Every category where a model named Sumo Logic 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
Log management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	15 of 59	11%	18	accepted challenger
SIEM platforms	Security operations	0%	11 of 49	17%	18	accepted challenger
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	24 of 63	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 29%
Application performance monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	60 of 70	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by New Relic at 54%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sumo Logic 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 Sumo Logic 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	1	5	0	6
GPT-5.4 mini	2	1	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	3	0	1	4
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	4	0	4
Mistral Small	2	2	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	2	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	2
Kimi K2	0	2	2	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	4	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	1	3

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

Direct14 labels1

Paraphrase19 labels3

Comparative33 labelsNone

Budget-constrained12 labels2

Scale-constrained18 labels1

Negative12 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative108 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 7 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.

“Ideal for mid-market teams that want strong log analytics and SIEM capabilities, with flexible pricing models.” Mistral Small · Observability · direct prompt · alternative

“a solid SaaS alternative if you want centralized logs with less operational overhead than Elastic.” GPT-5.4 mini · Logs · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Go with Sumo Logic if your sales team frequently runs into rigorous security reviews” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Logs · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best for Tech-Forward / SaaS B2B Companies: Datadog Cloud SIEM or Sumo Logic” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SIEM · paraphrase 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.

“Avoid: Splunk, Datadog, or Sumo Logic” Kimi K2 · Logs · budget prompt · hard negative

“charges per "scan" whenever you query data... Frequent querying can become expensive.” MiniMax M2.5 · Logs · negative prompt · soft negative

“Strategic uncertainty: "Roadmap visibility less clear post take-private"” Kimi K2 · SIEM · negative prompt · soft negative

“falls short on threat detection depth compared to the enterprise leaders” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SIEM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sumo Logic, over the 108 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sumo Logic was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Splunk70 of 10815Not in the top three

Datadog Log Management57 of 1087Not in the top three

Elastic Stack48 of 1083Not in the top three

Microsoft Sentinel47 of 10813Not in the top three

Grafana Loki36 of 1083Not in the top three

Graylog34 of 1081Not in the top three

Elastic Security31 of 1083Not in the top three

IBM QRadar26 of 1080Not in the top three

New Relic Logs22 of 1081Not in the top three

Splunk Enterprise Security15 of 1082Not 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 Sumo Logic. 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 84 of the 108 answers that named Sumo Logic and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

openobserve.ai29

cribl.io26

exabeam.com26

gartner.com25

toolradar.com24

middleware.io21

signoz.io21

reddit.com19

parseable.com18

sumologic.comYour site18

209 of the 227 domain citations in answers naming Sumo Logic came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

signoz.io/blog/best-log-management-tools17

openobserve.ai/blog/log-management-tools16

cribl.io/resources/comparison-guides/top-10-log-collection-and-analysis-platforms15

exabeam.com/explainers/log-management/top-6-log-management-tools-and-how-to-choose15

dash0.com/comparisons/best-log-management-tools14

openobserve.ai/blog/top-10-log-monitoring-tools-202514

parseable.com/blog/log-management-tools14

gartner.com/reviews/market/security-information-event-management13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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