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
Cloud cost management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	78 of 79	45%	11	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Spot by NetApp 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 Spot by NetApp 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	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	1
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	0	2
Kimi K2	1	0	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct2 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative23 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Best for: Automated optimization and containerized workloads” Kimi K2 · 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.

“explicitly recommends avoiding "fee based providers" like Spot and CloudHealth because they felt the cost was no longer worth it” Perplexity Sonar · FinOps · negative prompt · hard negative

“These fee-based providers are frequently cited as not being worth the cost anymore” Mistral Small · FinOps · negative prompt · hard negative

“Be wary of platforms that have been bought and sold multiple times (e.g., CloudCheckr, Spot.io before its acquisition by NetApp).” GLM 4.7 FlashX · FinOps · negative prompt · soft negative

“Spot.io moved from NetApp to Flexera (March 2025) ... Risk of feature consolidation or sunsetting” Kimi K2 · FinOps · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Spot by NetApp, over the 23 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth18 of 233Not in the top three

IBM Apptio Cloudability15 of 234Not in the top three

Vantage11 of 235Not in the top three

Kubecost11 of 230Not in the top three

CloudZero10 of 230Not in the top three

AWS Cost Explorer9 of 232Not in the top three

Microsoft Cost Management9 of 232Not in the top three

Flexera One7 of 230Not in the top three

Harness Cloud Cost Management7 of 230Not in the top three

Finout6 of 231Not 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 Spot by NetApp. 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 23 answers that named Spot by NetApp and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudaware.com11

cloudzero.com11

gartner.com8

learn.g2.com8

usage.ai8

amnic.com7

nops.io7

openmetal.io7

aws.amazon.com5

flexera.com5

Seventy-seven of the seventy-seven domain citations in answers naming Spot by NetApp came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools9

cloudzero.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools8

gartner.com/reviews/market/cloud-financial-management-tools8

learn.g2.com/best-cloud-cost-management-software8

usage.ai/blogs/finops/tools/best-tools8

openmetal.io/resources/blog/which-cloud-cost-management-tool-is-best-for-your-company6

amnic.com/blogs/cloud-cost-management-tools5

nops.io/blog/cloud-cost-management-software-tools5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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 3Spot 2Flexera One / Spot.io (NetApp) 1Spot (by Microsoft) 1Spot.io (by VMware/Turbonomic) 1

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