Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 64 → 20 of 78
Spot · 1 category · RankedSpot by NetApp
29Judge labels
2First choices
6Negative labels
9 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in FinOps for mid-market buyers
Rank 13 of 76 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 25% of its 12 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Spot by NetApp →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business21 of 83
2%8 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market13 of 76
2%12 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise13 of 73
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
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 Spot by NetApp 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud cost management | Cloud and infrastructure | 2% | 13 of 76 | 25% | 12 | criticized challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Spot by NetApp held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · FinOps · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 68 → 12 of 70
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 14 → 13 of 71
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FinOps | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 68 → 13 of 76 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Spot by NetApp across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Spot by NetApp across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 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
Direct8 labels2
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative6 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative29 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.
“I'd suggest starting with CloudHealth or Spot if you have multi-cloud complexity” MiniMax M2.5 · FinOps · direct prompt · first choice
“Choose ProsperOps or Spot/Flexera if your main goal is commitment and workload optimization.” Perplexity Sonar · FinOps · comparative prompt · alternative
“Spot is a good fit for companies that want to reduce cloud waste and improve efficiency” Mistral Small · FinOps · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“evaluate Cloudability, CloudHealth, Flexera, Finout, Spot, or Kubecost” GPT-5.4 mini · FinOps · comparative 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.
“better suited for large-scale Spot/preemptible management at enterprise scale” DeepSeek V4 Flash · FinOps · direct prompt · hard negative
“Spot can be expensive relative to the value delivered” Mistral Small · FinOps · negative prompt · soft negative
“Spot.io (acquired by Flexera)... Use cautiously” Qwen 3.7 Flash · FinOps · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Spot by NetApp, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spot by NetApp was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Spot by NetApp, over the 29 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Spot by NetApp was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Spot by NetApp. 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 26 of the 29 answers that named Spot by NetApp and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
cloudaware.com18
cloudzero.com13
cloudbolt.io11
nops.io10
digitalocean.com9
finout.io9
g2.com8
gartner.com8
openmetal.io8
techtarget.com8
102 of the 102 domain citations in answers naming Spot by NetApp came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
flexera.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Spot by NetApp takes 2% of first choices and Vantage takes 45%.ShowHide
Search and answers
flexera.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Spot by NetApp takes 2% of first choices and Vantage takes 45%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cloud cost management platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “cloud cost management platforms”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 50 a month (“spot by netapp”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 15 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 48,107 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 10,220 · 691 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 16,862
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 13 of 76 in finops
Segment leader
45%
Vantage
- First choices
- 2 across its categories
- Named in
- 29 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 26 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on flexera.com
5,025
subdomains included
Content
1,943
counted in the table below
Documentation
4
Product · Integration
96 · 18
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,341 | 13 | 2026-09-28 | ITAM, FinOps | |
| News or press | 195 | undated | ITAM, FinOps | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 156 | 0 | 2026-01-30 | ITAM, ITSM | |
| Glossary or explainer | 68 | 1 | 2026-09-02 | ITAM, ITSM | |
| Comparison | 60 | 1 | 2026-07-09 | ITAM | |
| Case study | 58 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 33 | 0 | 2026-06-30 | ITAM | |
| Report or ebook | 25 | 0 | 2025-08-07 | ||
| Template or tool | 7 | 0 | 2024-09-18 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Enterprise ai governance guide blog
- 2026-09-25FinOps for AI: A practical guide to managing AI cloud costs (2026) blog
- 2026-09-24Ai cost management business case blog
- 2026-09-24Ai cost managment business case blog
- 2026-09-22The ai cost reckoning why token bills are becoming the new cloud bill blog
- 2026-09-16Ai impact data cloud spend blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- June 17, 2026 to June 18, 2026Hands-on sessions and wrap-upMoscone Center, San Francisco, USA · attended
- June 16, 2026Databricks Data + AI summit Day 2Moscone Center, San Francisco, USA · attended
- June 15, 2026 to June 18, 2026Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026Moscone Center, San Francisco, USA · attended
- June 15, 2026Databricks Data + AI summit Day 1Moscone Center, San Francisco, USA · attended
- June 1, 2026 to June 4, 2026Snowflake Summit 2026Moscone Center, San Francisco · attended
As the event pages on flexera.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page flexera.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name ITAM (169); 11 name the category the models place it in. 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 Spot by NetApp
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Spot by NetApp; a claim can dispute any of them.
Spot.io 2Flexera One / Spot by NetApp 1Spot 1Spot by NetApp (Spot.io) 1Spot by NetApp (formerly Spot.io) 1
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Spot by NetApp by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Spot by NetApp 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 Spot by NetApp, 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.