Every category where a model named Vantage 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	54%	1 of 79	0%	48	endorsed leader

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	4	0	6
Perplexity Sonar	3	0	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	3	0	5
Mistral Small	2	1	1	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	1	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	3	0	1	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	1	0	3
Kimi K2	4	2	0	6
GLM 4.7 FlashX	3	1	0	4
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	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

Direct31 labels22

Paraphrase24 labels15

Comparative29 labels9not counted in share

Budget-constrained26 labels12

Scale-constrained16 labels10

Negative12 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative138 labels in all, every segment counted; 59 of the 69 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.

“Vantage is the strongest fit in the results because it offers very low entry pricing and is explicitly recommended for smaller spend levels” Perplexity Sonar · FinOps · budget prompt · first choice

“I would generally recommend Vantage if you want the best balance of fast setup, clear visibility, and pricing that fits mid-market teams.” Perplexity Sonar · FinOps · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Vantage is widely considered the leader in affordable cloud cost management. They offer a genuinely free tier that is rare in the industry.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · FinOps · budget prompt · first choice

“Choose Vantage if you spend under $2,500/month on the cloud and want a highly polished, ready-to-go, multi-cloud dashboard for free.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · FinOps · 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 Vantage, over the 138 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Vantage was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CloudZero88 of 1388Compare →

IBM Apptio Cloudability74 of 13820Not in the top three

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth59 of 1383Not in the top three

Kubecost56 of 1380Not in the top three

AWS Cost Explorer52 of 13814Not in the top three

Microsoft Cost Management43 of 1387Not in the top three

Infracost41 of 1381Not in the top three

CAST AI40 of 1380Not in the top three

Finout38 of 1382Compare →

Flexera One37 of 1381Not 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 Vantage. 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 120 of the 138 answers that named Vantage and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudaware.com94

cloudzero.com89

gartner.com54

amnic.com51

nops.io51

vantage.sh48

learn.g2.com47

usage.ai44

spendark.com42

pointfive.co37

557 of the 557 domain citations in answers naming Vantage came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudzero.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools75

cloudaware.com/blog/cloud-cost-management-tools65

gartner.com/reviews/market/cloud-financial-management-tools54

learn.g2.com/best-cloud-cost-management-software47

nops.io/blog/cloud-cost-management-software-tools39

spendark.com/blog/cloud-cost-tools-small-business35

usage.ai/blogs/finops/tools/best-tools35

amnic.com/blogs/cloud-cost-management-tools34

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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