Every category where a model named Terraform/OpenTofu 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
Infrastructure as code	Cloud and infrastructure	5%	4 of 46	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Terraform at 46%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Terraform/OpenTofu 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 Terraform/OpenTofu across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	2	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct2 labels2

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative2 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained1 label1

Scale-constrained1 label1

Negative4 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative11 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 10 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 multi-cloud and hiring-friendly → Terraform (or OpenTofu) with HCP Terraform/Enterprise or Pulumi” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IaC · scale prompt · first choice

“prefer Terraform/OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Bicep/ARM, or Pulumi when they match your stack” Perplexity Sonar · IaC · negative prompt · first choice

“I'd usually recommend Terraform/OpenTofu as the default choice” GPT-5.4 mini · IaC · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“the best default choice is usually Terraform/OpenTofu” GPT-5.4 mini · IaC · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Terraform/OpenTofu, over the 11 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Terraform/OpenTofu was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Pulumi11 of 110Not in the top three

AWS CloudFormation7 of 110Not in the top three

Ansible5 of 111Not in the top three

Puppet5 of 110Not in the top three

Azure Bicep4 of 110Not in the top three

Chef4 of 110Not in the top three

Terraform3 of 110Not in the top three

OpenTofu2 of 111Not in the top three

AWS CDK2 of 110Not in the top three

Crossplane2 of 110Not 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 Terraform/OpenTofu. 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 9 of the 11 answers that named Terraform/OpenTofu and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

guideflow.com7

apiiro.com6

spacelift.io5

claranet.com4

computingforgeeks.com4

pulumi.com4

checkthat.ai3

cortex.io3

docs.aws.amazon.com3

envzero.com3

Forty-two of the forty-two domain citations in answers naming Terraform/OpenTofu came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools7

apiiro.com/blog/best-iac-tools6

computingforgeeks.com/best-infrastructure-as-code-iac-cloud-automation-tools4

spacelift.io/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools4

checkthat.ai/answers/what-are-the-best-infrastructure-as-code-tools3

cortex.io/post/best-infrastructure-as-code-iac-tools3

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/operational-excellence/infrastructure-as-3

pulumi.com/blog/infrastructure-as-code-tools3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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