Every category where a model named Sunbird DCIM 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
Data center infrastructure management	IT operations and endpoint	27%	1 of 103	3%	29	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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

Direct19 labels9

Paraphrase17 labels7

Comparative12 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained10 labels4

Scale-constrained7 labels4

Negative3 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative68 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 28 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 recommend Sunbird DCIM (specifically their dcTrack for operations or the full suite), as it's frequently highlighted as a top choice for mid-market needs” Grok 4.1 Fast · DCIM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Sunbird DCIM is one of the more approachable mid-market DCIM options... Sunbird is consistently rated the #1 DCIM solution by independent analysts.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DCIM · direct prompt · first choice

“A cloud-based solution that excels in asset tracking and capacity monitoring, making it a strong fit for mid-sized businesses” Mistral Small · DCIM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Sunbird is positioned as a pure-play DCIM platform... If you want deep DCIM only: Sunbird or Nlyte” GPT-5.4 mini · DCIM · comparative 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.

“Starting from $15,000/year (though this is higher-end)” Claude Haiku 4.5 · DCIM · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sunbird DCIM, over the 68 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sunbird DCIM was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Device4237 of 685Compare →

Nlyte DCIM33 of 681Not among the top eight

Hyperview25 of 688Compare →

NetBox25 of 688Compare →

Schneider Electric EcoStruxure IT22 of 686Not among the top eight

openDCIM20 of 684Compare →

FNT Command12 of 681Not among the top eight

ManageEngine OpManager11 of 682Not among the top eight

RackTables8 of 681Not among the top eight

Vertiv Trellis8 of 680Not 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 Sunbird DCIM. 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 65 of the 68 answers that named Sunbird DCIM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dcgeeks.com38

motadata.com36

virima.com33

sunbirddcim.comYour site30

g2.com27

worldmetrics.org26

geekflare.com22

getguru.com21

sourceforge.net21

em360tech.com20

244 of the 274 domain citations in answers naming Sunbird DCIM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

dcgeeks.com/dcim-software-guide38

motadata.com/blog/data-center-infrastructure-management-tools35

virima.com/blog/best-dcim-software32

geekflare.com/cloud/dcim-software22

getguru.com/reference/dcim-software21

em360tech.com/top-10/dcim-software-solutions20

reliamag.com/guides/best-dcim-software19

sunbirddcim.com/pricing17

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Sunbird DCIM stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “dcim tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “dcim tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 480 a month (“sunbird dcim”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 16 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 55,643 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 3,157 · 458 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 2,461
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

89 ads · 79 text, 10 image · 46 shown in the last 30 days

First shown September 2022, as Sunbird Software, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 9 in the year, 80 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

27%

rank 1 of 103 in DCIM

First choices

across its categories

Named in: 68 answers
Its own site cited: in 65 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 sunbirddcim.com

790

subdomains included

Content

707

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

10 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	557	2	2026-09-23	DCIM, ITSM
Report or ebook	54	undated		DCIM
Case study	44	undated		DCIM
Webinar or virtual event	21	undated		DCIM
Conference or event	16	undated
Comparison	7	undated		DCIM
Template or tool	4	undated		DCIM
News or press	3	undated		DCIM
Glossary or explainer	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-23How universities and academic institutions use dcim efficiency and collaboration their data blog
2026-09-10Data center capacity planning anxiety rising 2026 how dcim can help blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page sunbirddcim.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 October 5, 2026.

Names read as Sunbird DCIM

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

Sunbird DCIM (dcTrack + Power IQ) 3Sunbird DCIM (dcTrack & Power IQ) 2Sunbird DCIM (dcTrack + PowerIQ) 1Sunbird DCIM / dcTrack 1

Follow Sunbird DCIM

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

Sunbird DCIM is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Data Center Infrastructure Management Software System
sunbirddcim.com
For: data center operators
sunbirddcim.com
Price stated: Buy it your way with Annual Subscription Pricing or Perpetual License + Annual Maintenance. sunbirddcim.com/pricing
Starting price: 5.50 sunbirddcim.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: Try it Free; Free 30 Day Trial - With Your Own Data; Free Full Featured Download sunbirddcim.com
Certifications: VMware ReadyServiceNow Integration with Certified AppSSAE-16HIPAA
Customers named: ComcastEmersonWorld BankFive9Erie InsurancePaddy Power BetfairMetronomVodafone
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, hosting

What Sunbird DCIM's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: sunbirddcim.com, sunbirddcim.com/pricing, sunbirddcim.com/product/data-center-security, sunbirddcim.com/case-studies, sunbirddcim.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Sunbird DCIM's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Sunbird DCIM, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Sunbird DCIM by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Sunbird DCIM 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 Sunbird DCIM, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Sunbird DCIM is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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AI models recommend Sunbird DCIM first in Data center infrastructure management this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/data-center-infrastructure-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/sunbird-dcim--data-center-infrastructure-management-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Data center infrastructure management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Data center infrastructure management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/data-center-infrastructure-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/sunbird-dcim--data-center-infrastructure-management-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Data center infrastructure management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Data center infrastructure management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/data-center-infrastructure-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/sunbird-dcim--data-center-infrastructure-management-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Data center infrastructure management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Data center infrastructure management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.