4 categories · RankedZylo
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SaaS management platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 4% | 5 of 64 | 16% | 51 | accepted challenger | |
| IT financial management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 49 of 159 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Nicus ITFM Platform at 9% | |
| Enterprise architecture tools | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 61 of 113 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by SAP LeanIX at 25% | |
| Microsoft 365 management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 78 of 149 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by CoreView at 20% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Zylo across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Zylo is currently the market leader in SaaS management... they remain a top choice for smaller companies because of their "Starter" or free tiers.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · SaaS management · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd generally recommend Zylo if your main goal is SaaS spend visibility, license optimization, and renewal management” GPT-5.4 mini · SaaS management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Zylo (Gartner Leader) | Enterprises with high SaaS spend ($500K+) | Spend optimization using $75B+ data benchmarks” Grok 4.20 · SaaS management · comparative prompt · first choice
“Often positioned as a strong all-around SaaS management leader, with high user ratings and broad platform visibility.” Perplexity Sonar · SaaS management · 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.
“Platforms to Avoid on a Tight Budget ... Zylo | Starts at ~$30,000/year” Kimi K2 · SaaS management · budget prompt · hard negative
“What to Avoid on a Budget ... Zylo (starting ~$30K/year)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · SaaS management · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Zylo, Productiv, and BetterCloud.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SaaS management · negative prompt · hard negative
“the standard enterprise SaaS Management Platforms (SMPs) like Zylo, Productiv, or BetterCloud are usually out of the question” Gemini 3.5 Flash · SaaS management · budget prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Zylo, over the 179 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Zylo was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 168 of the 179 answers that named Zylo and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
541 of the 625 domain citations in answers naming Zylo came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
zylo.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Zylo takes 4% of first choices and Torii takes 34%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 2,400 a month (“zylo”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 110 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 13,907 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,420 · 213 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 4,048
- Paid Google search
- 6 searches its ads show for, about 16 clicks and $639 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 36 across its categories
- Named in
- 179 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 168 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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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 557 | 93 | 2026-09-29 | ITAM, FinOps | |
| News or press | 76 | 23 | 2026-09-23 | ITAM | |
| Podcast or video | 44 | 0 | 2025-09-30 | ||
| Report or ebook | 12 | 1 | 2026-07-15 | ||
| Comparison | 9 | 5 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Case study | 8 | 3 | 2026-07-22 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 8 | 3 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Template or tool | 7 | 1 | 2026-07-15 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 5 | 0 | 2026-06-18 | ||
| Conference or event | 5 | 1 | 2026-08-31 | ITAM |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Ai spend labor cost blog
- 2026-09-28Introducing okta actions with deprovisioning blog
- 2026-09-28Manage saas licenses with usage insights blog
- 2026-09-28Zylo tips using workflows to reclaim unused saas licenses blog
- 2026-09-28Saas offboarding automation blog
- 2026-09-23Ai inventory management blog
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Every page zylo.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 Zylo
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The company
Zylo is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The enterprise SaaS spend management platform trusted by leading companies to deliver visibility, cost control, and AI-powered optimization.
- For
- IT, Procurement, and FinOps leaders managing billions in software spend at the world’s largest and most innovative companies.
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type 2CCPACPRAGDPREU-US DPFBBB National Programs DPF Services
- Hosting
- US
- Customers named
- Hyatt CorporationFISThe Home DepotAdobeAbbVieIntuitSalesforceServiceNow
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations
What Zylo's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: zylo.com, zylo.com/pricing, trust.zylo.com, zylo.com/product/clarity-ai, zylo.com/case-studies. 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 Zylo'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 Zylo, 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 Zylo by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Zylo 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 Zylo, 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.