
Negative3 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 5 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.

“free, supports AWS + Azure + GCP, setup in minutes (ideal for small teams)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · FinOps · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SpendArk, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SpendArk was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Vantage16 of 186Not in the top three
Infracost16 of 181Not in the top three
AWS Cost Explorer12 of 187Not in the top three
CloudZero11 of 180Not in the top three
Kubecost11 of 180Not in the top three
Microsoft Cost Management10 of 184Not in the top three
OpenCost9 of 180Not in the top three
Google Cloud Billing5 of 182Not in the top three
CAST AI5 of 180Not in the top three
Flexera One4 of 180Not 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 SpendArk. 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 18 of the 18 answers that named SpendArk and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

spendark.comYour site18
cloudaware.com15
cloudzero.com14
amnic.com7
gartner.com7
usage.ai7
granica.ai5
newrelic.com5
nops.io5
costbench.com4

Sixty-nine of the eighty-seven domain citations in answers naming SpendArk came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools15
spendark.com/blog/cloud-cost-tools-small-business15
cloudzero.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools14
spendark.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-alternatives13
amnic.com/blogs/cloud-cost-management-tools7
gartner.com/reviews/market/cloud-financial-management-tools7
granica.ai/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools-grc5
newrelic.com/blog/observability/best-cloud-cost-management-tools5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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