Every category where a model named Sunbird 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	4%	8 of 103	18%	11	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labels2

Comparative4 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained12 labels3

Scale-constrained5 labels1

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative35 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 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.

“If you want the most balanced mid-market commercial DCIM with asset + power/cooling and minimal implementation friction: Sunbird dcTrack + Power IQ.” Muse Glimmer 30B · DCIM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Sunbird is widely considered the gold standard for mid-market DCIM.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · DCIM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Published pricing; flexible cloud/on-prem; strong asset + power tracking; good for multi-site ops.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · DCIM · 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.

“large suites such as Schneider EcoStruxure or Sunbird can be overkill, expensive, and complex” Perplexity Sonar · DCIM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Some solutions like Sunbird can be "pricey"” MiniMax M2.5 · DCIM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sunbird, over the 35 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sunbird was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

NetBox19 of 356Compare →

Nlyte DCIM18 of 350Not among the top eight

Hyperview17 of 353Compare →

Device4212 of 350Compare →

Schneider Electric EcoStruxure IT10 of 350Not among the top eight

openDCIM7 of 354Compare →

Vertiv Trellis5 of 351Not among the top eight

Schneider EcoStruxure IT5 of 350Not among the top eight

Zabbix4 of 351Not among the top eight

Cormant-CS3 of 350Not 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. 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 29 of the 35 answers that named Sunbird and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

dcgeeks.com21

motadata.com16

thectoclub.com13

worldmetrics.org12

virima.com10

itechguides.com8

g2.com7

reliamag.com7

sourceforge.net7

sunbirddcim.com7

No domain is on file for Sunbird, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

dcgeeks.com/dcim-software-guide21

motadata.com/blog/data-center-infrastructure-management-tools16

thectoclub.com/tools/best-dcim-software10

virima.com/blog/best-dcim-software9

reliamag.com/guides/best-dcim-software7

g2.com/categories/data-center-infrastructure-management-dcim6

holidaylandmark.com/blog/top-10-data-center-infrastructure-management-dcim-software-featur6

netboxlabs.com/blog/open-source-dcim-tools6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

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

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 8,100 a month (“sunbird”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 2,558 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 8 of 103 in DCIM

Segment leader

27%

Sunbird DCIM

First choices: 6 across its categories
Named in: 35 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

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.

Names read as Sunbird

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

Sunbird (dcTrack + Power IQ) 2Sunbird (dcTrack & Power IQ) 1Sunbird (dcTrack) 1

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

where Sunbird 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, 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.