Grafana

By Grafana Labs

How often 10 AI models recommend Grafana, what they say about it, and who they recommend instead, on the 2 buying questions where it came up.

Mention rate

57%of all answers on these questions

Best standing

#1of 31 on Best observability tools

Buying questions

2where any model named it

Never named it

0of 10 models

Which models recommend it

Share of each model's answers that named it, at any position · The black tick marks the panel average

1. Qwen 3.8 Flash88%
2. Mistral Large 467%
3. DeepSeek V4 Pro63%
4. MiniMax M354%
5. Claude Haiku 5.550%
6. GPT-6 Luna50%
7. Gemini 4 Argon50%
8. GLM-5.350%
9. Kimi K350%
10. Nemotron 3 Ultra50%

Tracked since October 25, 2026. Each time the panel answers these questions again, the change shows here.

What the models say

Each model's one-line reason for recommending it, from its first answer

Best observability tools 10

• Claude Haiku 5.5Flexible open-source dashboards and alerting with a large plugin ecosystem.
• GPT-6 LunaFlexible open-source-based stack with strong dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces.
• Gemini 4 ArgonThe gold standard for customizable open-source visualization and unified data dashboarding.
• Qwen 3.8 FlashOpen-source standard, flexible LGTM stack
• DeepSeek V4 ProExceptional open-source visualization platform, highly extensible with Loki, Mimir, and Tempo.
• GLM-5.3Open-source visualization standard, flexible dashboards for any data source.
• Kimi K3Open-source visualization standard with flexible data source ecosystem.
• MiniMax M3Top open-source dashboards for metrics, logs, and traces.
• Mistral Large 4Open-source flexibility with powerful visualization and growing observability stack.
• Nemotron 3 UltraOpen-source roots, powerful visualization, Loki/Tempo/Pyroscope

Best business intelligence tools 1

• Qwen 3.8 FlashBest-in-class for observability/time-series dashboards, massive open-source base.

Against the competition

Each question's products ranked by the share of all answers that named them, Grafana highlighted.

Best observability tools

31 products named in 120 answers across 4 wordings

In nearly every answer

DatadogGrafanaNew RelicDynatraceHoneycomb

Contested

1. 6Elastic Observability81%
2. 7Sentry78%
3. 8Prometheus70%
4. 9Splunk63%
5. 10PagerDuty40%

Best business intelligence tools

21 products named in 120 answers across 4 wordings

In nearly every answer

Microsoft Power BITableauQlikLookerDomo

Contested

1. 6Sisense83%
2. 6ThoughtSpot83%
3. 8Metabase79%
4. 9Sigma Computing45%
5. 10Zoho Analytics42%
6. ⋯
7. 15Grafana14%

Mention rate by model and question

Share of each model's answers on the question that named it · Hover a cell for the count

Question	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Best observability tools	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Best business intelligence tools				75	25			8	33

Does the wording matter?

Share of answers that named it under each way of asking the question · Hover a cell for the exact wording

Question	List request	Buyer asking for advice	Search query	Worth paying for?
Best observability tools	100	100	100	100
Best business intelligence tools	17	20		20

Head to head

Against the products named most often on the same questions

Grafana vs DatadogGrafana vs Microsoft Power BIGrafana vs New RelicGrafana vs TableauGrafana vs QlikGrafana vs Looker

Compare with another product

Other Grafana Labs products: Grafana Loki

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