Every category where a model named VictoriaMetrics 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
Time series databases	Data platform	8%	3 of 66	2%	40	accepted challenger
Infrastructure monitoring	IT operations and endpoint	0%	19 of 79	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Datadog at 28%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
Telemetry pipelines	IT operations and endpoint	0%	34 of 124	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by OpenTelemetry Collector at 37%
Observability platforms	IT operations and endpoint	0%	29 of 80	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Grafana at 27%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for VictoriaMetrics 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 VictoriaMetrics 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	2	2	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	6	0	0	7
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	0	0	2
Grok 4.20	0	1	2	0	3
Mistral Small	0	0	4	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	0	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	1	1	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	2	3	0	6
Kimi K2	1	2	0	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	1	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	3	0	0	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	3	0	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	0	0	2

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

Direct8 labelsNone

Paraphrase13 labels1

Comparative26 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained34 labels14

Scale-constrained16 labelsNone

Negative25 labels5not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative122 labels in all, every segment counted; 15 of the 21 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.

“TimescaleDB (if you want SQL simplicity) or VictoriaMetrics (if you want maximum performance per dollar on hardware) are the strongest budget-friendly choices.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Time series DBs · budget prompt · first choice

“the best overall choice is usually VictoriaMetrics if you want a low-cost, self-hosted metrics/time-series store” Perplexity Sonar · Time series DBs · budget prompt · first choice

“The best time series database for a company with a limited budget is VictoriaMetrics” Llama 4 Maverick · Time series DBs · budget prompt · first choice

“look for lightweight, lower-overhead open-source alternatives like VictoriaMetrics” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Infra monitoring · negative 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.

“VictoriaMetrics' docs explicitly say single-node deployments are not highly available and can have downtime during upgrades/config changes” GPT-5.4 mini · Time series DBs · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as VictoriaMetrics, over the 122 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and VictoriaMetrics was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TimescaleDB99 of 12245Compare →

InfluxDB90 of 12215Compare →

Prometheus73 of 1223Compare →

QuestDB71 of 1224Compare →

ClickHouse Cloud64 of 1220Not among the top eight

Amazon Timestream31 of 1220Not among the top eight

TDengine17 of 1220Not among the top eight

Datadog16 of 1220Not among the top eight

Thanos16 of 1220Not among the top eight

PostgreSQL15 of 1222Compare →

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 VictoriaMetrics. 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 107 of the 122 answers that named VictoriaMetrics and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

tigerdata.com73

guideflow.com72

influxdata.com60

questdb.com59

mgsoftware.nl46

sourceforge.net39

us.fitgap.com35

clickhouse.com32

viasocket.com32

dev.to25

473 of the 473 domain citations in answers naming VictoriaMetrics came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/time-series-database-software71

tigerdata.com/learn/the-best-time-series-databases-compared62

questdb.com/blog/best-time-series-databases50

mgsoftware.nl/en/tools/best-time-series-databases46

viasocket.com/discovery/blog/0q7cxp/top-time-series-databases-for-real-time-analytics28

sourceforge.net/software/time-series-databases24

tigerdata.com/learn/best-managed-time-series-databases-in-202624

clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/what-is-time-series-database20

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

victoriametrics.com ranks 6 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, VictoriaMetrics takes 8% of first choices and TimescaleDB takes 63%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “time series database”

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not in the top ten

Position for “time series databases”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 1,300 a month (“victoriametrics”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 52 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 4,097 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 886 · 99 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 2,693
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

2 ads · 1 image, 1 video · 0 shown in the last 30 days

First shown January 2026, as Victoria Metrics Inc, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 2 in the year.

On Google's pages: 1 2

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 3 of 66 in time series dbs

Segment leader

63%

TimescaleDB

First choices: 15 across its categories
Named in: 122 answers
Its own site cited: in 107 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 victoriametrics.com

943

subdomains included

Content

252

counted in the table below

Documentation

299

Product · Integration

10 · 15

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	219	17	2026-09-11
Report or ebook	20	undated
Case study	10	0	2025-12-24
Conference or event	2	0	2025-09-29
Comparison	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-11The most expensive half hour of an incident blog
2026-09-08Victoriametrics august 2026 ecosystem updates blog
2026-09-07Postgres 19 blog
2026-09-07Two cats two dogs four vendors and the model ai couldnt find blog
2026-09-03Go swiss table map blog
2026-09-03The life of a metric blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page victoriametrics.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 September 29, 2026.

Names read as VictoriaMetrics

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

Prometheus + VictoriaMetrics 1

Follow VictoriaMetrics

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.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

VictoriaMetrics is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Simple, Reliable & Efficient Observability
victoriametrics.com
For: Engineers
victoriametrics.com
Price stated: Ask for Pricing victoriametrics.com/plans-features
Free plan or trial: Free Forever victoriametrics.com/plans-features
Certifications: FIPS 140-3ISO/IEC 27001 SoAISO/IEC 27001:2022SOC 2 Type 2
Customers named: AdidasBrandwatchCERNCornell UniversityDFKIDSVDreamHostGrammarly
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, hosting

What VictoriaMetrics's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: victoriametrics.com, victoriametrics.com/plans-features, trust.victoriametrics.com, victoriametrics.com/products, victoriametrics.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 VictoriaMetrics'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 VictoriaMetrics, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where VictoriaMetrics 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 VictoriaMetrics, 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 VictoriaMetrics 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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VictoriaMetrics is among the products AI models recommend first in Time series databases 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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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Time series databases standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Time series databases 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.